National Counseling Exam 2024/2025
When was the original Code of Ethics for counselors introduced?
a. 1964
b. 1977
c. 1990
d. 2014 - Precise Answer ✔✔c. 1990
All of the following are provisions of the ACA Code of Ethics (2014)
regarding informed consent EXCEPT:
a. Clients should be informed of the nature of all services, both in
writing and verbally, and should be apprised of fees.
b. Clients should be included in discussions even if they are themselves
unable to give informed consent.
c. Clients must be informed about risks of breach of security when
utilizing distance counseling.
d. Clients must give informed consent before any personal information
of PHI can be shared with others. - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Clients must
give informed consent before any personal information of PHI can be
shared with others.
Who is most commonly associated with the deontological view of ethics
and was responsible for developing the foundational philosophy or
categorical impertative?
,a. Arnold Lazarus
b. Immanuel Kant
c. John Stuart Mill
d. M.C. Gottlieb - Precise Answer ✔✔b. Immanuel Kant
Which of the following is a considerable part of value ethics and can be
broken down into intellectual and emotional categories (as proposed by
Pope and Brown in 1996)?
a. Competence
b. Self-knowledge
c. Accountability
d. Principles - Precise Answer ✔✔a. Competence
Which of the following is NOT true of virtue ethics?
a. Virtue ethics is based on beneficence and nonmaleficence.
b. Ethical codes can be trusted on their own to maintain a virtue ethics
perspective.
c. The virtue ethics philosophy is also known as value ethics or principle
ethics.
d. Virtue ethics hold that people with high ethical standards can make
good ethical judgments. - Precise Answer ✔✔b. Ethical codes can be
trusted on their own to maintain a virtue ethics perspective.
Which two certifying organizations came together in the latter part of the
1990s, with the joint entity offering the national Certified School
,Counselor (NCSC) and the Master Addictions Counselor (MAC)
certificates?
a. The National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health
Counselors and the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
b. The Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC)
and the National Counsel for the Credentialing of Career Counselors
(NCCC)
c. The National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and the
Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC)
d. The National Counsel for the Credentialing of Career Counselors
(NCCC) and the National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health
Counselors - Precise Answer ✔✔a. The National Academy of Certified
Clinical Mental Health Counselors and the National Board for Certified
Counselors (NBCC)
In 2016, the Standards of the CACREP were organized into six sections.
Which of the following is NOT one of those six sections.
a. Professional counseling identity
b. Entry-level specialty areas
c. The learning environment
d. Ethical practice standards - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Ethical practice
standards
What state passed the first counseling licensure laws?
a. Alabama
b. Arkansas
, c. California
d. Virginia - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Virginia
What is the last step of approval needed when passing a bill into a law?
a. House of Representatives
b. The executive branch
c. Legislative body
d. The senate - Precise Answer ✔✔b. The executive branch
Some have yet to recognize the high standards and expertise that exist in
the mental health counselors' professional credentials, and this problem
of recognition exists as a hindrance primarily on the:
a. Individual level
b. Community level
c. Corporate level
d. Government level - Precise Answer ✔✔c. Corporate level
When communicating with policy makers, lack of which of the
following can make the unpaid lobbyist risk "the brush off," or not being
understood by the official?
a. Active networks
b. Relationships
c. Good timing
d. Succinct terms - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Succinct terms
When was the original Code of Ethics for counselors introduced?
a. 1964
b. 1977
c. 1990
d. 2014 - Precise Answer ✔✔c. 1990
All of the following are provisions of the ACA Code of Ethics (2014)
regarding informed consent EXCEPT:
a. Clients should be informed of the nature of all services, both in
writing and verbally, and should be apprised of fees.
b. Clients should be included in discussions even if they are themselves
unable to give informed consent.
c. Clients must be informed about risks of breach of security when
utilizing distance counseling.
d. Clients must give informed consent before any personal information
of PHI can be shared with others. - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Clients must
give informed consent before any personal information of PHI can be
shared with others.
Who is most commonly associated with the deontological view of ethics
and was responsible for developing the foundational philosophy or
categorical impertative?
,a. Arnold Lazarus
b. Immanuel Kant
c. John Stuart Mill
d. M.C. Gottlieb - Precise Answer ✔✔b. Immanuel Kant
Which of the following is a considerable part of value ethics and can be
broken down into intellectual and emotional categories (as proposed by
Pope and Brown in 1996)?
a. Competence
b. Self-knowledge
c. Accountability
d. Principles - Precise Answer ✔✔a. Competence
Which of the following is NOT true of virtue ethics?
a. Virtue ethics is based on beneficence and nonmaleficence.
b. Ethical codes can be trusted on their own to maintain a virtue ethics
perspective.
c. The virtue ethics philosophy is also known as value ethics or principle
ethics.
d. Virtue ethics hold that people with high ethical standards can make
good ethical judgments. - Precise Answer ✔✔b. Ethical codes can be
trusted on their own to maintain a virtue ethics perspective.
Which two certifying organizations came together in the latter part of the
1990s, with the joint entity offering the national Certified School
,Counselor (NCSC) and the Master Addictions Counselor (MAC)
certificates?
a. The National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health
Counselors and the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
b. The Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC)
and the National Counsel for the Credentialing of Career Counselors
(NCCC)
c. The National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) and the
Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC)
d. The National Counsel for the Credentialing of Career Counselors
(NCCC) and the National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health
Counselors - Precise Answer ✔✔a. The National Academy of Certified
Clinical Mental Health Counselors and the National Board for Certified
Counselors (NBCC)
In 2016, the Standards of the CACREP were organized into six sections.
Which of the following is NOT one of those six sections.
a. Professional counseling identity
b. Entry-level specialty areas
c. The learning environment
d. Ethical practice standards - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Ethical practice
standards
What state passed the first counseling licensure laws?
a. Alabama
b. Arkansas
, c. California
d. Virginia - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Virginia
What is the last step of approval needed when passing a bill into a law?
a. House of Representatives
b. The executive branch
c. Legislative body
d. The senate - Precise Answer ✔✔b. The executive branch
Some have yet to recognize the high standards and expertise that exist in
the mental health counselors' professional credentials, and this problem
of recognition exists as a hindrance primarily on the:
a. Individual level
b. Community level
c. Corporate level
d. Government level - Precise Answer ✔✔c. Corporate level
When communicating with policy makers, lack of which of the
following can make the unpaid lobbyist risk "the brush off," or not being
understood by the official?
a. Active networks
b. Relationships
c. Good timing
d. Succinct terms - Precise Answer ✔✔d. Succinct terms
