HDFS 3090: Final Exam

Dr. Plauche Professional Ethics Class Final Exam. Based on her study guide 2024

need to tell people what to do, strong desire to relieve all pain from clients, need to have all answers and be perfect

What are some examples of personal needs of counselors based on unresolved personal conflicts?

True

Counselors must be aware of the influence of their own personality and needs. T/F

counselors participating in personal therapy

What are these reasons for?

• to explore your values and motivations for becoming a helper

• how your needs influence your actions and how you use power in your life

• to identify and explore your blind spots and potential areas of countertransference

• for remediation purposes

personal therapy

What is a necessary form of ongoing self-care for counselors that is beneficial for both trainees and experienced practitioners?

transference

What is the process whereby clients project onto their therapists past feelings or attitudes they had toward significant people in their lives?

• counselors must be aware of their personal reactions to this

• all reactions of clients to a therapist should not be considered this

• dealing with this appropriately is an ethical concern

countertransference

What is the therapist’s total emotional response to a client including feelings, associations, fantasies, and fleeting images?

countertransference

What occurs when clinicians:

• demonstrate inappropriate affect

• respond in highly defensive ways

• lose their objectivity because their own conflicts are triggered

false

Countertransference can be only a constructive or a deconstructive element in the therapeutic relationship. T/F

examples of countertransference

What are these examples of?

• being overprotective with a client

• treating clients in benign ways

• rejecting a client

• needing constant reinforcement and approval

• seeing yourself in your clients

• developing sexual or romantic feelings for a client

• giving advice compulsively

• desiring a social relationship with clients

sources of stress for counselors

What are these?

• feeling they are not helping their clients

• accept full responsibility for clients’ progress

• feeling pressure to quickly solve clients’ problems

• extremely high personal goals and perfectionistic strivings

burnout

______ is a state of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual depletion characterized by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.

impairment

_____ is the presence of chronic illness or severe psychological depletion that is likely to prevent a professional from delivering effective services.

impairment

What results in consistently functioning below acceptable practice standards?

self-care

What are positive actions that promote wellness and effective coping?

• includes routine positive practices and mindful attention to one’s physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual selves

• this is an essential part of professional competence and personal wellness

True

Sustaining the personal self is an ethical obligation. T/F

self-compassion

______ can enhance counselor well-being, counselor effectiveness in the workplace, and therapeutic relationships with clients.

false

Clients do not benefit from a counselor’s mindfulness practices even if clients are not practicing mindfulness themselves. T/F

vitality

What is the state of being strong and active?

boundary crossings or multiple relationships

________ or ________ increase the possibility for therapists to misuse their power to influence and exploit clients for their own benefit and to the clients’ detriment. Some suggest that it is good practice to abstain from this but not always possible.

boundary crossing

______ is a departure from commonly accepted practices that could potentially benefit clients.

boundary crossing

Attending a student’s school play or sports event to build a positive relationship with him or her. What is this an example of?

boundary violation

______ is a serious breach that results in harm to clients and is therefore unethical.

boundary violation

A gradual erosion of boundaries that leads to sexual exploitation of the client. This is an example of what?

minimize

These are measures that ____ the risks of multiple relationships.

• set healthy boundaries from the outset

• secure informed consent of clients

• discuss both potential risks and benefits

• consult with other professionals to resolve any dilemmas

• seek supervision when needed

• document in clinical case notes

• examine your own motivations

• refer when necessary

social relationships with clients

What are these disadvantages of?

• Therapists may not challenge clients they know socially because of a need to be liked and accepted by the client.

• Counselors’ own needs may be enmeshed with those of their clients to the point that objectivity is lost.

• Counselors are at greater risk of exploiting clients because of the power differential in the therapeutic relationship.

• Former clients may need you more as a therapist at some future time than as a friend.

82 cents

Women still earn _____ for every $1 men earn (uncontrolled comparison).

$300,000

What is the estimated lifetime wage gap of women compared to men?

discrimination, types of positions and fields, and children

What are some reasons as to why there is an inequality between wages?

98 cents

When controlled for life choices/experiences/gender-pay-gap, women earn ____ for every dollar men earn.

full-time v. part-time work and limits years of experience

Why does having children impact women’s earnings?

glass escalator

What speeds up for men in “female” jobs?

glass ceiling

What slows down women in “male” jobs?

glass ceiling

A woman in the engineering field being passed up for promotions for no known reason is an example of _____.

glass escalator

A male teacher being encouraged and given more promotions than other teachers is an example of _____.

the second shift

What is the emotional and physical labor performed apart from paid work to keep household running smoothly and happy (and cleanly)?

women

What gender performs more of the second shift?

the stalled revolution

Women have moved into the workforce but still bear the brunt of the second shift (housework and childcare) is called _____.

confidentiality

What is the right to privacy/ the right to be left alone and control your own personal information?

• informed consent and explanation is crucial

• client can waive

• group therapy often excluded

Jaffee v. Redmond 1996

What case legally protected communication (privileged communication), also known as confidentiality?

fixed mindset

People that often focus on the familiar and feel their abilities can’t change, and have the belief that there is no use in putting time into training, learning, or development, have what mindset?

• with this mindset, they feel that their current skill level and intelligence will give them the success they desire

fixed mindset

You have been dealing with some health issues that have limited your mobility. But your doctor has been asking you to get out and walk a quarter of a mile each day. Sadly, you don’t do it because you are convinced that you can’t walk that far, and even if you could, things won’t get any better for you physically. No amount of encouragement from your family, friends, or doctor can make you do it. You believe your body has pre-established physical limits, and walking for a half-mile is beyond those limits. What mindset is this?

growth mindset

People that welcome new challenges or have an open mind have what type of mindset?

• this shows a willingness to accept new pieces of information that become more relevant to you than the previous information you have been operating with

• believe they can grow more intelligent, knowledgeable, and skillful over time

growth mindset

I used to help my grandfather out a lot on his farm, so we had plenty of opportunities to talk. However, one day he asked me if I was doing better. I didn't know what to think of the question, but I answered anyway and said, “Yes, Sir! I am.” Consequently, he would ask me the same question week after week, and I often answered the same way. Finally, I got up the nerve to ask him why he always asked me that question. He stated, “You should always be doing better.” What mindset does his grandfather have?

career and self-development, communication, critical thinking, equity and inclusion, leadership, professionalism, teamwork, technology

What are the 8 career readiness competencies?

career and self-development

What career competency is to proactively develop oneself and one’s career through continual personal and professional learning, awareness of one’s strengths and weaknesses, navigation of career opportunities, and networking to build relationships within and without one’s organization?

career readiness

What is a foundation from which to demonstrate requisite core competencies that broadly prepare the college educated for success in the workplace and lifelong career management?

communication

What career competency is to clearly and effectively exchange information, ideas, facts, and perspectives with persons inside and outside of an organization?

critical thinking

What career competency is to identify and respond to needs based upon an understanding of situational context and logical analysis of relevant information?

equity and inclusion

What career competency is to demonstrate the awareness, attitude, knowledge, and skills required to equitably engage and include people from different local and global cultures, and engage in anti-racist practices that actively challenge the systems, structures, and policies of racism?

leadership

What career competency is to recognize and capitalize on personal and team strengths to achieve organizational goals?

professionalism

What career competency is knowing work environments differ greatly, understand and demonstrate effective work habits, and act in the interest of the larger community and workplace?

teamwork

What career competency is to build and maintain collaborative relationships to work effectively toward common goals, while appreciating diverse viewpoints and shared responsibilities?

technology

What career competency is to understand and leverage technologies ethically to enhance efficiencies, complete tasks, and accomplish goals?

relational ethics

What ethics approach allows for a careful examination of the multiple relationships that parent and family life educators encounter as a step towards applying principles?

• provides a starting place for understanding relationships as the context for making ethical decisions

• goal: striving caring relationships in all professional interactions

• provides both process and content for ethical behavior

• general principles for developing caring, respectful relationships with family members are outlined in this section

principles approach to ethics

What ethics approach allows parents and family life educators as a group to articulate important principles that can guide interactions with different populations?

• they are intended to guide parent and family life educators in everyday decisions and actions.

• linked to relational ethics approach by organizing principles around the concept of relationships

virtue ethics

What ethics approach attempts to fill in a gap in our current way of defining professional behavior that tends to focus more on technical competence than on moral character?

• involves the more individual lens

virtues

What are dispositions to do the right thing for the right reason?

second level

What level of virtues included those virtues that are essential for ethical practice in the current social context for parent and family life education?

first level

What level of virtues identifies core virtues that are necessary for every profession including justice, truthfulness, and courage?

caring, prudence/practical wisdom, and hope/optimism

What are the three essential virtues that have emerged from the discussions between Ethics Committee members and practitioners?

caring

What virtue is a disposition to enhance the welfare of family members as agents in their own lives?

prudence/practical wisdom

What virtue is the ability to understand competing needs and decisions based on reflection and consultation?

hope/optimism

What virtue is a disposition to look at the strengths of family members and other individuals and to see positive potential in situations related to family life?

essential virtues

What provides family life educators with internal strengths to think and behave in an ethical manner?

parents and families, children and youth, colleagues and the profession, and community and society

What are the four core relationships of a family life educator?

identification of relationships, identification of principles, identification of contradictions/tensions, identification of possible solutions, and selection of actions

What are the 5 process steps?

step 1

What step in the ethical decision making process is this?

• identify important relationships in the situation using the educator role as the primary focal point

  • what is the relational field - what are all potential relationships in the case?

  • what is the primary caring relationship the educator needs to address in this case?

  • what do we know about this relationship - quality, stage of development, etc.?

step 2

What step in the ethical decision making process is this?

• look over the list of principles to identify those that apply to the important relationship(s) in this situation.

• decide which principles may be relevant to guiding ethical behavior.

• are there any additional principles that might apply? which are the three or four most relevant principles? Why?

step 3

What step in the ethical decision making process is this?

• what are some potential/actual contradictions or tensions among or between relevant principles?

step 4

What step in the ethical decision making process is this?

• brainstorm possible actions by the parent and family life educator - keeping in mind the relationship(s), the relevant principles, and the virtues

step 5

What step in the ethical decision making process is this?

• select one action or combination of actions to use that reflects adherence to the ethical principles.

• all of the principles are important and should be addressed in a thoughtful and respectful manner

headshot, cover photo, headline, primary position, experiences, about section, recommendations, volunteer work, and projects

What are the main things to include on your LinkedIn?

False

Mental health professionals do not have the ethical and legal and professional duty to safeguard clients from unauthorized disclosures of information given in the therapeutic relationship. T/F

confidentiality

Without ____, clients would not trust counselors to keep their information private and therefore will not make deep self-disclosure that are necessary for the therapeutic relationships.