CPCE EXAM!!
1. When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to
Answer Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
2. As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to
Answer jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process will proceed
3. A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of relationship
difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had multiple abortions, and
seems to use abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed
to abortion. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relation- ship?
Answer Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the therapeutic relationship
4. You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for six
months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you do?
Answer Accept or decline depending on the circumstances
5. You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a client you
,are counseling. What do you do?
Answer Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal information and obtain written
permission from your client to share confidential information
6. What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file?
Answer Accept or decline depending upon circumstances
7. You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are
adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find you are
highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your emotional state.
You should...
Answer Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if continuing with your clients poses any threat
of being detrimental to the counseling process
8. A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former coun-
selor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is your responsibility
in this case?
Answer It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on a current or past client, so you should
,decline
9. You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend her
wedding. Would it be ethical to do so?
Answer Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a breach of ethics
10. While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your stu-
dents are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You had no prior
knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for professional practice were
, appropriate. Are you, as the principal researcher, responsible for the student's
behavior
Answer Yes, you are ultimately responsible
11. When publishing research, it is important to
Answer Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize, and submit material to only one
journal at a time
12. When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association (ACA)
Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes precedence?
Answer Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
13. An ethics violation should NOT be reported when
Answer A counselor has been retained to review another counselor who is in question; and when
confidentiality rights would be violated
14. What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to?
Answer Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches beneficial to specific groups and an approach
that all counselors should ethically be aware of
1. When beginning a counseling relationship, you are ethically required to
Answer Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
2. As you begin a counseling relationship, it is important to
Answer jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the counseling process will proceed
3. A client arrives for counseling with the presenting complaint of relationship
difficulties. She goes on to describe that she has had multiple abortions, and
seems to use abortion as a birth control method. You are personally opposed
to abortion. How should your personal beliefs impact the therapeutic relation- ship?
Answer Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on the therapeutic relationship
4. You have been involved in a counseling relationship with a client for six
months, when he presents you with a small gift. What should you do?
Answer Accept or decline depending on the circumstances
5. You are court-ordered to disclose confidential information about a client you
,are counseling. What do you do?
Answer Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal information and obtain written
permission from your client to share confidential information
6. What should you do if your client requests to see his confidential file?
Answer Accept or decline depending upon circumstances
7. You are a counselor with several clients, and at the same time you are
adjusting to a difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or eating well, find you are
highly distractible, and generally are less in-touch with your emotional state.
You should...
Answer Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if continuing with your clients poses any threat
of being detrimental to the counseling process
8. A former client of yours has been arrested for a crime. As his former coun-
selor, you are called to perform a forensic evaluation. What is your responsibility
in this case?
Answer It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on a current or past client, so you should
,decline
9. You are the supervisor for a new counselor, and are asked to attend her
wedding. Would it be ethical to do so?
Answer Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a breach of ethics
10. While involved with a research study, you learn that several of your stu-
dents are using confidential material in an unethical manner. You had no prior
knowledge of this, and all of your safeguards for professional practice were
, appropriate. Are you, as the principal researcher, responsible for the student's
behavior
Answer Yes, you are ultimately responsible
11. When publishing research, it is important to
Answer Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize, and submit material to only one
journal at a time
12. When a conflict arises between the American Counseling Association (ACA)
Code of Ethics and a governing authority, which takes precedence?
Answer Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
13. An ethics violation should NOT be reported when
Answer A counselor has been retained to review another counselor who is in question; and when
confidentiality rights would be violated
14. What does multicultural/diversity counseling refer to?
Answer Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches beneficial to specific groups and an approach
that all counselors should ethically be aware of
