On page 125 and following, Kottler describes the behavior of some of his most difficult clients.  Discuss which client behaviors patterns will be most difficult for you and why.  (10 Points)

Miguel has been providing couples’ counseling to Saundra and Steven for a couple of years and was recently invited to attend their 20th wedding anniversary party. Attending this event is an example of:

Registry is generally a voluntary listing of individuals who use a title or provide a service.                      represents the least degree of regulation of professional practice.

In this court case, the court found that school counselors have a duty to use reasonable means to attempt to prevent a suicide when they know about a student’s suicidal intentions. The reasoning of the court was that an adolescent is more likely to share thoughts of suicide with friends than with a school counselor, teacher, or parent. The court found that reasonable care would have included notifying the student’s parents that their daughter was at risk for suicide.

                              is at the core of effective therapy; it is the counselor’s ethical duty to protect private client communication.

In                       , the court expanded the practitioner’s duty to warn those in danger to include the circumstance in which a family member communicates to a mental health practitioner a belief that the client poses a risk of grave bodily injury to another

Competence in working with couples and families only comes with:

_________________ is a serious breach that results in harm to clients and is therefore unethical.

A common reaction of therapists who realize that they have sexual feelings towards their clients is to:

                      views psychological and relational problems as arising from within the individual’s present environment and the intergenerational family system.