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

The HIPAA Privacy Rule was designed to provide a uniform level of privacy and security on the federal This Privacy Rule, which applies to both paper and electronic transmissions of protected health information by covered entities, developed out of the concern that transmission of health care information through electronic means could lead to widespread gaps in the protection of client confidentiality. Which of the following is NOT a requirement of The Privacy Rule?

All of the following are true about bartering EXCEPT:

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

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

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:

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

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

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.