When Counseling Clients Who Are Terminally Ill and Wish to Explore

question 10

Multiple Choice

When counseling clients who are terminally ill and wish to explore end-of-life decisions, counselors should always do all of the following EXCEPT:

• A) help the clients clarify their thoughts and feelings about end-of-life choices.
• B) assist the clients to deal with grief and loss issues.
• C) examine their own values and beliefs about death and dying before agreeing to counsel terminally ill clients.
• D) ensure that they have the competencies needed to work with terminally ill clients.
• E) inform the terminally ill client's family that the client is considering various end of life options and involve the family in the decision-making process.

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Definitions:

Groupthink

A psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or dysfunctional decision-making outcome.

Fundamental Attribution Error

The tendency to overestimate the effect of personality or disposition and underestimate the effect of the situation in explaining social behavior.

Self-Serving Bias

A common tendency for individuals to attribute their successes to internal factors while blaming external factors for their failures.

Indoctrination

The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.