CADC Exam Illinois (Chapter 6- Professional & Ethical Responsibility)Questions And Answers Already Graded A+

Proscribed - Forbidden Conduct Prescribed - Recommended Conduct Ethics - Moral Values- A sense of what is right and wrong Three Basic Contexts of Ethical Conflicts - 1) Failure to comply with law, governing policies and ethical codes; 2) Personal Dilemmas where an individual knows what is right, but is tempted to do wrong; 3) Moral dilemma when there are conflicting rights or conflicting wrongs Three Elements to ethical/moral decision making - 1) The counselor as a person; 2) Moral Sense; 3) Values The counselor as a person - set of life experiences, beliefs & attitudes that influence how one acts/functions as a professional; self-awareness Transference - The client has developed a misperception based upon the client's internal interepret rather than on the counselor's actual behavior or words Counter-transferance - Counselor projects their own needs/feelings into the counseling relationship and onto the client Moral Sense - Having a personal understanding of the difference between right and wrong ("conscience") Values - reflections on what we believe to be important in our livesInformed Consent - Ensuring that client has realization that they have the power/right to consent or not consent to treatment, etc Ethical Issues in Confidentality - 1) Duty to Warn/Protect, 2) Minors & Families; 3) Maintaining appropriate boundaries; 4) Counselor self-disclosure; 5) Touch; 6) Sexual Attraction; 7) Recovery Boundaries Client Right to Confidentality - Client has right to have information be protected as private, information may only be released in certain circumstances (i.e. written informed consent of client, in case of medical emergency to medical personnel, to service providers with a need to know, for audits/evals of provider, for court orders, for reporting of abuse/neglect, for releasing information about crimes on premises of treatment programs)