(CO612) Chapter 3 - Quiz Flashcards
Values and the Helping Relationship
According to Hancock, counselors’ personal beliefs and values:
a. are fundamentally more important than the ethical values of the relevant professional organizations.
b. can and must be used as a basis for decisions to refer clients to other providers.
c. must be respected by educational institutions and have primacy over the values of the institutions.
d. must not supersede professional mandates to serve the best interests of their clients.
d. must not supersede professional mandates to serve the best interests of their clients.
According to the text, meditation, prayer, being in nature, and mindfulness are all ways of integrating which of the following into therapy?
a. behavior and cognition
b. affect and mood
c. diversity and equity
d. spirituality and religion
d. spirituality and religion
According to the text, if you feel secure in your own values, you:
a. should refer clients who hold a different set of values.
b. should give your clients a list of readings that will help them to understand your values.
c. should not hesitate to impose them on your clients.
d. will not be threatened by really listening to people who think differently.
d. will not be threatened by really listening to people who think differently.
In dealing with clients who hold different values, you are advised to:
a. forget about your own values temporarily.
b. persuade them to adopt your values.
c. work collaboratively to identify and clarify their value system and determine the degree to which they are living by those beliefs and values.
d. persuade them to adopt the values of the counseling profession, which are based on the Judeo-Christian tradition.
c. work collaboratively to identify and clarify their value system and determine the degree to which they are living by those beliefs and values.
When counseling a couple who are seeking professional help because they are unsatisfied with the quality of their relationship, the counselor should keep in mind that:
a. the counselor’s job is to help save relationships; thus, the two need to be convinced to stay together.
b. their relationship is probably doomed to fail; thus, it is more ethical in such a case to directly advise the couple to dissolve their relationship.
c. it is not the counselor’s responsibility to determine the quality of the relationship or whether the relationship is worth saving.
d. the counselor can always refer the couple to avoid having to deal with their problems.
c. it is not the counselor’s responsibility to determine the quality of the relationship or whether the relationship is worth saving.
A counselor who works with clients who might be considering abortion should:
a. focus solely on social justice issues when providing advice.
b. explain to the clients the counselor’s ethical and moral views about abortion.
c. persuade clients to make decisions that are consistent with the counselor’s values.
d. be familiar with laws and policies related to parental consent when working with minors.
d. be familiar with laws and policies related to parental consent when working with minors.
Which of the following specifies the conditions under which an individual wishes to receive certain treatment or to refuse or discontinue life-sustaining treatment?
a. Living Will
b. moral conditions
c. electronic medical record
d. power of attorney
a. Living Will
A same-sex couple wants to adopt a child and seeks the services of a therapist whose religious values oppose same-sex relationships. In order to practice ethically, the therapist should:
a. recommend “conversion therapy” and inform them that they could choose to be straight.
b. fabricate a reason for needing to refer the couple, such as a lack of competence in adoption issues.
c. refuse to offer counseling to the couple and refer to the “freedom of conscience” clause in the law to protect themselves from legal action.
d. be invested in helping the couple sort through their issues without imposing the therapist’s own values on them and seek supervision, if necessary.
d. be invested in helping the couple sort through their issues without imposing the therapist’s own values on them and seek supervision, if necessary.
In two recent court cases, counseling students with conservative religious beliefs filed suit against their public universities over:
a. sexual harassment.
b. being denied admittance into counseling programs because of their religion.
c. the requirement that students avoid imposing their religious values on clients.
d. being charged higher tuition than their nonreligious classmates.
c. the requirement that students avoid imposing their religious values on clients.
When should issues related to spirituality and religion first be raised in counseling?
a. during the assessment
b. after a working alliance has been established
c. only if the client brings them up
d. never
a. during the assessment
Jair is a substance abuse counselor who works with a program that requires clients to participate in 12-step groups. One of the early steps involves turning their “will and . . . lives over to the care of” a higher power. Clients who are in the early stages of recovery often say they have no “higher power” and neither need nor want one. Jair is tempted to share with such clients his own “higher power,” witness to them about what his higher power has done for him, and urge them to accept his higher power. This is an example of:
a. values conflict.
b. values imposition.
c. acceptable evangelism.
d. moral turpitude.
b. values imposition.
Jena, who had lived her entire life around people who were similar to her in terms of culture, was thrilled to get her first job as a professional counselor in a large city clinic. However, she found that her clients often had very different values than she did and engaged in behaviors she found unacceptable. If Jena were to refer a client simply because their values were different from her own or because she did not approve of their behavior, the referral would run the risk of being a(n):
a. convenience referral.
b. acceptable referral.
c. mandatory referral.
d. discriminatory referral.
d. discriminatory referral.
Referral should be considered when:
a. the provider lacks the knowledge to deal with a client’s issues.
b. there is a significant values conflict.
c. the provider and client are of different, incompatible religions.
d. there is even a minor values conflict.
a. the provider lacks the knowledge to deal with a client’s issues.
Clients may want professional assistance in exploring issues such as whether and how to complete a Living Will and whether to have someone hold durable power of attorney for health care. The authors refer to these issues as:
a. life management issues.
b. end-of-life decisions.
c. logistical matters.
d. existential commonalities.
b. end-of-life decisions.
Specialized skill in tolerating and managing clients’ problems related to end-of-life issues is referred to as:
a. grief competence.
b. death management.
c. death competence.
d. life management.
c. death competence.
