According to the authors, a good training program encourages students to:
a. build on their life experiences and personal strengths and provides opportunities for expanding self-awareness.
b. emphasize skill training without consideration of personal development.
c. achieve a high enough GPA to pursue a doctorate.
d. specialize in one theory with the techniques and strategies that are unique to that theory.
Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to counselor competence?
a. Practitioners are required to practice within the boundaries of their competence.
b. Only when the therapist completes a doctoral program are they competent to practice with all specialties.
c. The practitioner can develop competency by working with professionals with more experience.
d. Conferences, workshops, and continuing education are means toward developing competency.
All of the following are true about bartering EXCEPT:
a. bartering can be a dignified and honorable form of payment for those who are cash poor but talented in otherways.
b. bartering is a healthy norm in many cultures.
c. bartering is illegal and unethical.
d. bartering can be part of a clearly articulated treatment plan; like other interventions, bartering must beconsidered in light of the client's needs, desires, situation, and cultural background.
Which of the following statements about giving or receiving gifts is FALSE?
a. Lavish gifts certainly present an ethical problem; yet, we can go too far in the direction of trying to be ethicaland actually damage the therapeutic relationship.
b. It is important to recognize when accepting a gift from a client is clinically contraindicated and that you bewilling to explore this with your client.
c. In working with culturally diverse client populations, clinicians often discover that they need to engage inboundary crossing to enhance the counseling relationship.
d. It could be more problematic to accept a gift at a later stage of a counseling relationship.
Which of the following is NOT a code of ethics in regards to sexual contact and the therapeutic relationship from various professional organizations?
a. Sexual intimacy with current clients, or their spouses or partners, is prohibited. Engaging in sexual intimacywith individuals who are known to be close relatives, guardians or significant others of current clients isprohibited.
b. Psychologists do not engage in sexual intimacies with current clients/patients; however, if a client/patient hasnot been treated within two years a relationship may become ethically approved.
c. Sexual or romantic counselor-client interactions or relationships with current clients or their family membersare prohibited.
d. Psychologists do not engage in sexual intimacies with individuals they know to be close relatives, guardians, orsignificant others of current clients/patients. Psychologists do not terminate therapy to circumvent thisstandard.
Neglecting to attend to family-of-origin issues can lead to __________ such as being attracted to clients.
a. blind spots
b. bartering
c. the ethical deterioration phenomenon
d. the slippery slope phenomenon
Which of the following is NOT a reason for discouraging the practice of accepting friends as clients or of becoming socially involved with clients?
a. Therapists may not be as challenging as they need to be with clients they know socially because of a need tobe liked and accepted by the client.
b. Therapists may be as effective with clients they know socially as they are with clients they have never metpreviously to the therapeutic relationship.
c. Counselors' own needs may be enmeshed with those of their clients to the point that objectivity is lost.
d. Counselors are at greater risk of exploiting clients because of the power differential in the therapeuticrelationship.
APA ethics codes offer three helpful criteria in making decisions about multiple relationships in a small community setting. These include each of the following EXCEPT:
a. risk of exploitation.
b. loss of therapist objectivity.
c. prospective multiple relationships fit into a single category.
d. harm to the professional relationship.
Few professional codes of ethics specifically address the topic of giving or receiving gifts in the therapeutic relationship. The AAMFT does have such a guideline and it states that marriage and family therapists:
a. cannot give to or receive from clients gifts of substantial value or that impair the integrity or efficacy of thetherapeutic relationship.
b. can give to or receive from clients small gifts of little monetary value.
c. can give to or receive from clients gifts when given during an appropriate and healthy therapeutic relationship.
d. cannot give or receive gifts under any circumstances.
The ethics codes of most professional organizations provide guidelines for the ethical practice of bartering. Some more recent codes (APA, NASW, AAMFT, and ACA):
a. state the practice of bartering is unethical no matter the circumstances.
b. take a more strict attitude increasing the punishment for practicing bartering.
c. state bartering should take place of payment; therefore, the therapeutic relationship can become moretrustworthy.
d. take a more flexible and less punitive attitude toward bartering.
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