CPCE Exam!! UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
When beginning a counseling relationship, Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
you are ethically required to
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the
important to counseling process will proceed
A client arrives for counseling with the Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on
presenting complaint of relationship the therapeutic 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 relationship?
You have been involved in a counseling Accept or decline depending on the circumstances
relationship with a client for six months,
when he presents you with a small gift. What
should you do?
You are court-ordered to disclose Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal
confidential information about a client you information and obtain written permission from your client to
are counseling. What do you do? share confidential information
What should you do if your client requests Accept or decline depending upon circumstances
to see his confidential file?
, You are a counselor with several clients, and Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if
at the same time you are adjusting to a continuing with your clients poses any threat of being
difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or detrimental to the counseling process
eating well, find you are highly distractible,
and generally are less in-touch with your
emotional state. You should...
A former client of yours has been arrested It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on
for a crime. As his former counselor, you are a current or past client, so you should decline
called to perform a forensic evaluation.
What is your responsibility in this case?
You are the supervisor for a new counselor, Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a
and are asked to attend her wedding. Would breach of ethics
it be ethical to do so?
While involved with a research study, you Yes, you are ultimately responsible
learn that several of your students 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
When publishing research, it is important to Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize,
and submit material to only one journal at a time
When a conflict arises between the Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
American Counseling Association (ACA)
Code of Ethics and a governing authority,
which takes precedence?
An ethics violation should NOT be reported A counselor has been retained to review another counselor
when who is in question; and when confidentiality rights would be
violated
What does multicultural/diversity counseling Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches
refer to? beneficial to specific groups and an approach that all
counselors should ethically be aware of
Most ethical issues are related to Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental Erik Erikson
theory covers the entire lifespan. Who is he?
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to Sigmund Freud
which psychoanalyst?
What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four Formal Operations
stages
CORRECT Answers
When beginning a counseling relationship, Inform the patient of the limits of confidentiality
you are ethically required to
As you begin a counseling relationship, it is jointly decide, between patient and counselor, how the
important to counseling process will proceed
A client arrives for counseling with the Your personal belief system should not have any bearing on
presenting complaint of relationship the therapeutic 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 relationship?
You have been involved in a counseling Accept or decline depending on the circumstances
relationship with a client for six months,
when he presents you with a small gift. What
should you do?
You are court-ordered to disclose Limit, as much as possible, any possibly damaging personal
confidential information about a client you information and obtain written permission from your client to
are counseling. What do you do? share confidential information
What should you do if your client requests Accept or decline depending upon circumstances
to see his confidential file?
, You are a counselor with several clients, and Be alert to your mental status, and be able to determine if
at the same time you are adjusting to a continuing with your clients poses any threat of being
difficult divorce. You aren't sleeping or detrimental to the counseling process
eating well, find you are highly distractible,
and generally are less in-touch with your
emotional state. You should...
A former client of yours has been arrested It is not considered ethical to perform a forensic evaluation on
for a crime. As his former counselor, you are a current or past client, so you should decline
called to perform a forensic evaluation.
What is your responsibility in this case?
You are the supervisor for a new counselor, Yes, you should be able to attend her wedding without a
and are asked to attend her wedding. Would breach of ethics
it be ethical to do so?
While involved with a research study, you Yes, you are ultimately responsible
learn that several of your students 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
When publishing research, it is important to Give credit to other contributors or sources, not plagiarize,
and submit material to only one journal at a time
When a conflict arises between the Ultimately the law may be adhered to over the Code of Ethics
American Counseling Association (ACA)
Code of Ethics and a governing authority,
which takes precedence?
An ethics violation should NOT be reported A counselor has been retained to review another counselor
when who is in question; and when confidentiality rights would be
violated
What does multicultural/diversity counseling Counseling that recognizes diversity and approaches
refer to? beneficial to specific groups and an approach that all
counselors should ethically be aware of
Most ethical issues are related to Confidentiality
Only one psychoanalyst's developmental Erik Erikson
theory covers the entire lifespan. Who is he?
The Id, Ego, Superego are attributed to Sigmund Freud
which psychoanalyst?
What is the fourth stage of Jean Piaget's four Formal Operations
stages
