Which of the following is a primary legal, moral, or ethical issue affecting the therapist-client relationship?
a. The therapist's obligation to avoid sexual intimacies with clients
b. The therapists' obligation to avoid charging excessive fees to indigent clients
c. The therapist's duty to notify others of past harm or violence
d. The therapist's obligation to maintain a regular schedule during business hours
Question 2Which elderly person is at highest risk for developing some type of dementia?
a. Paige, a 89 year old female c. Patty, a 65 year old depressed female
b. Paul, a 60 year old male d. Preston, a 70 year old depressed male
Question 3Lillian is considering going to a psychotherapist but has a fear that a male therapist might engage in sexual behavior with her. Then she reads the ethical principles of the national psychiatry, psychology, and social work organizations and finds that ___.
a. all professional organizations condemn and prohibit sexual behavior between therapist and client
b. none of the organizations directly condemns or prohibits sexual behavior between therapist and client
c. social work condemns sexual behavior between therapist and client, but psychiatry and psychology have taken no position on this issue
d. psychiatry and psychology condemn sexual behavior between therapist and client, but social work has taken no position on this issue
Question 4Late on Saturday night, Dennie is taken to the hospital after drinking twenty beers. His confusion, rambling, and incoherent speech stop as soon as the alcohol is out of his system. This incident illustrates ____.
a. an amnestic disorder
b. dementia
c. delirium
d. a neurocognitive disorder not otherwise specified
Question 5Dr. Sheffield has found that forcing his patients to take medication has caused a problem with being able to treat them effectively. This problem is likely to be that ____.
a. patients who are forced to take medication tend to become overmedicated and can't focus on therapy
b. he becomes so exhausted from forcing treatment on the patients that his own personal resources become depleted and he can't focus on their therapy
c. it is illegal in all cases to force treatment on anyone who is unwilling to embrace it
d. patients who are forced into treatment seem to resist it, which nullifies the potentially beneficial effects of therapy
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