NCE 2025: Complete Guide to the National Counseling
Examination
c. 1990 - correct answer ✔✔When was the original Code of Ethics for counselors introduced?
a. 1964
b. 1977
c. 1990
d. 2014
d. Clients must give informed consent before any personal information of PHI can be shared
with others. - correct answer ✔✔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.
b. Immanuel Kant - correct answer ✔✔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
,a. Competence - correct answer ✔✔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
b. Ethical codes can be trusted on their own to maintain a virtue ethics perspective. - correct
answer ✔✔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.
a. The National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors and the National Board
for Certified Counselors (NBCC) - correct answer ✔✔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
d. Ethical practice standards - correct answer ✔✔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
d. Virginia - correct answer ✔✔What state passed the first counseling licensure laws?
a. Alabama
b. Arkansas
c. California
d. Virginia
b. The executive branch - correct answer ✔✔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
c. Corporate level - correct answer ✔✔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
, d. Succinct terms - correct answer ✔✔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
a. Qualitative data - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following depends on the opinions of the
observer or the subject, with the researcher's interpretation of the data being an important
element?
a. Qualitative data
b. Predictive data
c. Comparative data
d. Objective data
a. Exploratory research design - correct answer ✔✔What common research study design is
often used when little is known about a particular problem or issue?
a. Exploratory research design
b. Descriptive survey design
c. Experimental studies
d. Diagnostic studies
c. Nominal - correct answer ✔✔What category of measurement is used when two or more
named variable exist (male/female, pass/fail, etc.)?
a. Ratio
b. Interval
c. Nominal
Examination
c. 1990 - correct answer ✔✔When was the original Code of Ethics for counselors introduced?
a. 1964
b. 1977
c. 1990
d. 2014
d. Clients must give informed consent before any personal information of PHI can be shared
with others. - correct answer ✔✔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.
b. Immanuel Kant - correct answer ✔✔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
,a. Competence - correct answer ✔✔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
b. Ethical codes can be trusted on their own to maintain a virtue ethics perspective. - correct
answer ✔✔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.
a. The National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors and the National Board
for Certified Counselors (NBCC) - correct answer ✔✔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
d. Ethical practice standards - correct answer ✔✔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
d. Virginia - correct answer ✔✔What state passed the first counseling licensure laws?
a. Alabama
b. Arkansas
c. California
d. Virginia
b. The executive branch - correct answer ✔✔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
c. Corporate level - correct answer ✔✔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
, d. Succinct terms - correct answer ✔✔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
a. Qualitative data - correct answer ✔✔Which of the following depends on the opinions of the
observer or the subject, with the researcher's interpretation of the data being an important
element?
a. Qualitative data
b. Predictive data
c. Comparative data
d. Objective data
a. Exploratory research design - correct answer ✔✔What common research study design is
often used when little is known about a particular problem or issue?
a. Exploratory research design
b. Descriptive survey design
c. Experimental studies
d. Diagnostic studies
c. Nominal - correct answer ✔✔What category of measurement is used when two or more
named variable exist (male/female, pass/fail, etc.)?
a. Ratio
b. Interval
c. Nominal
