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Ethics
Question | Answer |
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Autonomy | the promotion of self-determination, or the freedom of clients to be self-governing |
nonmaleficence | avoiding doing harm |
beneficence | doing good for others and working to promote the wellbeing of clients |
justice | being fair by giving equally to others and to treat others justly |
fidelity | professionals make realistic commitments and keep these promises. |
transference | is the process whereby clients project on their therapists past feelings or attitudes toward significant people in their lives |
countertransference | any projections by therapists that distort the way they perceive and react to a client |
signs of therapist decay | an absence of boundaries with client, poor health habits, resisting personal therapy when experiencing personal distress |
value imposition | counselors directly attempt to influence a client to adopt the counselors' values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors |
rational suicide | means that a person has decided- after going through a decision making process and without coersion from others to end his or her life because of extreme suffering from a terminal illness |
aid-in-dying | consists of providing a person with the means to die; the person self-administers the death-causing agent |
hastened death | means ending one's life earlier than would have happened without intervention can entail withholding or withdrawing treatment |
culturally encapsulate counselor | fails to evaluate other viewpoints, makes little attempt to accommodate behavior of others |
cultural pluralism | perspective that recognizes complexity of cultures and values diversity of beliefs |
(ACA A.10.e) when determining whether to accept a client gift counselors should take into account | therapeutic relationship, monetary value, client's motivation, counselor's motivation for wanting or declining gift |
informed consent for counseling group members should include | nature, purpose, goals of group; potential risks; confidentiality and its exceptions; leader's theoretical orientation; roles of members and leaders; freedom to withdraw (unless mandated to attend by law) |
possible risks of therapeutic groups include | leader's misuse of power; inappropriate self-disclosure; inability to maintain confidentiality; scapegoating |
privileged communication means professional counselors cannot break the confidence of clients unless | 1) the client is likely to do serious harm to self, others or physical property 2) child or elder abuse is suspected 3) court order 4)supervisory role requires it 5) clients give written permission |
In regards to confidentiality group leaders should | maintain it themselves and encourage group members to maintain it although they cannot guarantee other group member will do so |
group leaders must familiarize themselves with state and local particularly those | laws pertaining to child molestation, neglect of abuse of children or elderly |
Group members should be informed that absolute ___________ is not possible in groups so they can decide what they are willing to disclose. | confidentiality |
According to the ACA counselors have a duty to be aware of their own values, attitude, behaviors and beliefs and avoid | imposing values that are inconsistent with counseling goals |