Chapter 2 (ethics, MC, Neuroscience, + psych, resilience)

Question 1

When you observe and practice ethically and follow professional standards, you can expect

a. more liability in your practice.	
b. client recognition of your power position within the relationship.	
c. prevention of negative issues of social justice.	
d. increased client trust.

Answer 1

d. increased client trust.

Question 2

Which of the following represents one of the most important issues for beginning therapists?

a. Referral	
b. Documentation	
c. Multicultural competence	
d. Billing

Answer 2

c. Multicultural competence

Question 3

Informed consent refers to

a. providing clients with clear and adequate information throughout counseling.
b. telling the client halfway through the interview about their rights.
c. counselors needing to understand clients before treating them.
d. honestly discussing multicultural difference between counselor and client.

Answer 3

a. providing clients with clear and adequate information throughout counseling.

Question 4

A counselor who recommends that a client engage in increased exercise, better nutrition, meditation, and helping others all with the goal of helping the client feel better about himself or herself is taking an approach known as __________.

a. humanistic counseling	
b. therapeutic lifestyle change	
c. behavior modification	
d. dialectical behavior therapy

Answer 4

b. therapeutic lifestyle change

Question 5

Positive emotions are stored in the

a. frontal cortex.	
b. amygdala.	
c. cingulate cortex.	
d. thalamus.

Answer 5

a. frontal cortex.

Question 6

Multicultural guidelines and competencies expound on three dimensions. The first dimension is awareness: Be aware of your own assumptions, values, and biases. Which one of the following would contribute to your ability to become more self-aware?

a. Develop a specialty practice by immersing yourself in every detail of daily life for one or two cultural groups at a time.
b. Consider yourself as a cultural being and recognize your own limitations.
c. Rather than consider each client as unique, focus on the common behaviors that the person may have in common with the cultural group to which they belong.
d. Demonstrate complete multicultural competence through time, study, and experience.

Answer 6

b. Consider yourself as a cultural being and recognize your own limitations.

Question 7

What is the following an example of? “If I should move, I can be pretty sure that I can rent or purchase housing in an area that I can afford and in which I want to live.”

a. White privilege	
b. Heterosexual privilege	
c. Male privilege	
d. Christian privilege

Answer 7

a. White privilege

Question 8

According to Seligman’s research, the most essential aspect of a satisfying life is

a. wealth.	
b. family.	
c. meaning.	
d. health.

Answer 8

c. meaning.

Question 9

Research conducted with individuals diagnosed with depressive disorders indicates that, after one year, those who __________ received as much benefit as did those who took medication.

a. ate healthy, organic diets
b. volunteered in their communities
c. engaged in regular exercise
d. avoided alcohol, tobacco, and recreational drugs

Answer 9

c. engaged in regular exercise

Question 10

Religion, economics, sexual identity, personal style, Ethnic/racial identity, chronological/lifespan, Trauma/Crisis, Family background, Unique physical characteristics, Location/Language

Answer 10

RESPECTFUL MODEL

Question 11

What are traumatic wounds like the ones suffered by Native Americans that are passed from generation to generation?

Answer 11

Soul Wound.

Question 12

This model enables us to identify the past and present voices that
affect our own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Answer 12

The RESPECTFUL Model

Question 13

________ is power given to people through cultural assumptions
and stereotypes and being in some RESPECTFUL categories offers ______ too.

Answer 13

Privilege

Question 14

A term used to describe language that is calculated to provide a minimum of offense, particularly to the racial, cultural, or other identity groups.

Answer 14

Political Correctness

Question 15

1. (Awareness) Becoming aware of own assumptions, values and biases
2. (Knowledge) Understanding the worldview of the culturally different client
3. (Skills) Develop intervention strategies and techniques
4. (Action) Acting guided by these

Answer 15

The 4 Dimensions of Multicultural Competence

Question 16

Interviewers can predict that both they and their client will appreciate, gain respect, and learn from increasing knowledge in ethics and multicultural competence when the interviewer ________.

a. is an educated, qualified, and experienced professional
b. bases her behavior on an ethical approach with an awareness of diversity
c. is competent to address any and all multicultural issues
d. stays within the boundaries of multicultural guidelines and practice competencies

Answer 16

b. bases her behavior on an ethical approach with an awareness of diversity

Question 17

Ethical codes aid the helping process by :

a. teaching and promoting the basics of ethical and appropriate practice.
b. serving as a mechanism to improve practice.
c. protecting clients by providing accountability.
d. all of the above.

Answer 17

d. all of the above.

Question 18

Ethical codes promote professional empowerment by assisting professionals and professionals-in- training to:

a. maintain good practices.
b. protect the client.
c. enhance the profession.
d. all of the above.

Answer 18

d. all of the above.

Question 19

Interviewers need to have “education and training, supervised experience, state and national professional credentials, and appropriate professional experience.” This ethical standard relates primarily to:

a. competence.
b. informed consent.
c. confidentiality.
d. diversity.

Answer 19

a. competence.

Question 20

The need for appropriate supervision is most basic to which ethical area?

a. Competence
b. Informed consent
c. Confidentiality
d. Power

Answer 20

a. Competence

Question 21

HIPAA is the acronym for:

a. Health Incorporated for Patients Assistance for Allstate.
b. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
c. Health Insurance for Patients from All Alliances.
d. Health Insurance Provided by Allstate to All.

Answer 21

b. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

Question 22

Which of the following is NOT a key element of HIPAA’s Privacy Rule described in the book?

a. Protected health information
b. Who is covered by the Privacy Rule
c. De-identified health information
d. All of the above

Answer 22

b. Who is covered by the Privacy Rule

Question 23

As it relates to client rights and informed consent, which one of the following statements is FALSE?

a. Throughout the counseling process as appropriate, counselors inform clients of goals,
techniques, limitations, and risks and benefits.

b. Clients have the right to participate in counseling planning and the right to refuse services.

c. Clients are informed of the therapy plan outlined by an experienced therapist and follow it
with little deviation.

d. Counselors make sure clients understand fee collection arrangements, record keeping, and
limits to confidentiality.

Answer 23

c. Clients are informed of the therapy plan outlined by an experienced therapist and follow it
with little deviation.

Question 24

When does the counselor inform the client of purposes, goals, techniques, procedures, limitations, potential risks and benefits of the counseling process?

a. At the beginning of the counseling relationship
b. After the client agrees to a counseling relationship
c. Every other session without fail
d. Before counseling begins and at any time conditions change or new issues are discovered

Answer 24

d. Before counseling begins and at any time conditions change or new issues are discovered

Question 25

Which of the following statements is NOT true regarding the power relationship between client and counselor?

a. Human services professionals are aware that in their relationship with clients, power and status are equal.
b. Power aspects of dual or multiple relationships may impair professional judgment.
c. The very act of helping has power implications.
d. Awareness of and openness to talking about power issues is an appropriate way to
improve client relations.

Answer 25

a. Human services professionals are aware that in their relationship with clients, power and status are equal.

Question 26

“How does it feel, being a woman, to talk to me about this issue, as I am a man?” Discussing this issue is part of the ethical area of:

a. informed consent.
b. social justice.
c. competence (boundaries).
d. power

Answer 26

d. power

Question 27

The concept that dual or multiple relationships [between a client and counselor] may lead to exploitation of clients and impair professional judgment is most closely related to which of the following issues?

a. Privacy
b. Confidentiality
c. Power
d. Social Impact

Answer 27

c. Power

Question 28

Dual relationships are virtually certain to exist in all BUT which of the following?

a. Conducting a microskills practice session with a classmate
b. Conducting a microskills practice session with a family member
c. Conducting counseling with a person in your community of 1,000 individuals
d. Conducting counseling with a person in your community of 10,000 individuals

Answer 28

d. Conducting counseling with a person in your community of 10,000 individuals