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COUC 501 (1)
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COUC 501A firm grounding in the area of professional orientation includes 3 main components:
-developing a professional identity
-learning about ethics and
-learning about the ____ as it applies to counseling
*Developing a professional identity as a counselor: understanding the history, knowing the
professional roles, learning about becoming involved, gaining awareness of credentials,
knowing how to advocate for your clients, and developing _____ in your profession. - ANS-law
pride
Moral behavior is based on our values, or personal belief system.
Values are influenced by upbringing and culture.
_________: set aside persona lvalues within the counseling relationship.
Professional values include honoring ________, promoting social justice, safeguarding the
integrity of the counselor-client relationship.
Ethics: a discipline concerned with ___________ and moral decision making. Ethics prevail over
personal values.
Law is different from morality or ethics. Laws must be followed. Laws dictate __________
standards of behavior, whereas ethics pertain to a wider range of professional functioning. -
ANS-Bracket
diversity
conduct
minimum
Learning about ethics: becoming familiar with ethical standards, understanding ethical issues,
developing ethical reasoning and decision making ________. - ANS-skills
-Many questions are _________and depend on the situation. Not black and white.
-We are either contributing to the welfare and good and wellbeing or we are not. -
ANS-ambiguous
A counselor at a community agency decides to start a group for women recovering from sexual
abuse. On the first group meeting, the counselor hands out the informed consent form but
rushes the members to sign the form without reviewing. The counselor reviews the benefits of
,group but worries reviewing risks will cause the members to feel anxious or frightened and drop
out of group before they experience the benefits. She plans to review the risks on the third
session.
A)Veracity
b)Autonomy
C)Justice
D)Beneficence
E) Fidelity
A master's level counseling student is feeling overwhelmed due to having a major paper. She
has worked overtime for the past two weeks and her oldest child has a stomach virus, limiting
the time she has to spend on researching and writing the paper. In a panic, she goes online and
finds an online service that, for a small fee, will provide her sections of the paper, guaranteeing
the information w - ANS-A, B, F
A marriage counselor has been working with a couple for the past six months. The couple
started counseling to decide whether they wanted to continue in the marriage or divorce. The
counselor believes that marriage should be for life. He has helped the couple see the roots of
their unhappiness in the marriage, as well as, the benefits and consequences of remaining
married or divorcing. One day the couple walks in and tells the counselor they have decided to
move forward with a divorce. The counselor begins to tell the couple all the reasons they should
not divorce and how their choice is wrong.
A)Veracity
b)Nonmaleficence
C)Justice
D)Autonomy
E)Fidelity
A counselor is leaving her employment at a community mental health clinic to take another job.
In preparation for leaving, she tells all her clients that she will be leaving and her last date at the
agency will be May 1. Two weeks before her May 1 date of departure, t - ANS-D, B
A client initially comes into counseling worried that she might be bipolar like her mother and
states several times that, "If I am bipolar, it will ruin my life!" The counselor assesses the client
and administers a test that also assesses for bipolar. Both the counselor's assessment and the
results show that the client is bipolar. Four weeks later, the client requests to see the results of
her assessment. The counselor refuses to release the results telling the client the results were
not conclusive.
A)Veracity
B)Autonomy
C)Fidelity
D)Nonmaleficence
E) Justice
,An experienced career counselor works for a community agency that covers a broad range of
services to clients. Two clients come in to see the counselor. The first client is a respected
member of the community and is a department head in the local government. The second client
is a part time employee at a factory who has had several arrests and is well known in - ANS-A,
B, D
From the perspective of principle ethics, a counselor who is counseling a client planning a
violent act against another person, and who intervenes to notify the client's family members is:
A)sacrificing client autonomy in order to prevent harm and to do good.
b)sacrificing fidelity in order to be truthful.
C)sacrificing justice in order to be faithful to promises made.
D)sacrificing veracity in order to protect the client's anonymity.
E) sacrificing beneficence in order to promote fidelity.
Virtue ethicists believe that:
A)to determine whether a counselor is ethical, each decision the counselor makes must be
carefully weighed.
b)that moral choices cannot be made by rule; what is needed instead is good judgment.
C)actions speak louder than words.
D)counselors should always be truthful.
Law and ethics differ from one another in that:
A) laws dictate minimum standards of behavior that society will tolerate, whereas e - ANS-A, B,
A, C, A
At their most fundamental level, codes of ethics serve to:
A) protect and promote the welfare of the client.
b)protect and promote the welfare of the counselor.
C)protect and promote the welfare of the profession.
D)protect and promote the welfare of the counselor's agency.
E) protect and promote the welfare of the client's family unit.
The personal values of counselors:
A) have no place in the counseling session.
B)should be completely altruistic.
C) are influenced by their families of origin and their cultures, among other factors.
D)are rooted in universal moral principles.
E)should prevail over ethics when there is a conflict between the counselor's values and the
client's behavior.
While principle ethics asks the question "What should I do?," virtue ethics asks the question:
A) "What would an ethical counselor do?"
B)"What should counselors who want the follow the law do?"
, C)"Who should I be?"
D)"Who am I?"
E) - ANS-A, C,C,D, B
Counselors who practice from a developmental perspective:
A)focus on the physical development of their clients because physical development has a
significant impact on the emotional well-being of clients.
B)focus on the intellectual development of their clients because clients must be taught to
understand themselves in order to function more effectively.
C)see personal development as a difficult goal to attain and requires the help of counselors who
understand the human condition.
D)view most problems people encounter as natural and normal since all developmental stages
of life bring challenges.
E)believe that all stages of life traumatize clients and, thus, the counselor's role is to treat the
trauma their clients have experienced.
The most significant problem within the counseling profession today, according to the authors of
the text, appears to be:
A)receiving third party reimbursement.
B)increasing salaries for - ANS-D, C, D, D, E
All of the following are steps toward professionalization EXCEPT:
A)getting state laws passed that regulate the practice of the profession.
B)changing names to reduce identification with other professions.
C)developing a code of ethics.
D)requiring members of the profession to possess specialized knowledge and skills.
E)offering services that are identical to services offered by other similar professions.
Within the counseling profession, the primary goal of counseling is to:
A)help clients achieve wellness.
B)cure illnesses of clients.
C)identify and treat mental illnesses.
D)understand the illnesses with which clients present for counseling.
E)help clients understand unresolved emotional issues.
Counselors with a strong professional identity are able to do all of the following EXCEPT:
A)describe the services their profession renders to the public.
B)articulate the similarities and differences between their profes - ANS-E, A, D, A, C
To be effective when counseling clients with physical disabilities, counselors should:
A)focus on the clients' adjustment to disability.
B)take a more directive, behavioral approach in working with the clients.
C)refer these clients to a rehabilitation counselor.
D)focus on the clients' abilities rather than limitations.
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