Technology & Digital Tools Flashcards

A counselor wants to use an online community forum to provide peer support for students in recovery. The PRIMARY ethical concern to address first is:

Answer: Ensuring participant confidentiality and informed consent about the digital environment's privacy limitations

Digital peer support groups must establish clear confidentiality parameters and informed consent because online environments have inherent privacy risks.

Which type of software is MOST appropriate for a SAC counselor to use when conducting a needs assessment across an entire school population?

Answer: Survey platform with anonymous response capability and disaggregated data reporting

Validated survey platforms with anonymity and data disaggregation support ethical, large-scale needs assessment while protecting individual student identities.

A student discloses during a telehealth session that they are currently in danger. The counselor's first technology-related action should be:

Answer: Keep the student on the video session while simultaneously contacting emergency services or a colleague for in-person response

Maintaining the telehealth connection preserves safety monitoring while emergency resources are activated, consistent with standard crisis protocol adapted for digital settings.

A school SAP team uses a shared electronic case-management platform. To comply with 42 CFR Part 2 for students with substance use histories, access should be:

Answer: Restricted to only staff with a documented need-to-know and explicit student consent for disclosure

42 CFR Part 2 requires specific written consent for each disclosure of substance use disorder information, making broad staff access non-compliant.

What is the primary benefit of using geolocation-based analytics in a SAC program's community needs assessment?

Answer: Identifying neighborhood-level risk factors such as proximity to licensed alcohol outlets or drug treatment deserts

Geolocation analytics help counselors understand environmental risk factors at the community level, informing targeted prevention resource deployment.

A school district is evaluating e-learning modules for student substance use prevention. Evidence-based selection criteria should prioritize modules that:

Answer: Have outcome data from peer-reviewed studies showing reductions in use or risk factors

Evidence-based practice requires selecting digital curricula with peer-reviewed efficacy data demonstrating actual behavioral or risk-factor outcomes.

When a counselor uses automated email reminders to prompt students to complete follow-up check-ins, which best practice should govern the communication?

Answer: Messages should be non-identifying and not reference counseling or behavioral health in the subject line

Automated communications must protect confidentiality; a neutral subject line prevents inadvertent disclosure of a student's participation in counseling services.