____________________________________________ Professional Ethics and Law in California, 2nd Edition
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND LAW IN CALIFORNIA, 2ND EDITION Self-Assessment Answers and Rationales
1. The correct answers are A, B, C, and D. Rationale: The Board of Behavioral Sciences is a California state regulatory agency responsible for licensing, examination, and enforce- ment of professional standards for licensed educational psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family thera- pists, and licensed professional counselors. 2. The correct answer is B. Rationale: An unlicensed person who has earned a master’s or doctoral degree qualifying the person for licensure and is registered with the board as an associate. 3. The correct answer is A. Rationale: This includes laws enacted by federal, state, and local legislative bodies and covers such issues as confidentiality of records and obligations around suspected child or elder abuse. 4. The correct answer is a. Rationale: In accordance with California regulations, applicants and registrants must successfully pass a California law and ethics examination administered by the board as a prerequisite for obtaining their license. 5. The correct answer is C. Rationale: The BBS requires 6 hours of coursework or applied experience under supervision in suicide risk assessment and intervention. 6. The correct answer is A. Rationale: The California BBS requires both applicants for licensure and licensees to have completed a minimum of three hours of training or coursework in the provision of mental health services via telehealth, which must include law and ethics related to telehealth effective July 1, 2023.
7. The correct answers are A, B, and D. Rationale: Social work principles and methods application counseling and using applied psychotherapy of nonmedical nature with individuals, families or groups, providing information and referral services and helping communities organize. Social Work practice does not include prescribing medications of any kind. 8. The correct answer is D. Rationale: Licensed Educational Psychologists scope of practice includes administration and interpretation of diagnostic tests related to academic learning processes. These include tests of academic ability, learning patterns, achievement, motivation and personality factors. 9. The correct answer is A. Rationale: Unprofessional conduct for a licensed professional clinical counselor includes paying, accepting, or soliciting any consideration, compensation, or remuneration, whether monetary or otherwise, for the referral of professional clients 10. The correct answer is B. Rationale: Professional Clinical Counselor’s scope of practice does not include the provision of clinical social work services. 11. The correct answer is A. Rationale: Consequentialism is an ethical theory that emphasizes that the outcome is all that matters, and the best outcome is characterized as “the greatest good for the greatest number.” 12. The correct answer is D. Rationale: The main difference between moral distress and moral uncertainty is that moral distress occurs when ones’ moral obligations are compromised, while moral uncertainty is not being certain how to proceed when confronted with an ethical dilemma.
55
EliteLearning.com/Psychology
Powered by FlippingBook