Exam 8: Professional Competence and Training

A school counselor was working with Quan,whose presenting problem was anxiety pertaining to academic success in college.This was within the scope of the school counselor's training.However,during the course of therapy,Quan became very depressed and engaged in self-mutilation and other forms of self-destructive behavior.Quan's counselor recognized that these symptoms and behaviors reflected a problem area that was outside the scope of his practice.Ethical practice required that the school counselor:

To qualify as a substance abuse counselor,the CACREP (2016)standards identify specific knowledge,skills,and practices in all of the following areas EXCEPT:

According to the authors,a good training program encourages students to:

Those who are responsible for educating and training mental health professionals are ethically and professionally obligated to:

Barriers to dismissing a student who demonstrates dysfunctional interpersonal behavior from a training program include all of the following EXCEPT:

____________ statutes determine and govern professional practice.

In ___________,the Supreme Court considered that the student had been informed of the faculty's dissatisfaction with her clinical performance,and the student knew that unless she made significant improvement in this area,she would be dismissed from the program.The Court held that the decision to dismiss the student from medical school was based on a careful and deliberate evaluation by the faculty,and thus the student's dismissal was not a violation of her constitutional rights.

In the ______________ court case,the court ruled that the student was provided adequate due process,that the university had the obligation to uphold professional standards,that the university's policies and procedures were enunciated in the graduate catalog and other departmental documents,and that the faculty had followed these procedures.

Most professional organizations support efforts to:

Which of the following statements is NOT true with respect to counselor competence?