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The Ethics of Self-Care: Where the Personal is the Professional - Test
by John C. Norcross, Ph.D., ABPP and Gary R. VandenBos, Ph.D., ABPP

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1. What is the principal reason that psychotherapist self-care is a professional responsibility? Help
It eliminates possible accusations of hypocrisy.
 It is required to maintain state licensure.
 It positions the therapist to understand better the difficulties patients face in treatment.
 It improves the quality of the therapist, an important predictor and contributor to effective treatment.
2. According to the research, what do mental health professionals highlight as most important in their own personal therapy? Help
Matching theoretical orientations
 Short-term therapy over long-term therapy
 Relationship with the therapist
 Disorder-centered treatment
3. Adequate self-care typically leads to all of the following results among mental health professionals EXCEPT: Help
Emotional availability.
 Technical flexibility.
 Professional leadership positions.
 Interpersonal responsiveness.
4. When questioned, approximately 90% of mental health practitioners say that ______ primarily accounts for success in psychotherapy. Help
Theoretical orientation
 The patient's disorder
 The patient's characteristics
 The therapeutic relationship
5. When psychotherapists enter personal therapy, they typically seek out a psychotherapist who: Help
Shares their own theoretical orientations.
 Is a behavior therapist.
 Practices a different type of therapy from what they themselves practice.
 Practices classic psychoanalysis.
6. What does the APA's Ethical Principles and Code of Conduct (2010) section 2.06 state psychologists should do when they notice that personal problems are interfering with their work? Help
Terminate all professional activities, effective immediately.
 Complete a self-report inventory and submit it to the APA for review.
 Obtain professional assistance and determine whether to limit, suspend, or terminate duties.
 Quietly but quickly resolve their personal problems.
7. The National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics (2008) recommends what behaviors when work becomes impaired? Help
Prioritize the client's welfare over the self.
 Do whatever is necessary, including terminating practice, to protect the client.
 Consult with the client about a lighter treatment plan.
 Inform a supervisor, who will then decide the best course of action.
8. Which ethical guideline specifically mentions self-care as an ideal activity to maintain and enhance well-being to enable a psychotherapist to perform at his or her highest ability? Help
American Counseling Association's (2014) Code of Ethics
 National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics (2008)
 American Psychological Association's Ethical Principles (2010)
 The Belmont Report (1978)
9. The course authors argue repeatedly that psychotherapist self-care is all of the following EXCEPT: Help
A critical prerequisite for patient care.
 An indulgence or personal option.
 An ethical necessity.
 A professional responsibility.
10. The story of the man who refused to sharpen his saw because he was too busy sawing was intended to illustrate that psychotherapists: Help
Are stubborn and resistant to self-care.
 Often are too busy to adequately practice self-care.
 Frequently continue clinical care even when the situation becomes difficult.
 Are often unequipped to practice.
11. Clinicians' self-care recommendations to their patients can prove paradoxical because: Help
Psychotherapists often do not practice the self-care they recommend to others.
 Recommended self-care practices are often not supported by controlled research.
 Taking care of patients is the job of the psychotherapist, not the patient.
 The recommendations can prove destructive.
12. Esalen's Law states that: Help
Self-care leads to better practice.
 Psychotherapists learn from clients as much as clients learn from therapists.
 Psychotherapists teach others what they most often need to learn themselves.
 Self-care is universally beneficial.
13. The course authors recommend that mental health professionals ____ monitor or track their self-care behaviors because ____. Help
Never; self-care is ethereal and immeasurable.
 Rarely; there is no evidence or experience that it improves self-care.
 Occasionally; we can sometimes benefit from the information.
 Frequently; what's measured often improves.
14. Research indicates that psychotherapists who maintain clear ethical boundaries feel less stressed by a patient's psychopathology and suicidal threats. Therapists with greater fusion tendencies experience: Help
More stress from patients' pathology and more professional doubt.
 Less stress from patients' pathology and less professional doubt.
 Better skills in maintaining the therapeutic relationship.
 Lower satisfaction from their clinical career.
15. For psychotherapists, boundaries demarcate separation in all of the following roles/behaviors EXCEPT: Help
Scientist and practitioner.
 Psychotherapist and client.
 Professional life and personal life.
 Effective/ethical practices and ineffective/unethical practice.
16. If a client is late to an appointment and is not in crisis, then a psychotherapist practicing self-care should probably: Help
See the client from the time he or she arrives until the originally agreed-upon end time.
 Extend the originally agreed-upon end time so that the session is as long as originally intended.
 Refuse to see the client at all that day to send a clear message about the importance of showing up on time.
 Allow the client to arrive early next session to make up for lost time.
17. A psychotherapist should typically respond to clients' non-emergency texts and emails: Help
Immediately, to maintain professionalism.
 Never, to maintain confidentiality.
 Through a secretary.
 At times previously communicated to the client.
18. According to multiple research studies, the work-related distress of psychotherapists is _____ to the number of their client contact hours. Help
Strongly and positively related
 Weakly but positively related
 Strongly and negatively related
 Not necessarily related

 

 

  
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