Chapter 1- Introduction to Professional Ethics

Question 1

Codes of Ethics fulfill what three objectives

Answer 1

1) Educate professionals
2) mechanism for professional accountability
3) Serve as a catalysts for improving practice

Question 2

What is the primary purpose of a code of ethics?

Answer 2

Safeguard the welfare of clients

Question 3

The community standard is generally less rigorous than the ethical standard? T/F

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Pertains to the standards that govern the conduct of its professional members

Answer 4

Ethics

Question 5

The body of rules that govern the affairs of people within a community, state, or country.

Answer 5

Law

Question 6

Define the minimum standards society will tolerate, which are enforced by the government.

Answer 6

Law

Question 7

The law usually overrules ethics? T/F

Answer 7

True

Question 8

How does one clarity whether a legal issue is involved?

Answer 8

a) legal proceedings have been initiated
b) lawyers are involved
c) the practitioner is in danger of having a complaint filed against him or her for misconduct.

Question 9

Limiting your scope of practice to obeying statutes and following ethical standards is inadequate is what kind of ethics?

Answer 9

Fear-based ethics

Question 10

Striving for the highest level of ethical care for your client is what kind of ethics?

Answer 10

Concerned based ethics

Question 11

Ethical standards primary protect the client, but also help the clinician in what way?

Answer 11

Their own self-care

Question 12

In ethical dilemmas involving legal issues, a wise course of action is to…

Answer 12

Seek advice from legal counsel and tho discuss the situation with colleges familiar with the law

Question 13

Ethical codes undergo periodic revisions and are best viewed as living documents. They are usually review every ? years.

Answer 13

5-10 years

Question 14

Duties of regulating boards are:

Answer 14

1) to determine standards for admission into the profession
2) to screen applicants applying for certification or licensure
3) to regulate the practice of. psychotherapy for the public good
4) to conduct disciplinary proceedings involving violations of standards of professional conduct as defined by law

Question 15

Pertains to beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living.

Answer 15

Values

Question 16

Pertains to the beliefs we hold about what constitutes right conduct

Answer 16

Ethics

Question 17

Is concerned with perspectives. of right and proper conduct and involves an evaluation of actions on the basis of some broader cultural context or religious standard.

Answer 17

Morality

Question 18

Represents aspirational goals, or the maximum or ideal set by the profession, practiced through your professional behavior and interactions.

Answer 18

Ethics

Question 19

What’s another name for community standards?

Answer 19

Mores

Question 20

Is usually defined as the care that is ordinarily exercised by others practicing within that specialty in the professional community?

Answer 20

Reasonableness

Question 21

Has some relationship tho ethical behavior, yet it is possible to act unprofessionally and still not act unethically. ie not retuning a client’s phone call.

Answer 21

Professionalism

Question 22

A level of ethical functioning wherein counsellors act in compliance with minimal standards, acknowledging the basic “musts” and “must nots.”

Answer 22

Mandatory ethics

Question 23

Describes the highest standards of thinking and conduct professional counsellors seek, and it requires that counsellors do more than simply meet the letter of the ethics codes.

Answer 23

Aspirational ethics

Question 24

Focuses not only on how professionals can harm clients but on how therapists can do better at helping clients.

Answer 24

Positive Ethics

Question 25

Most violations of ethics probably happen inadvertently in clinical practice, it’s not always extreme violations of established codes.

Answer 25

Unethical

Question 26

A set of obligations and a method that focuses on moral issues with the goals of

a) solving a particular dilemma or set of dilemmas and
b) establishing a framework to guide future ethical thinking and behavior.

Answer 26

Principle ethics

Question 27

Focuses on the character traits of the counsellor and nonobligatory ideals to which professionals aspire rather than on solving specific ethical dilemmas. Asks the questions “Is this situation unethical?”

Answer 27

Virtue ethics

Question 28

What are six moral principles the form the foundation of functioning at the highest ethical level as a professional.

Answer 28

Autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, justice, fidelity and veracity.

Question 29

Refers to the promotion of self-determination, or the freedom of clients to be self-governing within their social and cultural framework.

Answer 29

Autonomy

Question 30

Means avoiding doing harm

Answer 30

nonmaleficence

Question 31

Refers to doing good for others and to promoting the well-being of clients.

Answer 31

Beneficence

Question 32

Means to be fair by giving equally to others and to treat other justly.

Answer 32

Justice

Question 33

Means that professionals make realistic commitments and do their best to keep these promises. This entails fulfilling one’s responsibilities of trust in a relationship.

Answer 33

Fidelity

Question 34

Means truthfulness, which involves the practitioner’s obligation to deal honestly with clients.

Answer 34

Veracity

Question 35

This involves taking adequate care of ourselves so that we are able to implement the moral principles and virtues that are fundamental ethical concepts.

Answer 35

Self-Care

Question 36

Focuses primarily on the social aspects of decision making in counselling. Shares some aspects with the feminist model but..

Answer 36

Social constructionist model

Question 37

Addresses the need for including cultural factors in the process of resolving ethical dilemmas.

Answer 37

Transcultural integrative model

Question 38

Steps in Transcultural integrative model for making ethical decisions.

Answer 38

1. Identify the problem or dilemma
2. Identify the potential issues involved
3. Review the relevant ethics codes.
4. Know the applicable laws and regulations
5. Obtain consultation
6. Consider possible and probable courses of action
7. Enumerate and consider the possible consequences of various decisions.
8. Choose what appears to be the best course of action.