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Feedback: Assignment 02 2021
MEMO
,Assignment 02 consisted of 20 Multiple Choice Questions.
The memorandum provides feedback on Assignment 02. Answers to the questions as well
as discussions of the questions are provided. The key to each question is indicated, that is,
the option that provides the correct answer. The reason why the indicated key is the most
correct answer is explained. In some cases the discussion also indicates why the other
options are incorrect.
Assignment 02 covers the entire syllabus. Working through the discussions on these
questions therefore serves as revision of the work you have studied. Your incorrect answers
give an idea of the sections that you need to spend additional time on when preparing for the
examination.
Question 1
The correct answer is: Option 4
The unique aspects of Transformative Counselling Encounters remind us that - - - - -
(1) All interviewing involves multicultural and diversity dimensions.
(2) Diversity includes areas often missed by definitions of multiculturalism such as
experience with trauma, social class, family background, and location and language.
(3) We will be spending a lifetime learning more about the many issues of diversity.
(4) All of the above.
Discussion:
The unique aspects of Transformative Counselling highlighted in the Transformative
Counselling Encounters study guide are:
• an orientation towards understanding purposeful encounters between people through
meaningful engagement in a counselling framework;
• a sensitivity regarding the ethos (characteristics, tone or flavour) of context-appropriate
counselling and understanding its potential to enhance humanness and well-being in
society;
• an understanding of reflexivity (awareness, adaptation) as a tool that can enhance
purposeful and meaningful engagement and become a tool towards self- and social
transformation;
• an understanding of the world as a set of related systems and recognising that problem-
solving contexts do not exist in isolation, and
• an understanding of the language of process and its potential to evoke a deeper
understanding of relational patterns and dynamics in counselling processes.
Question 2
The correct answer is: Option 4
The four rules of professional–client relationships set forth and explained in transformative
Counselling Encounters are:
(1) Autonomy, privacy, respect, and confidentiality
(2) Reliability, privacy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence
(3) Respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice
(4) Reliability, privacy, confidentiality, respect and trustworthiness
Discussion:
Respecting privacy and confidentiality any disclosures of client confidences should be
undertaken in ways that best protect the client's trust and respect client autonomy (respect
for the client's right to be self-governing). Communications made on the basis of client
consent do not constitute a breach of confidentiality. A counsellor must accept responsibility
for promoting what is good for the client with the expectation that the client will benefit from
the counselling sessions. The counsellor must be trustworthy (honouring the trust the client
placed in the counsellor).
, Question 3
The correct answer is: Option 4
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us
(1) that by nature, human beings do not have the desire to solve their own problems hence a
constant pool towards falling within the cracks.
(2) to sympathise better with our clients.
(3) that we will not be able to solve our clients’ problems unless we succeed in identifying
pathological patterns in their behavior.
(4) to think about people’s experiences of pain, suffering and strive from the context which
they are part of.
Discussion:
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us:
• be sensitive to contextual cues and understand that counselling and counselling-related
processes happen in context;
• see counselling as a way of being in relationship to others;
• understand the importance of having a frame of reference, and
• see the importance of language as a connective device that can enhance counselling
encounters and counselling-related processes.
Question 4
The correct answer is: Option 1
Based on the discussion of privacy and confidentiality, what would be an example of a
breach of privacy that does not involve a breach of confidentiality?
(1) A person who does not have authorisation views a client's medical record on a hospital
computer.
(2) One counsellor discusses a client's case with another who is not involved in the client's
treatment, using the client's name and identifying information.
(3) A counsellor calls a suicidal client's family members to ask them to look out for the
client's well-being.
(4) A counsellor talks to his or her spouse in detail about the patients under his or her care
Discussion:
A breach of confidentiality occurs when data or information provided in confidence to you by
a client is disclosed to a third party without your client's consent. While most confidentiality
breaches are unintentional. While most confidentiality breaches are unintentional, clients
can still suffer as a result. Respect for confidentiality is important to safeguard the well-being
of patients and ensure the confidence of society in the counsellor-client relationship.
Feedback: Assignment 02 2021
MEMO
,Assignment 02 consisted of 20 Multiple Choice Questions.
The memorandum provides feedback on Assignment 02. Answers to the questions as well
as discussions of the questions are provided. The key to each question is indicated, that is,
the option that provides the correct answer. The reason why the indicated key is the most
correct answer is explained. In some cases the discussion also indicates why the other
options are incorrect.
Assignment 02 covers the entire syllabus. Working through the discussions on these
questions therefore serves as revision of the work you have studied. Your incorrect answers
give an idea of the sections that you need to spend additional time on when preparing for the
examination.
Question 1
The correct answer is: Option 4
The unique aspects of Transformative Counselling Encounters remind us that - - - - -
(1) All interviewing involves multicultural and diversity dimensions.
(2) Diversity includes areas often missed by definitions of multiculturalism such as
experience with trauma, social class, family background, and location and language.
(3) We will be spending a lifetime learning more about the many issues of diversity.
(4) All of the above.
Discussion:
The unique aspects of Transformative Counselling highlighted in the Transformative
Counselling Encounters study guide are:
• an orientation towards understanding purposeful encounters between people through
meaningful engagement in a counselling framework;
• a sensitivity regarding the ethos (characteristics, tone or flavour) of context-appropriate
counselling and understanding its potential to enhance humanness and well-being in
society;
• an understanding of reflexivity (awareness, adaptation) as a tool that can enhance
purposeful and meaningful engagement and become a tool towards self- and social
transformation;
• an understanding of the world as a set of related systems and recognising that problem-
solving contexts do not exist in isolation, and
• an understanding of the language of process and its potential to evoke a deeper
understanding of relational patterns and dynamics in counselling processes.
Question 2
The correct answer is: Option 4
The four rules of professional–client relationships set forth and explained in transformative
Counselling Encounters are:
(1) Autonomy, privacy, respect, and confidentiality
(2) Reliability, privacy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence
(3) Respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice
(4) Reliability, privacy, confidentiality, respect and trustworthiness
Discussion:
Respecting privacy and confidentiality any disclosures of client confidences should be
undertaken in ways that best protect the client's trust and respect client autonomy (respect
for the client's right to be self-governing). Communications made on the basis of client
consent do not constitute a breach of confidentiality. A counsellor must accept responsibility
for promoting what is good for the client with the expectation that the client will benefit from
the counselling sessions. The counsellor must be trustworthy (honouring the trust the client
placed in the counsellor).
, Question 3
The correct answer is: Option 4
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us
(1) that by nature, human beings do not have the desire to solve their own problems hence a
constant pool towards falling within the cracks.
(2) to sympathise better with our clients.
(3) that we will not be able to solve our clients’ problems unless we succeed in identifying
pathological patterns in their behavior.
(4) to think about people’s experiences of pain, suffering and strive from the context which
they are part of.
Discussion:
The study unit on surveying life within the cracks teaches us:
• be sensitive to contextual cues and understand that counselling and counselling-related
processes happen in context;
• see counselling as a way of being in relationship to others;
• understand the importance of having a frame of reference, and
• see the importance of language as a connective device that can enhance counselling
encounters and counselling-related processes.
Question 4
The correct answer is: Option 1
Based on the discussion of privacy and confidentiality, what would be an example of a
breach of privacy that does not involve a breach of confidentiality?
(1) A person who does not have authorisation views a client's medical record on a hospital
computer.
(2) One counsellor discusses a client's case with another who is not involved in the client's
treatment, using the client's name and identifying information.
(3) A counsellor calls a suicidal client's family members to ask them to look out for the
client's well-being.
(4) A counsellor talks to his or her spouse in detail about the patients under his or her care
Discussion:
A breach of confidentiality occurs when data or information provided in confidence to you by
a client is disclosed to a third party without your client's consent. While most confidentiality
breaches are unintentional. While most confidentiality breaches are unintentional, clients
can still suffer as a result. Respect for confidentiality is important to safeguard the well-being
of patients and ensure the confidence of society in the counsellor-client relationship.
