NAADAC code of ethics questions with correct answers

Addiction Professionals understand and accept their responsibility to ensure the safety and welfare of their client, and to act for the good of each client while exercising respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Providers shall treat each client with dignity, honor, and respect, and act in the best interest of each client. - Answer PRINCIPLE I: THE COUNSELING RELATIONSHIP (Client Welfare) Addiction Professionals understand the right of each client to be fully informed about treatment, and shall provide clients with information in clear and understandable language regarding the purposes, risks, limitations, and costs of treatment services, reasonable alternatives, their right to refuse services, and their right to withdraw consent within time frames delineated in the consent. Providers have an obligation to review with their client - in writing and verbally - the rights and responsibilities of both Providers and clients. Providers shall have clients attest to their understanding of the parameters covered by the Informed Consent. - Answer PRINCIPLE I: THE COUNSELING RELATIONSHIP (Informed Consent) Informed Consent shall include: explicit explanation as to the nature of all services to be provided and methodologies and theories typically utilized, purposes, goals, techniques, procedures, limitations, potential risks, and benefits of services, the addiction professional's qualifications, credentials, relevant experience, and approach to counseling, right to confidentiality and explanation of its limits including duty to warn, policies regarding continuation of services upon the incapacitation or death of the counselor,