Answer the following true false questions
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1. TRUE / FALSE – Ethics assure the public that counselors operate with the best interests of their clients and by trying to do no harm.
2. TRUE / FALSE – Ethical practice is important in the field of crisis intervention because clients in crisis come to a counselor in a vulnerable state.
3. TRUE / FALSE – It can be easy to take advantage of someone vulnerable.
4. TRUE / FALSE – The Lanterman-Petris Short Act established specific requirement for involuntary detention by peace officers.
5. TRUE / FALSE – If an individual were determined to be a danger to himself or others, that person could be taken into custody for 72 hours mental health observation.
6. TRUE / FALSE – Under the 14th Amendment to due process that requires that the nature and duration of commitment bear some reasonable relation to the purpose for which the individual is committed.
7. TRUE / FALSE – In the Supreme Court case, O’Connor v. Donaldson, states may not confine a dangerous individual who can survive safely by himself or with help of others.
8. TRUE / FALSE – The ABC model suggest that rapport is a significant challenge for crisis workers in the development of the therapeutic relationship and that, with proper training and supervision, peer counselors are valuable.
9. TRUE / FALSE – By maintaining self-awareness and proactively monitoring ourselves, we will succeed in honoring ethical standards and engaging in minimal violations of ethical and legal cords.
10. TRUE / FALSE – Therapeutic awareness means being conscious of one’s own emotions, values, opinions, and behavior.
11. TRUE / FALSE – An ethical practitioner’s crucial task is to learn how to interpret and apply ethical codes to an ethical dilemma.
12. TRUE / FALSE – Ethical codes state that dual relationships should be avoided whenever possible.
13. TRUE / FALSE – Confidentially can be considered as an absolute that guarantees clients that their disclosures will never be revealed.
14. TRUE / FALSE – Confidentiality must be breached and information must be reported by practitioners when clients pose a danger to others, etc.
15. TRUE / FALSE – Clients have a right to be informed about the therapist’s qualifications, goals of counseling and length of the therapeutic process.
16. TRUE / FALSE – Dual relationship involves when a counselor has more than one kind of relationship with a client.
17. TRUE / FALSE – Prohibition of any relationship includes, sexual, social, employment, or financial.
18. TRUE / FALSE – Dual relationship can cause a power differential between counselor and client is enormous.
19. TRUE / FALSE – Dual relationship can cause emotional damage to clients.
20. TRUE / FALSE – Do not make friends or lovers of your clients. It is unethical and, in some cases, illegal.
21. TRUE / FALSE – Confidentiality is a concept that refers to safeguarding clients from unauthorized disclosures of information made in the therapeutic relationship.
22. TRUE / FALSE – Privileged communication is a statutory right that protects clients from having their confidences revealed publicly. Inferiority feelings create motivation to achieve mastery.
23. TRUE / FALSE – Confidentiality must be broken in cases of child abuse or elder abuse, when clients are a danger to others.
24. TRUE / FALSE – Elder abuse is any act inflicted by other than accidental means on an elder, physical abuse, fiduciary abuse, neglect, or abandonment. In many states elder abuse must be reported.
25. TRUE / FALSE – In many states child abuse reporting is mandatory. If you suspect that a child is a victim of physical abuse, sexual abuse, general neglect, and emotional abuse; suspicion alone is enough to report.
