*ASSIGNMENT MUST BE SUBMITTED FOR PLAGIARISM.* Directions: Read the four scenarios below. Provide a 75-150-word response to each question in all four of the scenarios presented below. Use the ACA and NAADAC Codes of Ethics and other scholarly resources to support your responses. You must provide at least one properly formatted APA citation and accompanying reference to support your response for each scenario.
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Topic 7: Scenario Analysis Assignment
Directions: Read the four scenarios below. Provide a 75-150-word response to each question
in all four of the scenarios presented below. Use the ACA and NAADAC Codes of Ethics
and other scholarly resources to support your responses. You must provide at least one
properly formatted APA citation and accompanying reference to support your response for
each scenario.
Scenario One: Barbara is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) working for a nonprofit
social service agency. Many of the clients in the agency are female domestic violence
victims. The director of the agency has asked Barbara to develop a counseling group to serve
the needs of these individuals.
Question One: What ethical matters should Barbara consider as she plans this group?
Question Two: What methods should Barbara use to ensure confidentiality in the context of
group counseling?
Question Three: If breaches of confidentiality occur, how should Barbara manage them?
Scenario Two: David is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed marriage and
family therapist (LMFT) working for a family counseling center. Steve, one of his adult
clients, would like to begin couples counseling with his wife.
Question One: What ethical matters should David consider before beginning to see Steve and
his wife?
Question Two: What special issues of confidentiality may arise in the case? How should
David address these issues?
Question Three: How might differences in personal values and gender/cultural issues create
ethical dilemmas in this case?
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Scenario Three: Stephanie is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who has decided to
start a private practice as she transitions from public to private practice. As she makes her
plans, there are many ethical issues she must consider. While these issues are of concern to
all counselors, she must consider how they specifically impact a counselor in private
practice.
Question One: How can she ethically handle limited resources, deal with cost containment
issues, respond to discrimination, and promote community change?
Question Two: As a service provider, with what ethical issues and practices related to state
insurance laws and managed care must she be familiar?
Question Three: What are the ethical obligations and limitations faced by a counselor who
serves clients who have been the victim of discrimination, injustice, poverty, or lack of
access to behavioral health services? What best practice community based interventions
could she refer her clients to?
Section Four: Amari has recently passed her NCMHCE and will soon be considered an
independent clinical practitioner. Her husband is in the military and they travel often. Amari
hopes to strictly provide distance counseling in her private practice. She has never provided
distance counseling nor does she know of anyone who does it. Rely heavily on Section H:
Distance Counseling, Technology, and Social Media of the American Counseling
Association’s Code of Ethics to consider the following.
Question One: What should Amari consider in regards to distance counseling?
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