Deck 14: Counselors and Therapists As Teachers and Researchers: Integrity, Science and Care

Question 1

Identify two ethical lapses that researchers have found to occur fairly frequently among counseling and psychology educators.

Answer 1

No Answer

Question 2

What makes sexual contact between faculty and graduate students problematic? Why can't both parties be treated as consenting adults free to relate to each other as they choose?

Answer 2

No Answer

Question 3

Welfel identifies a number of boundary crossings that probably constitute problematic dual relationships. Describe at least four of these situations and discuss why they may be ethical problems.

Answer 3

No Answer

Question 4

What steps should a faculty member take to comply with the recommendations of ethics scholars if he or she is including a personal growth experience in a mental health training program?

Question 5

Rosenthal implies that research that is not "good science"is inherently unethical.Explain what he means by that statement.

Question 6

Identify at least 6 major ethical responsibilities of researchers to their research participants. Describe a study and a set of research procedures that show compliance with these recommendations.

Question 7

If a faculty member and a student are collaborating on a research project, what guidelines should the faculty member follow in the collaboration and in deciding authorship?

Question 8

According to the codes of ethics, to be a competent counselor educator or psychology educator a professional must:

A) Obtain yearly continuing education courses related to their teaching responsibilities
B) Hide his or her own theoretical orientation to counseling from students
C) Engage in a mentoring relationship with some students each year
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 9

Which of the following is true (according to research findings) regarding sexual contact between counseling and psychology faculty and their students?

A) Sexual contact between faculty and graduate students occurs at approximately the same rate as sexual contact between therapists and clients
B) Sexual contact between faculty and students occurs at a higher rate than sexual contact between therapists and clients
C) Sexual contact almost never occurs, but sexual harassment is a continuing problem.
D) None of the above

Question 10

A mentoring relationship between a faculty member and a student may be crossing the boundary into a problematic dual relationship when:

A) A faculty member shares his or her worries and frustrations with the tenure process at numerous times during the academic year in which the faculty member is a candidate for promotion
B) A faculty member recommends a doctoral dissertation topic to a student related to the ongoing research they have been conducting
C) A faculty member hires the son of the student in the mentoring relationship to do summer child care for his children after the student has graduated from the program.
D) All of the above
E) None of the above.

Question 11

Personal growth experiences that are parts of a training program in counseling or psychotherapy must:

A) Not be required parts of the curriculum -- they must be optional to be ethical
B) Include information so that students know the consequences of the disclosures they make in those experiences on their status in the program
C) Only be taught by adjunct faculty
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 12

The rights of research participants include:

A) The right to withdraw participation in the research without forfeiting the payment they receive for participation
B) The right to disclose information about child abuse without having it reported to authorities
C) The right to know whether all participants will be given the experimental treatment
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 13

Deception in research is justified when:

A) The researcher is not being paid by a for-profit company for the research
B) No good alternatives exist to conduct the research
C) Prior research has been published on the topic that used deception
D) All of the above
E) None of the above

Question 14

Researchers studying counseling and psychotherapy have special ethical obligations that include which of the following:

A) Offering clients who were placed in the control or comparison group the experimental treatment afterwards if they want it
B) Not charging a fee for the psychotherapy in the research project even if it is a well known therapeutic approach
C) Giving research participants the opportunity to read the manuscript describing the research results before it is submitted for publication
D) All of the above
E) None of the above