Deck 2: Ethics, Multicultural Competence, Positive Psychology, and Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes

Question 1

"How does it feel, being a woman, to talk to me about this issue, as I am a man?" Discussing this issue is part of the ethical area of:

A)​informed consent.
B)​social justice.
C)​competence (boundaries).
D)privilege.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Counselors practice only within the boundaries of their competence based on:

A)​education and training.
B)​supervised and appropriate professional experience.
C)​state and national professional credentials.
D)all of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following professional organizations have published ethical standards?

A)​American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) Code of Ethics
B)​American Psychological Association (APA) Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
C)​American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics
D)all of these.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Informed consent refers to:

A)​providing clients with clear and adequate information about what is happening in the interview and informing them about your own competence.
B)​telling the client halfway through the interview about their rights.
C)​too many people avoiding this critical issue.
D)honestly discussing multicultural differences between the counselor and client.

Question 5

Ethical codes aid the helping process by:

A)​teaching and promoting the basics of ethical and appropriate practice.
B)​serving as a mechanism to improve practice.
C)​protecting clients by providing accountability.
D)all of the above

Question 6

Which of the following statements is NOT true of multicultural competence?

A)​Every skill, strategy, and helping theory is examined for its cultural appropriateness.
B)​Interviewers learn their own limitations in cultural expertise and seek supervision as necessary.
C)Multicultural competence helps professionals specialize and become proficient in single culture counseling and therapy.
D)Multicultural competence helps professionals make a lifelong commitment to learning the multicultural base of practice.

Question 7

As it relates to client rights and informed consent, which one of the following statements is FALSE?

A)​Throughout the counseling process, as appropriate, counselors must inform clients of goals, techniques, limitations, risks, and benefits.
B)​Clients have the right to participate in counseling planning and the right to refuse services.
C)​Clients are informed of the therapy plan outlined by an experienced therapist and follow it with little deviation.
D)Counselors must make sure clients understand the limits of confidentiality​.

Question 8

Which of the following is an ethical imperative when you are a trainee meeting with a new client for the first time?

A)​Prepare for the session carefully, and go over your plan with the supervisor.
B)​Review ethical standards and agency policy.
C)​Inform your client that you are in training, and give the client the supervisor's name.
D)Work with the policy of your agency on this issue, and only inform the client if that is their policy.

Question 9

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the power relationship between client and counselor?

A)​Human services professionals are aware that in their relationship with clients, power and status are equal.
B)​Power aspects of dual or multiple relationships may impair professional judgment.
C)​The very act of helping has power implications.
D)Awareness of and openness to talking about power issues is an appropriate way to improve client relations.

Question 10

Counselors should practice only within the boundaries of:

A)​competence.
B)​education, training, and supervision.
C)​professional credentials and appropriate professional experience.
D)all of the above

Question 11

Multicultural competence focuses on:​

A)​awareness, knowledge, skills, and actions required for all practice, research, and training.
B)​ethical statements for effective multicultural work.
C)​an adopted set of absolute rules for counselors and psychologists.
D)culturally specific treatment methods.

Question 12

Naming:

A)​is basic to work with traumatized clients.
B)​helps rewire brain networks in more positive ways.
C)​can help client identify biased or racist actions or situations.
D)all of these.

Question 13

Interviewers need to have "education and training, supervised experience, state and national professional credentials, and appropriate professional experience." This ethical standard relates primarily to:

A)​competence.
B)​informed consent.
C)​confidentiality.
D)diversity.

Question 14

When you observe and practice ethically and follow professional standards, you can anticipate:

A)​more liability in your practice.
B)​the client will recognize your position of power within the relationship.
C)​increased client trust and understanding in the interview process.
D)negative issues of social justice because justice is blind.

Question 15

Interviewers can predict that both they and their clients will appreciate, gain respect, and learn from increasing knowledge in intersecting identities, the nature of privilege, and multicultural competence when the interviewer ________.

A)​is an educated, qualified, and experienced professional
B)​bases her behavior on an ethical approach with an awareness of diversity
C)​is competent to address any and all multicultural issues
D)stays within the boundaries of multicultural guidelines and practice competencies

Question 16

HIPAA is the acronym for:

A)​Health Incorporated for Patients Assistance for Allstate.
B)​Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
C)​Health Insurance for Patients from All Alliances.
D)Health Insurance Provided by Allstate to All.

Question 17

When does the counselor inform the client of purposes, goals, techniques, procedures, limitations, potential risks, and benefits of the counseling process?

A)​At the beginning of the counseling relationship
B)​After the client agrees to a counseling relationship
C)​Every other session without fail
D)During informed consent and at any time when conditions change or new issues are discovered

Question 18

Ethical codes promote professional empowerment by assisting professionals and professionals-in-training to:

A)​maintain good practices.
B)​protect the client.
C)​consider the social context of helping.
D)all of these.

Question 19

Informed consent means:

A)​informing your clients about your training, background, and possible dual relationships.
B)​going over the purposes, goals, limitations, and possible benefits of counseling.
C)​obtaining permission to audiotape an interview.
D)all of the above

Question 20

The need for appropriate supervision most pertains to which ethical area?

A)​Competence
B)​Informed consent
C)​Confidentiality
D)Power

Question 21

The prime storehouse of positive emotions is the:

A)​thalamus.
B)​amygdala.
C)​cingulate cortex.
D)frontal cortex.

Question 22

Emphasis on positives within counseling, human services, psychology, and social work may be known by all EXCEPT which of the following terms?

A)​Positive psychology
B)​Concrete theoretical approach
C)​Wellness approach
D)Positive asset search

Question 23

Which of the following is NOT part of optimism?

A)​A trust that things will work out
B)​A sense of personal weakness
C)​A belief that you will learn from difficulties
D)A belief in the future

Question 24

Which of the following is NOT true regarding a strength-based wellness model?

A)​The model builds on the client's strengths and assets.
B)​The model emphasizes the individual origin of symptoms.
C)​The model leads to a more egalitarian and empathic relationship in the counseling.
D)The model places the client in the role of an active and engaged agent.

Question 25

The third multicultural guideline and competency is to develop skills and action to cope with the results of discrimination and build cultural health. Which one of the following contributes to your ability to develop appropriate intervention strategies and techniques?​

A)​Create respect and trust by remaining politically correct at all times.
B)​Expand your knowledge with traditional strategies and newer, diversity sensitive methods.
C)​Use traditional counseling strategies proven appropriate over time.
D)Just sitting with the client.

Question 26

Which of the following is TRUE?

A)​Resilience is the actual ability to bounce back from difficulty.
B)​Optimism is the actual ability to bounce back from difficulty.
C)​Resilience is the imagined ability to bounce back from difficulty.
D)Optimism is not related to resilience.

Question 27

"I can go shopping alone most of the time, pretty well assured that I will not be followed or harassed." This is an example of:

A)​White privilege.
B)​heterosexual privilege.
C)​middle-class privilege.
D)male privilege.

Question 28

"If I were to move, I can be pretty sure that I can rent or purchase housing in an area that I can afford and in which I want to live." This is an example of:

A)​White privilege.
B)​heterosexual privilege.
C)​male privilege.
D)religious privilege

Question 29

"I have enough financial reserves that I can handle a major car problem without a large financial crisis." This is an example of:

A)​White privilege.
B)​heterosexual privilege.
C)​middle-class privilege.
D)male privilege.

Question 30

Which of the following statements best describes the application of therapeutic lifestyle changes?

A)​It is important to focus on and resolve client problems, issues and concerns; it is the reason they choose counseling.
B)​Counseling, human services, psychology, and social work have a long tradition of helping clients solve problems.
C)​Locate the ways clients cope with anxiety and stress, already existing resources that may be enlarged once their existence is recognized.
D)The field of psychology emphasizes the disease model and focuses on damage repair.

Question 31

"I am not taught to fear walking alone after dark in average public places." This is an example of:

A)​White privilege.
B)​heterosexual privilege.
C)​middle-class privilege.
D)male privilege.

Question 32

Which of the following is the first step in the development of an intentional wellness plan?

A)​Summarizing wellness strengths
B)​Appraising areas for improvement
C)​Establishing one or two goals
D)Contracting for action

Question 33

Paying attention to strengths in the client involves all EXCEPT which of the following language systems?

A)​Positive psychology
B)​Wellness approach
C)​Positive asset search
D)Drawing out the client's story fully and carefully

Question 34

"Multicultural Guidelines and Competencies, Dimension 1: Be aware of your own assumptions, values, and biases." Based on this, which of the following contributes to your ability to become more self-aware?

A)​Develop a specialty practice by immersing yourself in every detail of daily life of one or two cultural groups at a time.
B)​Consider yourself as a cultural being and recognize your own limitations.
C)​Rather than consider each client as unique, focus on the common behaviors that the person before you may have in common with the cultural group to which they belong.
D)Achieve complete multicultural knowledge through study and experience.

Question 35

Past research has found that ____________ percent of minority clients do NOT return to counseling after a first session?

A)​10%
B)​20%
C)​35%
D)50%

Question 36

Awareness, knowledge, skills, and action are:

A)​essential to master counseling skills.
B)​key components of Ivey, Ivey, and Zalaquett's teaching model.
C)​critical to work effectively with clients different from you.
D)all of these.

Question 37

"If I am promoted, I can be confident that my coworkers won't think it was because of my gender." This is an example of:

A)​socioeconomic privilege.
B)​White privilege.
C)​female privilege.
D)male privilege.

Question 38

Mark Pope, Cherokee Nation and Past-President of the American Counseling Association, noted all EXCEPT which of the following?

A)​Counselors are now being trained fully to meet multicultural competencies.
B)​We are all committed to the dignity and value of each individual.
C)​Each of us is a multicultural being.
D)We need to address our own issues of prejudice.

Question 39

"Multicultural Guidelines and Competencies: Dimension 2: Understand the worldview of the culturally different client." According to this, which of the following contributes to your ability to comprehend the worldview of diverse clients?

A)​By applying traditional approaches to counseling theory and skills, you will achieve similar results to all cultural groups.
B)​Your study and experiences will enhance your confidence in cross-cultural counseling.
C)​If you hold inaccurate stereotypes, you must listen and learn respect for how your client interprets humanity and the world.
D)The impact of socioeconomic factors and other oppressive forces may vary some among cultural groups, but overall the impact is similar.

Question 40

Multicultural competence includes:

A)​awareness.
B)​knowledge.
C)​skills.
D)all of the above.

Question 41

How can we ensure that counselors and interviewer become multiculturally competent? What specific areas do you see for yourself as needing further growth? How will you address these issues?

Question 42

List and describe the four guidelines of multicultural competence described in the book.

Question 43

Positive thoughts, used effectively in counseling, can override negative feelings.

Question 44

How could you use the RESPECTFUL model to enhance your multicultural skills?

Question 45

Multiculturalism refers to more than race and ethnicity. The RESPECTFUL model expands the definition of difference. Which of the following is included in the 10 dimensions of difference defined by the RESPECTFUL model?

A)​Sexual identity
B)​Trauma
C)​Location of residence
D)All of these

Question 46

What is White privilege? Middle-class privilege? Male privilege? Please give two examples of each.

Question 47

If anything, informed consent when working with children is ___________________.

A)​not an issue when you work in a well-organized school system
B)​perhaps even more important than with adults
C)​a concern to parents
D)all of these

Question 48

Political correctness is a way to describe something with minimal offense.

Question 49

Worldview is formally defined as the way you and your client interpret humanity and the world.

Question 50

Awareness, knowledge, and skills are meaningless unless you act.

Question 51

Exercise is a recommended preventive treatment for:

A)​obesity.
B)​cancer.
C)​slowing onset of Alzheimer's.
D)all of these.

Question 52

Developing awareness, knowledge, and skills is all you need to be an effective counselor.​

Question 53

"Do no harm to your clients; treat them responsibly with full awareness of the social context of helping" summarizes the essence of ethical codes.