Quiz: Ethics for Texas LPCs: 6 hours

This is the 15 item true/false quiz you will be asked to take after you read the text. To read the text and submit the quiz for credit, please first make payment.

1) The use of specific methods, techniques, or modalities within the practice of professional counseling is limited to professional counselors appropriately trained and competent in the use of such methods, techniques, or modalities.

2) Just because a method or modality is listed in TAC Rule 681.31 doesn’t mean an LPC has received adequate training in its use.

3) There can be difficulty converting clinical guidelines into active performance measures or in integration of findings into daily operations. In other words, research may not apply to psychotherapy in the field as well as intended.

4) A licensee must report to the Council knowledge of any unlicensed practice of counseling.

5) In general, a professional relationship is one in which the parameters and goals of the relationship are clearly defined, understood, and agreed upon by the licensee and client.

6) Fees and arrangements for payment can be discussed long after the professional relationship has begun.

7) According to Rule §681.42, sexual misconduct includes sexual contact, sexual exploitation, and therapeutic deception.

8) If a licensee learns of a client’s concurrent therapy, the licensee has no obligation to request release from the client to inform the other professional and strive to establish positive and collaborative professional relationships.

9) LPCs are allowed to administer projective test such as the Rorschach Inkblot Test.

10) A licensee must not provide services while impaired by a physical, mental, or medical condition or by medication, drugs or alcohol.

11) Rule 681.45 states that a licensee must not disclose any communication, record, or identity of a client except as provided in Texas Health and Safety Code Chapter 611 or other state or federal statutes or rules unless it is authorized in the Health and Safety Code.

12) The client cannot “revoke a disclosure that is required for purposes of making payment to the professional for mental health care services provided to the patient.”

13) States vary in their treatment of danger posed by clients. In the case of imminent danger posed by a client, Texas does not require the LPC to report it to the authorities, but permits it.

14) The TAC defines a non-therapeutic relationship as any non-counseling activity initiated by either the licensee or client that results in a relationship unrelated to therapy.

15) 681.41 allows only professional relationships with current clients, and allows non-therapeutic relationships with previous clients only if certain conditions are met.