Ethics Ch. 3, 4, & 5

Culturally Encapsulated Counselor

A counselor who defines reality according to one set of cultural assumptions and shows insensitivity to cultural variations among individuals.

Cultural Pluralism

A perspective that recognizes that culture is complex and values diversity of beliefs and values.

Malpractice

Failure by a health professional to meet accepted standards

Multicultural Competencies

A set of knowledge and skills that are essential to the culturally skilled practitioner Clinicians do not have to master before they begin; should be an ongoing process.

Culture-Centered Counseling

A three-stage developmental sequence, from multicultural awareness to knowledge and comprehension to skills and applications Client's culture plays a central role in understanding their behavior.

Freedom of conscience clauses

Being inserted into legislation in an attempt to protect religious freedom

Professional Negligence

Can result from unjustified departure from usual practice or from failing to exercise proper care in fulfilling one's responsibilities.

Reasonable Care

From a legal perspective, mental health professionals are expected to exercise _________, and if they fail to do so, clients can take legal action against them for negligence.

Values Statement

Informs prospective students about the competencies they will be expected to develop during their training program. helps training programs prevent future legal and legislative battles

Informed Consent

Involves the right of clients to be informed about their therapy and to make autonomous decisions pertaining to it.

Ethical Bracketing

Managing personal values so that they do not unduly influence the counseling process Intentional setting aside of the counselor's personal values in order to provide ethical & appropriate counseling to all clients, especially those whose worldview, values, belief system, & decisions differ significantly from those of counselor.

Social Justice

Moves beyond cultural awareness and focuses on active support & advocacy, including promoting equality and justice for underserved and oppressed groups of people.

Cultural Empathy

Pertains to therapists' awareness of clients' worldviews, which is acknowledged in relation to therapists' awareness of their own personal bias.

Disability Community

Represent the largest minority and disadvantaged group in the US. prey to manipulation, wrong-doing, and human rights violation more than other groups. approach with empathy not sympathy.

Cultural Racism

The belief that one group's history, way of life, religion, values, and traditions are superior to others

Self-Exploratory Journey

The first step in the process of acquiring multicultural counseling skills. Ideally, this would help one identify any potential blind spots and would be required of all trainees in the mental health professions and would be supervised by someone with experience in multicultural issues

Supervision

Through _________, counselors in training can learn how to manage their values and how to avoid using their professional role to influence clients in a given direction or to make decisions for clients about how to live.

Multiculturalism

a generic term that indicates any relationship between and within two or more diverse groups

Cultural Tunnel Vision

a perception of reality based on a very limited set of cultural experiences.

Experiential Approach

a way to increase self-awareness and to identity and examine attitudes associated with diversity competence. Encourages trainees to pay attention to their thoughts, feelings, and actions in exploring their worldview.

Progress Notes

are a means of documenting aspects of a client's treatment and are kept in a client's clinical record. May be used to document significant issues or concerns related to a client's treatment. are behavioral in nature and address what people say and do Contain information on diagnosis, functional status, symptoms, treatment plans, progress, and client progress law requires.

Microaggressions

are persistent verbal, behavioral, end environmental assaults, insults, and invalidations that often occur subtly and are difficult to identity.

racial microaggressions

brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of other races. EX: Colorblindness

Multicultural Counseling

can be operationally defined as the working alliance between counselor and client that takes the personal dynamics of the counselor and client into consideration alongside the dynamics of the cultures of both of these individuals

Microinvalidations

communications that subtly exclude, negate, or nullify the thoughts, feelings, or experiential reality of a person of color

Aid-in-dying

consists of providing a person with the means to die; the person self-administers the death-causing agent, which is a lethal dose of a legal medication

Advance Directives

contain decisions people make about end-of-life care that are designed to protect their self-determination when they reach a point in their lives when they are no longer able to make decisions of their own about their care. EX: Living Will and Power of Attorney

Process Notes

deal with client reactions such as transference and the therapist's subjective impressions of a client intimate details about the client, dreams or fantasies, sensitive information about a client's personal life, and a therapist's own thoughts, feelings, and reactions to clients. not meant to be shared with others; law does not require.

Globally Literate Counselors

display a cultural curiosity that is characterized by an openness to engaging in new cultural experiences promotes mutual respect and understanding Committed to social justice & social responsibility & also expanding their comfort zone throughout their careers

Assent to Treatment

implies that counselors involve minors in decisions about their own care, and that to the greatest extent possible they agree to participate in the counseling process.

Social Justice Work in Counseling

involves the empowerment of individuals and family systems to better express their needs as well as to advocate on their behalf to address inequities and injustices they encounter in their community and in society at large involves being aware of and addressing the realities of oppression, privilege, and social inequalities.

Insufficient training

is sometimes used as an excuse or a cover for the real reason for making a referral—the counselor's difficulty with the client's values.

Hastened Death

means ending one's life earlier than would have happened without intervention. It involves speeding up the dying process, which can entail withholding or withdrawing treatment or life support

Rational Suicide

means that a person has decided - after going through a decision making process and without coercion from others - to end his or her life because of extreme suffering involved with a terminal illness

Unintentional Racism

often subtle, indirect, and outside our conscious awareness; this can be the most damaging and insidious form of racism

Oppressed Group

refers to a group of people who have been singled out for differential and unequal treatment and who regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination

Cultural Diversity Competence

refers to a practitioner's level of awareness, knowledge, and interpersonal skills needed to function effectively in a pluralistic society and to intervene on behalf of clients from diverse backgrounds

Value Imposition

refers to counselors directly attempting to influence a client to adopt their values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors an ethical issue in counseling individuals, couples, families, and groups.

Cultural Diversity

refers to the spectrum of differences that exists among groups of people with definable and unique cultural backgrounds.

Ethnicity

sense of identity that stems from common ancestry, history, nationality, religion, & race.

Standard of Care

the degree of care that a reasonably prudent person should exercise under the same or similar circumstances Primary focus of a negligence

Microinsults

verbal and nonverbal communications that subtly convey rudeness and insensitivity and demean a person's racial heritage or identity

Value Exploration

•Value exploration is at the heart of why many counselor education programs encourage or require personal therapy for trainees. •Personal therapy provides an opportunity to examine your beliefs and values and to explore your motivations for wanting to share or impose your belief system.

Spirituality

•often defined as a more personal quest for transcendence and meaning, whereas religion is often linked with dogma and ritual. Assessment process is crucial to counselors