Discuss the pros and cons of offering psychotherapy services to an individual who is already currently receiving mental health services.

What will be an ideal response?


A good answer will include:
a. Standard 10.04 recognizes the rights of clients to seek additional services and the potential benefits of collateral therapy
b. The potential harm that can result from client involvement in concurrent therapies
c. Careful consideration of clients’ welfare and treatment needs will determine the ethical appropriateness
d. May be beneficial from consultation with psychologist when they are uncertain about the effectiveness of their current therapy
e. Or uncomfortable about what they perceive as their current provider’s boundary violations
f. Expertise of psychologist may provide collateral treatment
g. May be harmful if client is using second therapist to triangulate issues arising in current therapy
h. Conflicting therapeutic messages from two service providers

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.

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a. the fact that the concordance rate for ASD is higher among dizygotic twins than among siblings

a. The majority of children with ASD have deletions or duplications of genetic material on specific chromosomes. b. The majority of children with ASD have a genetic abnormality or mutation on a single portion of one gene. c. The majority of children with ASD show the absence of neurexin 1, which produces proteins important to early brain development. d. The majority of children with ASD have causes that have not yet been explained.

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Which of the following is NOT one of Nakken's stages in the development of an addictive personality?

a) internal change. b) life breakdown. c) lifestyle change. d) lifestyle acceptance.

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The four domains within which the interrelationships of a client may be conceptualized or observed are: a. career, biological, affective cognitive

b. career, social, behavioral and affective. c. career, affective, cognitive-behavioral and cultural. d. career, cognitive, social and biological.

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