Quiz: Ethical Considerations in Working with People with Trauma and Adversity

(OT275-A) Quiz: Ethical Considerations in Working with People with Trauma and Adversity

Training Title: Ethical Considerations in Working with People with Trauma and Adversity
This exam contains 20 questions. In order to receive credit, you MUST answer at least 16 questions correctly. You may attempt the quiz as many times as you’d like.

1. Immediately after a terrible event, shock and denial are common initial reactions. Which of the following is more characteristic of a longer-term reaction to trauma?
2. Herman (1992) distinguished simple, isolated trauma from chronic and complex trauma. Where do adverse childhood experiences such as abuse and neglect most often fall?
3. Research on bona fide psychotherapies has found that different legitimate treatment approaches tend to produce similar levels of benefit for people with PTSD.
4. The use of critical incident stress debriefing after September 11th is cited as an example of what important lesson about trauma intervention?
5. Bessel van der Kolk framed the goal of trauma treatment as helping people do which of the following?
6. A clinician wants to strengthen ethical practice when working with a person who has experienced trauma. Which action would run counter to that goal?
7. Herman cautioned that no intervention which removes power from a survivor can foster recovery. Clinicians best apply this principle in which way?
8. The idea of “engaged self-care” suggests that healthy self-care for professionals depends heavily on which of the following?
9. True or False? Because ethical codes exist mainly to protect the professional, occasional breaches of professional ethics rarely result in real harm.
10. In the Prescott et al. (2024) survey of professionals in the field, a majority of respondents reported experiencing symptoms of burnout.
11. A clinician notices a pull to correct a past injustice a client experienced. This reflects the tension between supporting client autonomy and which competing impulse?
12. A client asks a clinician what music they listen to. In deciding whether to answer, the guiding question about self-disclosure should be:
13. Ethical and boundary problems tend to arise most often among professionals who hold which belief about themselves?
14. In this field, the clinician’s “client” is understood broadly to include the individual, their family, the community, and which of the following?
15. Sawyer and Prescott (2010) described the therapist as holding an ethical responsibility to the client, a legal responsibility to the court, and what responsibility to the community?
16. Smith and Fitzpatrick (1995) described neutrality as focusing on which of the following?
17. Which pair of issues is described as being among the most common ethical complaints in the field?
18. A clinician weighs whether a planned intervention might expose a client to an unacceptable risk of harm. Which ethical principle is she applying?
19. Boundary violations are treated as a serious safety concern in treatment settings for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
20. A client who is not under any court order or supervision condition discloses in session that he has viewed child sexual abuse imagery. This scenario chiefly raises which ethical challenge?