ACT Ethics & Professional Standards 2

Question 1

An ACT practitioner is working with a client who has begun dating someone the therapist knows socially. Which ethical principle is most at risk?

Accepted Answer

Boundary management

Answer

Multiple relationships that could impair judgment or harm the client represent a boundary management violation under professional ethics codes.

Question 2

When a supervisee discloses they are experiencing psychological fusion with a client's narrative, the supervisor's ethical obligation is to:

Accepted Answer

Use ACT processes to help the supervisee develop defusion skills

Answer

Supervision in ACT contexts involves modeling the same psychological flexibility processes to help supervisees work through countertransference fusion.

Question 3

A client's insurance company requests a detailed session-by-session progress report. The therapist's ethical duty is to:

Accepted Answer

Consult the client and release only information necessary for treatment authorization

Answer

Therapists must obtain client awareness and release only the minimum necessary information required by third-party payers.

Question 4

In ACT, the ethical stance toward a client's religious values is best described as:

Accepted Answer

Accepting values as the client's own and integrating them into values clarification work

Answer

ACT's values work is explicitly non-prescriptive; the therapist honors the client's chosen values including religious ones without imposing external standards.

Question 5

Which scenario best illustrates an ethical use of self-disclosure by an ACT therapist?

Accepted Answer

Briefly disclosing a relevant struggle to normalize the client's experience

Answer

Brief, purposeful self-disclosure that normalizes or models psychological flexibility is ethically appropriate; oversharing shifts focus away from the client.

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ACT Ethics & Professional Standards 2