Solution Manual & Test Bank for Choices: Interviewing and
Counselling Skills for Canadians, 7th edition by Bob Shebib
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, Shebib, Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, Seventh Canadian Edition
Chapter 1 Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
Bob Shebib
Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, 7/e
Test Bank
Chapter One
Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Ethics are
a. skills and techniques for working with clients
b. government legislation that regulates professionals
c. what one considers to be important
d. principles and rules of proper conduct
e. personal beliefs governing behaviour
(Answer: “d” page 3)
2. Which of the following professionals are licensed to prescribe medication?
a. psychiatrists
b. psychologists with a Ph.D. degree
c. social workers who have received specialized training
d. any counselling professional with at least a Master’s degree
e. chiropractors
(Answer: “a” page 2)
3. Social justice commitment implies that counsellors
a. work with law enforcement officials to combat crime
b. treat all clients the same
c. respect individual difference
d. use advocacy to promote human rights and income redistribution
e. assess clients based on community standards
(Answer: “d” page 3)
4. Professional ethics
a. are designed to protect both clients and counsellors
b. encourage dual relationships with clients
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Chapter 1 Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
c. require the use of psychiatric diagnosis
d. enable counsellors to blend personal values with agency standards
e. define the benefits of counselling
(Answer “a”, page 3)
5. Which of the following represents a “dual relationship?”
a. co-signing a loan for a client
b. buying a car from a client
c. dating a client
d. social involvement with a client
e. all of the above
(Answer: “e” page 5)
6. With respect to physical contact with clients
a. it is never acceptable
b. touch may be an important component of working with children
c. touch, while a natural part of human interaction, has no place in professional
counselling
d. it is acceptable only when the counsellor and the client are the same gender
e. should be confined to a hand shake, but only if initiated by the client
(Answer: “b” page 5)
7. Absolute confidentiality means
a. counsellors can share information only with the police if there is an emergency
b. counsellors cannot share information with anyone
c. counsellors can share information only within the agency
d. counsellors can share information if they have permission from the court
e. counsellors must consult supervisors before sharing information
(Answer: “b” page 6)
8. Relative confidentiality means
a. counsellors can share information only with the police if there is an emergency
b. counsellors cannot share information with anyone
c. counsellors can share information with their clients’ family members
d. counsellors can share information if they have permission from the court
e. confidentiality cannot be guaranteed because of legal constraints
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Chapter 1 Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
(Answer: “e” page 6)
9. The Tarasoff case established
a. the “duty to warn” principle
b. that professionals must maintain absolute confidentiality
c. criteria for reporting child abuse and neglect
d. protection for counsellors who maintain relationship confidentiality
e. none of the above
(Answer: “a” page 6)
10. The principle that clients have a right to freedom of choice is known as
a. empowerment
b. self-determination
c. informed consent
d. advocacy
e. ethics
(Answer: “b” page 9)
11. Professional values are concerned with:
a. rules governing confidentiality
b. the importance of choice
c. a reflection of what the profession considers important
d. the benefits of counseling
e. the price of counselling
(Answer: “c” page 8)
12. Which of the following best defines the term self-determination?
a. acknowledgment that clients have a right to make their own decision
b. respect for cultural and other diversity variables
c. recognition that every client is different
d. belief in the dignity of clients
e. goal setting
(Answer: “a” page 9)
10. Objectivity is
a. the capacity to understand without imposing bias or distortion
b. treating clients as objects
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Counselling Skills for Canadians, 7th edition by Bob Shebib
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, Shebib, Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, Seventh Canadian Edition
Chapter 1 Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
Bob Shebib
Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, 7/e
Test Bank
Chapter One
Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Ethics are
a. skills and techniques for working with clients
b. government legislation that regulates professionals
c. what one considers to be important
d. principles and rules of proper conduct
e. personal beliefs governing behaviour
(Answer: “d” page 3)
2. Which of the following professionals are licensed to prescribe medication?
a. psychiatrists
b. psychologists with a Ph.D. degree
c. social workers who have received specialized training
d. any counselling professional with at least a Master’s degree
e. chiropractors
(Answer: “a” page 2)
3. Social justice commitment implies that counsellors
a. work with law enforcement officials to combat crime
b. treat all clients the same
c. respect individual difference
d. use advocacy to promote human rights and income redistribution
e. assess clients based on community standards
(Answer: “d” page 3)
4. Professional ethics
a. are designed to protect both clients and counsellors
b. encourage dual relationships with clients
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Chapter 1 Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
c. require the use of psychiatric diagnosis
d. enable counsellors to blend personal values with agency standards
e. define the benefits of counselling
(Answer “a”, page 3)
5. Which of the following represents a “dual relationship?”
a. co-signing a loan for a client
b. buying a car from a client
c. dating a client
d. social involvement with a client
e. all of the above
(Answer: “e” page 5)
6. With respect to physical contact with clients
a. it is never acceptable
b. touch may be an important component of working with children
c. touch, while a natural part of human interaction, has no place in professional
counselling
d. it is acceptable only when the counsellor and the client are the same gender
e. should be confined to a hand shake, but only if initiated by the client
(Answer: “b” page 5)
7. Absolute confidentiality means
a. counsellors can share information only with the police if there is an emergency
b. counsellors cannot share information with anyone
c. counsellors can share information only within the agency
d. counsellors can share information if they have permission from the court
e. counsellors must consult supervisors before sharing information
(Answer: “b” page 6)
8. Relative confidentiality means
a. counsellors can share information only with the police if there is an emergency
b. counsellors cannot share information with anyone
c. counsellors can share information with their clients’ family members
d. counsellors can share information if they have permission from the court
e. confidentiality cannot be guaranteed because of legal constraints
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, Shebib, Choices: Interviewing and Counselling Skills for Canadians, Seventh Canadian Edition
Chapter 1 Professional Identity: Ethics, Values, and Self-Awareness
(Answer: “e” page 6)
9. The Tarasoff case established
a. the “duty to warn” principle
b. that professionals must maintain absolute confidentiality
c. criteria for reporting child abuse and neglect
d. protection for counsellors who maintain relationship confidentiality
e. none of the above
(Answer: “a” page 6)
10. The principle that clients have a right to freedom of choice is known as
a. empowerment
b. self-determination
c. informed consent
d. advocacy
e. ethics
(Answer: “b” page 9)
11. Professional values are concerned with:
a. rules governing confidentiality
b. the importance of choice
c. a reflection of what the profession considers important
d. the benefits of counseling
e. the price of counselling
(Answer: “c” page 8)
12. Which of the following best defines the term self-determination?
a. acknowledgment that clients have a right to make their own decision
b. respect for cultural and other diversity variables
c. recognition that every client is different
d. belief in the dignity of clients
e. goal setting
(Answer: “a” page 9)
10. Objectivity is
a. the capacity to understand without imposing bias or distortion
b. treating clients as objects
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