Ethics & Professional Standards in Career Counseling Flashcards

A career counselor who authored a career development book quotes extensively from a client's journal exercises without permission. This primarily violates the ethical principle of:

Answer: Confidentiality and informed consent

Publishing client-created materials without consent violates the client's confidentiality and right to control how their work is used.

When terminating services with a client who still has unmet career goals, the ethical counselor should:

Answer: Provide a summary of progress, discuss referral options, and ensure the client is not abandoned

Ethical termination involves summarizing progress, planning next steps, and making appropriate referrals to prevent client abandonment.

Which practice best demonstrates a career counselor's commitment to the ethical standard of cultural humility?

Answer: Continuously examining one's own biases, seeking feedback, and learning from clients about their cultural contexts

Cultural humility is an ongoing process of self-reflection, learning, and openness rather than a one-time competency achievement.

A career counselor who serves on the board of a nonprofit job training organization is approached by a client who wants to enroll in that program. The counselor should:

Answer: Disclose the dual relationship to the client and document it, then make the referral if appropriate

Transparency about dual relationships through disclosure and documentation allows the client to make an informed decision about the referral.

Under the ACA Code of Ethics, a career counselor who disagrees with a client's legal but personally objectionable career choice (e.g., working in the tobacco industry) should:

Answer: Provide competent assistance while respecting the client's autonomy

Counselors must respect client autonomy and provide competent services for legal career goals regardless of personal values differences.

A career counselor who learns that a client has falsified credentials on a job application has an ethical obligation to:

Answer: Explore the behavior with the client in session and encourage them to correct it, while respecting confidentiality

Confidentiality is maintained while the counselor ethically addresses the behavior therapeutically, absent a clear danger to identifiable others.

Professional supervision in career counseling serves which primary ethical function?

Answer: Providing oversight that protects client welfare and supports counselor professional development

Supervision's core ethical purpose is protecting clients by improving counselor effectiveness and catching blind spots or errors in clinical judgment.