GHC HUST 203 Chapter 1
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154801425 | What is the first objective that codes of ethics fulfill as suggested by Herlihy and Corey? | Educates professionals about sound ethical conduct. | |
154801426 | What is the second objective that codes of ethics fulfill as suggested by Herlihy and Corey? | Provides a mechanism for professional accountability. | |
154801427 | What is the third objective that codes of ethics fulfill as suggested by Herlihy and Corey? | Serves as catalysts for improving practice. | |
154801428 | What is the primary purpose of a code of ethics? | To safeguard the welfare of clients by providing what is in their best interest. | |
154801429 | What is the secondary purpose of ethics? | To safeguard the public and to guide professionals in their work. | |
154801430 | What is the community standard as compared to the ethical standard? | What professionals actually do compared to what professionals should do. | |
154801431 | According to the Committee on Practice and Standards (2003) of the APA, what are ethics? | The standards that govern the conduct of its professional members. | |
154801432 | According to the Committee on Practice and Standards (2003) of the APA, what is law? | The body of rules that govern the affairs of people within a community, state, or country. | |
154801433 | What are values? | Beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living. | |
154801434 | What are ethics? | Beliefs we hold about what constitutes right conduct; moral principles adopted by an individual or group to provide rules for right conduct. | |
154801435 | What is morality? | The perspectives of right and proper conduct and involves an evaluation of actions on the basis of some broader cultural context or religious standard. | |
154801436 | What are community standards (mores)? | They vary on interdisciplinary, theoretical, and geographical bases; they often become the ultimate legal criteria for determining whether practitioners are liable for damages; they define what is considered reasonable behavior when a case involving malpractice is litigated. | |
154801437 | What is reasonableness? | The care that is ordinarily exercised by others practicing within that specialty in the professional community. | |
154801438 | Mandatory Ethics | A level of ethical functioning wherein counselors act in compliance with minimal standards, acknowledging the basic "musts" and "must nots." | |
154801439 | Aspirational Ethics | The highest standards of thinking and conduct professional counselors seek, and it requires that counselors do more than simple meet the letter of the ethics code. | |
154801440 | Principle Ethics | A set of obligations and a method that focuses on moral issues with the goals of (a) solving a particular dilemma or set of dilemmas and (b) establishing a framework to guide future ethical thinking and behavior. | |
154801441 | Virtue Ethics | Focuses on the character traits of the counselor and nonobligatory ideals to which professionals aspire rather than on solving specific ethical dilemmas. | |
154801442 | What are the four core virtues identified by Meara and colleagues (1996)? | Prudence, integrity, respectfulness, and benevolence. | |
154801443 | Autonomy | The promotion of self-determination, or the freedom of clients to be self-governing within their social and cultural framework. | |
154801444 | Nonmalefiecence | Avoiding doing harm, which included refraining from actions that risk hurting clients. | |
154801445 | Beneficence | Doing good for others and to promoting the well-being of clients; doing good for society. | |
154801446 | Justice | To be fair by giving equally to others and to treat others justly. | |
154801447 | Fidelity | Professionals make realistic commitments and keep those promises. | |
154801448 | Veracity | Truthfulness, which involves the practitioner's obligation to deal honestly with clients. | |
154801449 | Feminist Model of Ethical Decision Making | Maximum involvement of the client at every stage of the process; power should be equalized in the therapeutic relationship. | |
154801450 | Social Constructionist Model of Ethical Decision Making | Focuses primarily on the social aspects of decision making in counseling; interactive rather than an individual or intrapsychic process and places the decision in the social context itself, not in the mind of the person making the decision; negotiating, consensualizing, and when necessary arbitrating. | |
154801451 | Transcultural Integrative Model of Decision Making | Addresses the need for including cultural factors in the process of resolving ethical dilemmas. | |
154801452 | Step one in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Identify the problem or dilemma. | |
154801453 | Step two in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Identify the potential issues involved. | |
154801454 | Step three in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Review the relevant ethics codes. | |
154801455 | Step four in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Know the applicable laws and regulations | |
154801456 | Step five in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Obtain consultation | |
154801457 | Step six in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Consider possible and probably courses of action. | |
154801458 | Step seven in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Enumerate the consequences of various decisions | |
154801459 | Step eight in thinking through ethical dilemmas is what? | Choose what appears to be the best course of action | |
157115339 | In law versus ethics, what is Law? | The minimum standards society will tolerate and is enforced by government. | |
157115340 | In law versus ethics, what is Ethics? | The ideal standard set and is enforced by professional associations. | |
157115341 | What establishes the scope of practice of professionals and how these will be enforced by licensing boards? | State licensing laws. | |
157115342 | An example of mandatory ethics | Providing for informed consent in professional relationship. | |
157115343 | An example of aspirational ethics | Providing services pro bono for those in the community who cannot afford needed services. | |
157115344 | Principle ethics asks what? | Is this situation unethical? | |
157115345 | Virtue ethics asks what? | Am I doing what is best for my client? |