Rights and Responsibilities, and Accountabilities of Counselors (Counseling Relationship)

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Counselors' Rights and Responsibilities Quiz

Test your knowledge on the essential rights and responsibilities of counselors in fostering effective counseling relationships. This quiz covers vital topics such as client welfare, respecting diversity, and ethical practices in counseling.

By participating in this quiz, you will:

Enhance your understanding of the counselor-client relationship
Learn about the ethical guidelines that govern counseling practices
Identify key responsibilities of counselors to promote client welfare

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Counselor’s primary responsibility is to respect the dignity and promote the welfare of clients. They are also expected to encourage client’s growth. Counselors and clients are expected to work together in crafting individual counseling plans consistent with the client’s circumstances.

Clients Served by others

Personal Needs and values

Sexual Intimacies with Clients

Client welfare

Counselors do not engage in discrimination based on age, color, culture, disability, ethnic group, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, marital status and socio economic status. Counselors shall respect differences and understand the diverse cultural backgrounds of their clients.

Personal Needs and values

Respecting Diversity

Group Work

Multiple Clients

Counselors shall disclose the purposes, goals, techniques, procedures, limitations, potential risks, benefits of the services to be performed and other pertinent information to the client throughout the counseling process. Counselors offer clients the freedom to choose whether to enter into a counseling relationship and determine which professional will provide counseling, except when the client is unable to give consent.

Client Rights

Respecting Diversity

Dual Relationships

Fees

In cases where the client is receiving services from another mental health professional, with clients consent, inform the professional person already involved to develop an agreement.

Sexual Intimacies with Clients

Personal Needs and values

Clients Served by others

Fees

Maintain the clients and avoid actions that seek to meet their personal needs at the expense of the clients. Counselors shall be aware of their values, attitudes, beliefs, and behavior and how these apply in a diverse society and avoid imposing their values on clients.

Sexual Intimacies with Clients

Personal Needs and values

Dual Relationships

Client Rights

Counselors are aware of their influential position over their clients avoid the exploiting the trust and dependency of the clients. Counselors should not accept as superiors or subordinates clients’.

Client Rights

Multiple Clients

Sexual Intimacies with Clients

Dual Relationships

Counselors should not have any type of sexual intimacies with clients and do not counsel persons with whom they have sexual relationship. Counselors should not also engage with sexual intimacies with their former clients within a minimum of two years.

Sexual Intimacies with Clients

Client welfare

Client Rights

Dual Relationships

In cases where counselors agree to provide counseling services to two or more persons who have a relationship, counselors clarify at the outset which person or persons are clients and the nature of relationship they will have with each other involved person.

Personal Needs and values

Multiple Clients

Client Rights

Sexual Intimacies with Clients

Counselors screen prospective group counseling / therapy participants to determine those with compatible needs. In group setting, counselors take reasonable precautions to protect clients from physical or psychological trauma.

Client Rights

Client welfare

Personal Needs and values

Group Work

Prior to entering the counseling relationship, the counselors clearly explain the clients all financial arrangements related to professional fees.

Client Rights

Fees

Respecting Diversity

Dual Relationships

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