Deck 6: Legal and Ethical Implications

Question 1

The ethical standard set by the profession that refers to the counselor's promise to keep what is said private is:

A) Privileged communication
B) Autonomy
C) Confidentiality
D) Veracity

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Duty to warn refers to the counselor's responsibility to breach confidentiality in all of the following situations except:

A) A client has a plan to commit suicide
B) A client has a plan to harm another person
C) A court orders you to release counseling records
D) A client displays high levels of depression

Answer 2

D

Question 3

This ethical decision-making model is the most prominent found in literature and is based on five moral principles:

A) Kitchener's Model
B) Social Justice Model
C) Rest's Model
D) Social Constructivist Model

Answer 3

A

Question 4

The process that involves helping the client understand his or her right to receive or refuse counseling services, to understand what counseling involves, and to comprehend the possible consequences of involvement is referred to as:

A) Confidentiality
B) Informed consent
C) Privileged communication
D) Nonmaleficence

Question 5

This precedent-setting court decision ruled that parents of minors do not have an absolute right to the counseling records of their child or the exclusive right to assert or waive the therapist-client privilege on this child's behalf:

A) Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
B) Harder v. Anderson, Arnold, Dickey, Jensen, Gullickson, Sanger, and Pini
C) In the matter of Kathleen Quigley Berg and Eugene E. Berg
D) Johnson v. Krisoff