Exam 8: Professional Competence and Training

Barriers to dismissing a student who demonstrates dysfunctional interpersonal behavior from a training program include all of the following EXCEPT:

A school counselor was working with Quan, whose presenting problem was anxiety pertaining to academic success in college. This was within the scope of the school counselor's training. However, during the course of therapy,______________________Quan became very depressed and engaged in self­mutilation and other forms of self­destructive behavior. Quan's counselor recognized that these symptoms and behaviors reflected a problem area that was outside the scope of his practice. Ethical practice required that the school counselor:

If each professional organization developed specific guidelines pertaining to students' successful completion of a program, faculty in training programs:

According to the American Counseling Association, counselors practice only within the boundaries of their competence, based on:

When a practitioner has a license, he or she is:

Continuing professional education is important because:

______________________is an organized system by which practitioners within a profession assess one another's services.

From an ethical perspective, counselor educators and trainers are expected to present varied theoretical positions. Training programs would do well to offer students:

Students should be advised as early as possible if their behavior is problematic, and:

Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to counselor competence?

According to the American School Counseling Association, in order to apply our knowledge and skills competently:

To qualify as a substance abuse counselor, the CACREP (2009) standards identify specific knowledge, skills, and practices in all of the following areas EXCEPT:

According to the authors, a good training program encourages students to:

When therapists extend the boundaries of their practice, or when they branch out into an area requiring specialty competence, they should:

______________________statutes determine and govern professional practice.

The skills and training required to effectively and appropriately treat clients in a specific area of practice, and is both an ethical and legal concept, is the definition for:

Referring clients to other professionals is:

Most professional organizations support efforts to:

As a part of the process of screening candidates for a therapist training program, counselor educators should complete all of the following EXCEPT:

In , the court held that a faculty may require students to complete special requirements as long as the requirements are not arbitrary.