Chapter 5

Question 1

Involves the right of clients to be informed about their therapy and to make autonomous decisions pertaining to it

Answer 1

Informed consent

Question 2

Defines boundaries and clarify the nature of the basic counseling relationship between the counselor and the client

Answer 2

Informed consent document

Question 3

A means of documenting aspects of a client’s treatment and are kept in a client’s clinical record

Answer 3

Progress notes

Question 4

Deal with client reactions such as transference and the therapist’s subjective impressions of a client

Answer 4

Process notes

Question 5

The failure to render professional services or to exercise the degree of skill that is ordinarily expected of other professionals in a similar situation

Answer 5

Malpractice

Question 6

Can result from unjustified departure from usual practice or from failing to exercise proper care in fulfilling one’s responsibilities

Answer 6

Professional negligence

Question 7

Clinicians are judged according to the standards that are commonly accepted by the profession; that is, whether a reasonably prudent counselor in a similar circumstance would have acted in the same manner

Answer 7

Standard of care

Question 8

The ethically and clinically appropriate process by which a professional relationship is ended

Answer 8

Termination

Question 9

The failure of the psychologist to take the clinically indicated and ethically appropriate steps to terminate a professional relationship

Answer 9

Abandonment

Question 10

The practice of focusing on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of problems that may injure clients and lead to filing an ethics complaint to a licensing board or a malpractice action

Answer 10

Risk management