Exam 6: Confidentiality: Ethical and Legal Issues

In , a Supreme Court decision ruled that communications between licensed psychotherapists and their clients are privileged and therefore protected from forced disclosure in cases arising under federal law.

______________________is at the core of effective therapy; it is the counselor's ethical duty to protect private client communication.

Which of the following would be an ineffective way of managing a client's suicidal ideation?

In Chapter 6, a six-step ethical practice model for protecting confidentiality rights that places legal mandates in an ethical context is presented. The six steps include all of the following EXCEPT:

Even if clients argue that they can do what they want with their own lives, including taking them, therapists with suicidal clients have a legal:

An African-American woman was interacting with her child in a domestic abuse shelter when she is over-heard saying to her child, "Keep touching that and I'm going to whoop you." The social worker that heard this statement should:

The following are all major types of elder abuse EXCEPT:

Schools that receive federal funding are generally bound by the provisions of the:

______________________was passed by Congress to promote standardization and efficiency in the health care industry and to give patients more rights and control over their health information

Privileged communication does NOT apply in cases of:

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that a physician has a duty to take reasonable care to prevent a potentially dangerous patient from inflicting harm in:

All of the following pose a number of potential ethical problems with regard to protecting client privacy EXCEPT:

The basic standard of care for school counselors is clear; courts have uniformly held that:

Jolene tells her counselor that she is depressed about the break-up of her relationship and "just wishes she could go to sleep and never wake up." In this case, the counselor needs to:

______________________is designed to encourage reporting of any suspected cases of child, elder, or dependent adult abuse; thus, therapists are advised to err on the side of reporting in uncertain circumstances.

There are three types of : health plans, health care clearinghouses, and health care providers who transmit health information by electronic means.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule was designed to provide a uniform level of privacy and security on the federal level. This Privacy Rule, which applies to both paper and electronic transmissions of protected health information by covered entities, developed out of the concern that transmission of health care information through electronic means could lead to widespread gaps in the protection of client confidentiality. Which of the following is NOT a requirement of The Privacy Rule?

Which of the following is NOT identified in the text as a guideline for counselors using the telephone?

Most counseling centers and community mental health agencies now have guidelines regarding the duty to warn and protect when the welfare of others is at stake. These guidelines generally specify how to deal with:

In this court case, the court found that school counselors have a duty to use reasonable means to attempt to prevent a suicide when they know about a student's suicidal intentions. The reasoning of the court was that an adolescent is more likely to share thoughts of suicide with friends than with a school counselor, teacher, or parent. The court found that reasonable care would have included notifying the student's parents that their daughter was at risk for suicide.