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.

                       , with regard to family-of-origin issues, is particularly critical for family therapists.

Which of the following is NOT true concerning therapeutic use of the DSM-5 to diagnose clients?

If each professional organization developed specific guidelines pertaining to students’ successful completion of a program, faculty in training programs: