Chapter 16 Textbook Questions Flashcards
According to Hendrika Kemp,
the ethical codes of most counseling groups do not permit making special accommodations.
disability accommodation is not a significant issue for the vast majority of clients or therapists.
despite the obvious need, disability is not a standard part of clinical training for psychotherapists.
nearly all graduate psychotherapy-training programs provide training in disability accommodations.
despite the obvious need, disability is not a standard part of clinical training for psychotherapists.
Sexual contact between a therapist and client or patient is
appropriate when successful sexual performance will enhance the patient’s or client’s self-esteem.
understandable and acceptable if both parties desire a long-term relationship outside the professional or therapeutic setting.
never justified under any circumstance or with any rationale.
acceptable if the therapist is engaged in helping the patient overcome sexual problems and dysfunctions, but only as a secondary matter.
never justified under any circumstance or with any rationale.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
replaces the International Classification of Diseases published by the WHO.
has value as a reference work and a textbook of psychiatric disorders.
holds that its diagnoses are valid regardless of long-term cultural and societal changes.
encourages therapists to eschew “checklist” diagnoses.
has value as a reference work and a textbook of psychiatric disorders.
A therapist working with patients or clients of other cultures and cultural backgrounds must remember that
conditions that can be treated with medication should be medicated, regardless of the patient’s or client’s culture.
while multicultural sensitivity is important, the therapist should ignore the patient’s or client’s attitude toward the therapist’s culture in order to avoid countertransference.
when the therapist and patient or client come from the same general culture, specific differences no longer matter.
client or patient expectations are partially determined by the client’s or patient’s cultural background
client or patient expectations are partially determined by the client’s or patient’s cultural background
The Nuremberg Trials established that an individual who decided to violate a fundamental ethical responsibility
could do so without repercussion as long as he or she was following laws, orders, or regulations.
could not escape ethical accountability by trying to place all responsibility and agency on laws, orders, or regulations.
was justified in doing so as long as he or she could cite a higher ethical responsibility.
should be permitted to explain his or her justification and, if it is insufficient, be sent to a profession-specific ethics course
could not escape ethical accountability by trying to place all responsibility and agency on laws, orders, or regulations.
The “empirically supported therapies” movement
allows insurance providers to refuse to reimburse for therapies that do not meet statistical standards of success.
has been accepted by the majority of practicing therapists of all schools.
has been hampered by the complexities of the necessary research.
permits the most effective allocation of scarce resources.
has been hampered by the complexities of the necessary research.
The increased use of medications to treat psychological disorders was one factor that led psychologists to seek
restrictions on psychotropic medications.
a requirement for therapy when medication is prescribed.
prescriptive authority.
better training for psychiatrists
prescriptive authority.
The advantages of non–face-to-face therapies, such as those provided over the Internet, include
ensuring that therapy takes place during regular business hours.
providing therapy for people with mobility problems or in the final stages of terminal disease.
permitting therapists to treat patients or clients in states where the therapist is not licensed.
concentrating the availability of therapy within areas where most people live
providing therapy for people with mobility problems or in the final stages of terminal disease.
The American mental-health workforce is characterized by
a surplus of therapists in the Northeast and Southwest.
professional movement to restrict licensure to certified practitioners.
an increasing percentage of nonphysicians.
an increasing number of therapists who eschew technical eclecticism.
an increasing percentage of nonphysicians.
Which situation might be considered an ethically “acceptable” multiple relationship between therapist and patient or client?
Both live in a small town and are active in the same faith community.
The therapist is stopped for speeding by a state trooper who is also a patient; the therapist demands preferential treatment.
A family therapist is attracted to a patient’s teenage daughter and offers to help her with her college applications because she wants to go premed.
An extremely wealthy patient offers to provide the therapist with regular investment advice, asking nothing in return; the therapist knows that this will prevent her from guiding the patient to confront certain unpleasant facts about himself.
Both live in a small town and are active in the same faith community.
