From a legal perspective, mental health professionals are expected to_______________ clients who are exploring the option of abortion, and if they fail to do so, clients can take legal action against them for negligence.
a. impose their own values on
b. exercise reasonable care with
c. self disclose about their personal experiences with making difficult decisions with
d. impose the counseling professions values on
Q. 2When contemplating whether or not to refer a client, helping professionals should keep which of the following points in mind?
a. It can be very burdensome to clients to be saddled with their therapists disclosure of not being able to get beyond value differences.
b. Disagreeing with a client or not liking what a client is proposing to do is ethical grounds for a referral.
c. Counseling entails working with clients within the framework of the counselors value system; thus, clients whose values differ from their counselors values need to take the initiative to ask for a referral.
d. The authors believe that referrals are not made often enough.
Q. 3Research has provided evidence that therapists values influence the following phase(s) of psychotherapy:
a. the theories of personality and therapeutic change
b. assessment strategies
c. goals of treatment
d. evaluation of therapy outcomes
e. all of the above
Q. 4____________________________ means ending ones life earlier than would have happened without intervention. It involves speeding up the dying process, which can entail withholding or withdrawing treatment or life support.
a. Rational suicide
b. Irrational suicide
c. Hastened death
d. Aid-in-Dying
Q. 5Counselors can influence their clients values by:
a. paying attention and reinforcing certain aspects of what their clients disclose.
b. their nonverbal behavior.
c. asking leading questions.
d. all of the above
Q. 6The imposition of a counselors values on a client is:
a. illegal.
b. generally considered unethical.
c. both illegal and unethical.
d. necessary when the client's values are in conflict with the counselor's values.
Q. 7To the question Is it possible for counselors to keep their values out of their counseling sessions? the authors take the position that:
a. it is possible for counselors to be neutral with respect to values in the counseling relationship.
b. it is desirable for counselors to be value neutral.
c. it is neither possible nor desirable for counselors to be neutral with respect to values in the counseling relationship.
d. counselors should keep their values hidden so that they wont contaminate their clients choices.
e. it is the counselors job to influence their clients to adopt healthier values.
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