is an organized system by which practitioners within a profession assess one another’s services.

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.

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:

A                approach to supervision is a necessary dimension of training for therapists who want to work with families.

Which of the following is NOT an essential piece of information the family practitioner must provide before each individual agrees to participate in family therapy?

Charles, a couples’ therapist, recently met with a new couple seeking his services. During their initial meeting, Charles learned that the wife and husband are both in individual therapy. As an ethical practitioner, he should:

Practicing counseling without an explicit theoretical rationale is somewhat like:

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

In working with couples and families, opportunities for ethical practice are increased by combining a systems perspective with traditional approaches. Due to the paradigm shift in the field of psychology to accommodate the changing needs of service recipients: