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NCE Exam - Professional Orientation and Ethics
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers for
Accuracy
Which group has been most instrumental in opposing
counselor licensure?
✓✓ Psychologists
NBCC
✓✓ National Board for Certified Counselors, formed in 1982,
awards the NCC generic credential.
NCC
✓✓ National Certified Counselor
Good for 5 years with 100 hours of professional development.
(Passing the NCE will get a counselor this certification.)
ACA
✓✓ American Counseling Association
(used to be the American Personnel and Guidance Association
[AACD])
CCMHA
✓✓ Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor
(Must get NCC credential first.)
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NCSC
✓✓ National Certified School Counselor
(Must get NCC credential first.)
Scope of practice
✓✓ Counselors should only practice using techniques for which
they have been trained.
Ethical guidelines
✓✓ First created in 1953 by the American Psychological
Association (APA),
National Assoc. of Social Workers (NASW) created theirs in
1960,
ACA created theirs in 1961.
Ethics always describe standards of conduct imposed by ____
and ______.
✓✓ ACA and NBCC.
Ethics define standards of behavior set forth by organizations
and certification bodies, they are not usually
✓✓ state or federally mandated laws.
Most ethical dilemmas are related to ______.
✓✓ Confidentiality
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Confidentiality
✓✓ implies the counselor will not reveal anything about a
client unless he is given specific authorization to do so.
(Confidentiality is relative to the situation as far as counselors
go [legally].)
Most ethical dilemmas are related to _________.
✓✓ confidentiality
ACA indicates counselors have an obligation to protect the
confidentiality of the deceased and this should be stated clearly
in your ______ ______ document given to the client at the
beginning of treatment.
✓✓ informed consent
Should counselors attend a funeral of a client?
✓✓ Ask self if whether beneficial (same as attending a
wedding), and if attending, document date, time, basis for
decision.
Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of the Univ. of California
✓✓ 'Duty to Warn' someone in imminent danger.
(Case where client threatened in session, later killed her - her
family sued, state court denied [Tarasoff I] but appealed and
won in Supreme Court [Tarasoff II].)
Duty to warn
NCE Exam - Professional Orientation and Ethics
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers for
Accuracy
Which group has been most instrumental in opposing
counselor licensure?
✓✓ Psychologists
NBCC
✓✓ National Board for Certified Counselors, formed in 1982,
awards the NCC generic credential.
NCC
✓✓ National Certified Counselor
Good for 5 years with 100 hours of professional development.
(Passing the NCE will get a counselor this certification.)
ACA
✓✓ American Counseling Association
(used to be the American Personnel and Guidance Association
[AACD])
CCMHA
✓✓ Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor
(Must get NCC credential first.)
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
NCSC
✓✓ National Certified School Counselor
(Must get NCC credential first.)
Scope of practice
✓✓ Counselors should only practice using techniques for which
they have been trained.
Ethical guidelines
✓✓ First created in 1953 by the American Psychological
Association (APA),
National Assoc. of Social Workers (NASW) created theirs in
1960,
ACA created theirs in 1961.
Ethics always describe standards of conduct imposed by ____
and ______.
✓✓ ACA and NBCC.
Ethics define standards of behavior set forth by organizations
and certification bodies, they are not usually
✓✓ state or federally mandated laws.
Most ethical dilemmas are related to ______.
✓✓ Confidentiality
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
Confidentiality
✓✓ implies the counselor will not reveal anything about a
client unless he is given specific authorization to do so.
(Confidentiality is relative to the situation as far as counselors
go [legally].)
Most ethical dilemmas are related to _________.
✓✓ confidentiality
ACA indicates counselors have an obligation to protect the
confidentiality of the deceased and this should be stated clearly
in your ______ ______ document given to the client at the
beginning of treatment.
✓✓ informed consent
Should counselors attend a funeral of a client?
✓✓ Ask self if whether beneficial (same as attending a
wedding), and if attending, document date, time, basis for
decision.
Tarasoff v. Board of Regents of the Univ. of California
✓✓ 'Duty to Warn' someone in imminent danger.
(Case where client threatened in session, later killed her - her
family sued, state court denied [Tarasoff I] but appealed and
won in Supreme Court [Tarasoff II].)
Duty to warn
