2. Counselors should maintain written records for every client.
a. True
b. False

3. Counselors should inform each client, in written form, about the rights and responsibilities of both the counselor and the client.
a. True
b. False

4. If a client seeks help from a 2^nd counselor while still seeing the 1^st counselor, then the 2^nd counselor should obtain release from ____ in order to begin counseling with the client.
a. the client
b. the 1^st counselor

5. When terminally-ill clients are considering hastening their own deaths, a counselor may have the option of breaking confidentiality, if the counselor finds out from legal professionals that the applicable state laws allow the counselor to do so.
a. True
b. False

6. A counselor should never accept gifts from a client.
a. True
b. False

7. A counselor should terminate counseling if it is reasonably apparent to the counselor that the client no longer needs assistance.
a. True
b. False

8. Counselors who counsel electronically must inform clients if their distance counseling is not covered by insurance.
a. True
b. False

SECTION B -- CONFIDENTIALITY, PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION, and PRIVACY
9. If a client has a confirmed, contagious, life-threatening disease, and has not informed those who live with this client about this disease, a counselor is not justified in disclosing this information to those parties who are at risk of contracting this disease.
a. True
b. False

10. If subpoenaed to release confidential or privileged information without a client’s permission, the counselor has no choice but to comply with this court order.
a. True
b. False

11. When transferring records to legitimate third parties, it is sufficient for counselors to obtain verbal permission from the client for release from confidentiality.
a. True
b. False

12. When a counselor consults with a colleague or superior about a client case, the counselor should not divulge the identity of the client unless the client has consented to such disclosure.
a. True
b. False

SECTION C -- PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
13. Counselors should engage in counseling practices that are based on rigorous research methodologies.
a. True
b. False

14. Which is NOT true?
a. If counselors want to practice in new specialty areas, they can only after appropriate education, training, and supervised experience.
b. Counselors in private practice take reasonable steps to seek peer supervision as needed to evaluate their efficacy as counselors.
c. Counselors should maintain a reasonable level of awareness of current scientific and professional information in their fields of activity.
d. When counselors get tired or discouraged themselves, as everyone does from time to time, they do not need to limit or suspend their counseling responsibilities.

15. When counselors advertise their services to the public, they may not use testimonials from former clients who may be vulnerable to undue influence.
a. True
b. False

16. Counselors can still use a license designation (i.e. Licensed Professional Counselor -- LPC) even after their license has expired and has not been renewed.
a. True
b. False

17. If counselors have a master degree in the counseling field and a doctorate in a non-counseling field, the counselors can assign “Dr.” to their name on their counseling business cards.
a. True
b. False

18. Sexual harassment is defined as sexual solicitation, physical advances, or verbal or nonverbal conduct that is sexual in nature, that occurs in professional roles, and is either unwelcome and offensive, or is perceived as harassment to a reasonable person.
a. True
b. False

19. Counselors who use techniques and procedures that are not grounded in theory or do not have an empirical foundation must refer to such techniques and procedures as “unproven” or “developing.”
a. True
b. False

SECTION D -- RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS
20.When a counselor works for an agency or institution, and that organization then adopts a policy or procedure that the counselor sees as potentially disruptive or damaging to clients, then the counselor’s first strategy should be to threaten to expose the institution to the public if they don’t change their policy or procedure.
a. True
b. False

21. If one counselor seeks consultation from another counselor about a difficult client situation, which is NOT a goal of that consulting relationship?
a. To get the consulting counselor to change his or her approach to the client.
b. To clearly define the client’s problem.
c. To identify goals for how the client can change.
d. To discuss the predicted consequences of the interventions selected.

Section E -- EVALUATION, ASSESSMENT, and INTERPRETATION
22. Counselors may not use assessment instruments in their practices for which they have not been trained to use.
a. True
b. False

23. Counselors must make a diagnosis of mental disorders for every client.
a. True
b. False

24. Counselors can develop their own assessment tools if they don’t like current, established scientific procedures, without telling their clients that these new tools are untested.
a. True
b. False

SECTION F -- SUPERVISION, TRAINING, and TEACHING
25. The primary goal of supervision is twofold: to monitor client welfare, and to monitor supervisee clinical performance and professional development. This does NOT include
a. the supervisor reviewing the counselor’s case notes.
b. the supervisor taking the counselor’s place during actual counseling sessions.
c. the supervisor regularly pursuing continuing education activities, including both counseling and supervision topics and skills.
d. the supervisor possibly making live observations of the counselor’s counseling sessions.

26. Supervisors may not personally counsel their supervisees.
a. True
b. False

27. Counselor educators who teach counseling techniques or procedures that do not have an empirical foundation, or are without a well-grounded theoretical foundation, must refer to such techniques and procedures as “innovative” or “ground-breaking.”
a. True
b. False

28. Which is NOT a responsibility or expectation of counselors-in-training?
a. Before initiating counseling services, they should disclose their status as “students” to prospective clients.
b. They should pursue self-growth and self-disclosure.
c. They can talk about their counseling experiences in their training programs without obtaining clients’ permission to do so.
d. They should notify program supervisors when their own physical, mental, and emotional problems are likely to harm clients.

SECTION G -- RESEARCH and PUBLICATION
29. When research involves deception, and the deception does not cause physical or emotional harm to research participants, then the research investigator does not have an obligation to explain the reasons for the deception during the debriefing.
a. True
b. False

30. Researchers can academically fail students or supervisees who refuse to participate in educational research.
a. True
b. False

31. In reporting the results of their research, counselors must explicitly mention all known variables and conditions that have affected the outcome of their research study.
a. True
b. False

32. Counselors can submit their manuscripts to more than one journal publication at a time.
a. True
b. False

SECTION H -- RESOLVING ETHICAL ISSUES
33. When counselors are charged with unethical conduct, it is a legitimate defense for them to say they did not know or understand ahead of time that such conduct was unethical.
a. True
b. False

34. If one counselor has reason to believe that another counselor is violating an ethical standard, the first thing the counselor should do is report the alleged violation to that other counselor’s licensing board.
a. True
b. False