Deck 5: Ethical and Legal Issues in Career Counseling

Question 1

Legal and ethical issues, principles, codes, and statutes govern and enhance the work of career counselors and others working in career development.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The chapter authors note that career counselors are primarily dedicated to promoting the career development profession and opportunities for career counselors.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Ethics can be defined as a consensus value set.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Contemporary social and cultural issues now call for less attention by career counselors than previously given in the past.

Question 5

A client's work ethic has value for helping a career counselor and the client address ethical and legal career issues.

Question 6

Career counselors need to focus on which of the following principles listed in the Preamble to the NCDA Ethical Standards?

A) Human worth and dignity
B) Human commonality and uniqueness
C) Human uniqueness and potential
D) a and b
E) a and c

Question 7

Career counselors may be accountable to codes of ethics from:

A) The National Career Development Association Ethical Standards
B) The American Counseling Association Ethical Standards
C) The National Board for Certified Counselors Ethical Standards
D) a and b
E) all of the above

Question 8

Career counselors:

A) Have played a limited leadership role in the counseling profession
B) Have led the counseling profession in computer based applications of counseling
C) Have made major advances in marital and couple therapy
D) a and b, but not c
E) a and c, but not b

Question 9

Career Development professionals include:

A) Career counselors
B) Career coaches
C) Career development facilitators
D) Career development facilitators.
E) a and c, but not b

Question 10

Accountability for career counselors encompasses accountability for:

A) An individual counselor's ethics
B) National adherence to the counselor's professional organization ethical standards
C) Compliance with state and national legal requirements
D) a and b, but not c
E) a, b, and c

Question 11

Match the following.

-Ethics

A) "Do good"
B) Unethical and illegal
C) Pertaining to a counselor's motives, goals, and behavior
D) "Do no harm"
E) System of morals of a particular person, group, profession

Question 12

Match the following.

-Legal

A) "Do good"
B) Unethical and illegal
C) Pertaining to a counselor's motives, goals, and behavior
D) "Do no harm"
E) System of morals of a particular person, group, profession

Question 13

Match the following.

-Nonmalificence

A) "Do good"
B) Unethical and illegal
C) Pertaining to a counselor's motives, goals, and behavior
D) "Do no harm"
E) System of morals of a particular person, group, profession

Question 14

Match the following.

-Beneficence

A) "Do good"
B) Unethical and illegal
C) Pertaining to a counselor's motives, goals, and behavior
D) "Do no harm"
E) System of morals of a particular person, group, profession

Question 15

Match the following.

-Physically harming a clien

A) "Do good"
B) Unethical and illegal
C) Pertaining to a counselor's motives, goals, and behavior
D) "Do no harm"
E) System of morals of a particular person, group, profession

Question 16

Ethics is an area of philosophy that examines virtue, character, and the good life.

Question 17

Professional ethics for career counselors encompass individual practitioner's level of knowledge, skills, and commitment and adherence to professional organiza- tional standards as a basis for wise moral, ethical, and legal decisions in profes- sional practice.

Question 18

One of the most fundamental guiding principles is nonmaleficence and benefi- cence, "don't waste," and "be efficient."

Question 19

Section C of the NCDA Ethical Standards states that career counselors refrain from falsifying or exaggerating professional qualifications or abilities.

Question 20

Career professionals must only pursue positions for which they are qualified, and recognize and address personal limits of skill and knowledge.

Question 21

In our increasingly litigious society, all counselors are well advised to carry liability insurance and to become familiar with laws specific to the counselor's primary duties..

Question 22

Career counselors do not need to know themselves well and do not need some knowledge of moral principles in order to make personal sense of the ethical standards..

Question 23

Local chapters of state counseling organizations is a good place for newly established career counselors to seek mentorship.

Question 24

Ethical codes are agreed-on general or specific rules imposed by society typically in response to events or circumstances in which society believes regulation is needed.

Question 25

Research results are reported in a manner ensuring that the identity of subjects is protected.

Question 26

Engaging in consensual sexual relations with a current adult client could be legal but would not be ethical.

Question 27

Career counselors who hold professional credentials and membership in multiple professional organizations incur multiple ethical and legal obligations but are most responsible to the affiliation they are most involved with.

Question 28

The Texas Supreme Court ruling in Thapar v. Zezulka (1999) stated that a mental health professional can be liable for violating a client's right to an assumption of privacy if a counselor were to warn a potential victim after a client makes threats toward a specific person(s).

Question 29

What is illegal is unethical.

Question 30

Membership and participation in public policy initiatives of their professional associations is important for articulation of and advocacy for individual practi- tioners to impact policy.

Question 31

Professional ethics related to career counseling has been well discussed and researched, making it easy for practitioners to have a solid base for action.

Question 32

One incurs legal liability or accountability under the law as one increases one's expertise and competence.

Question 33

The counselor's primary ethical obligation is to the counseling profession.

Question 34

A counselor's ability to demonstrate how his or her behavior complies with official ethical standards and principles or legal guidance could afford a major basis for a plausible defense against a lawsuit.

Question 35

Slightly exaggerated claims of what career counseling can do for clients is legal, but unethical.