A career services provider in a career center failed to seek assistance from her supervisor when she became the object of sexual harassment by a client. She did not seek help because she felt that she should not reveal to her supervisor information of a nature damaging to her client. What ethical standards apply? (Answers: A.10.b; A.10.c; A.10.d; C.2.d; C.2.e; C.2.g; D.1.h; I.2.a)

In an attempt to save money, a career services provider’s manager indicated that all clients should be scheduled to use a self-directed Internet-based career program before spending significant time with a career services provider. Nevertheless, the career services provider refused to assign two clients to the program who she knew would not benefit from it. What ethical

standards apply? (Answers: She acted ethically according to A.1.a; A.4.a; A.6.a [possibly]; and F.1.b; She likely didn’t act ethically according to C.2.e; D.1.h; I.2.b; I.2.c; I.2.d; I.2.e)

Given the modest salary of a career services provider and the impending college tuition bill for his son, during each intake interview he offered every client the option to order various herb and vitamin products from a catalogue. What ethical standards apply? (Answers: A.1.a; A.5.c; A.5.d; C.2.e; C.3.d; C.3.e; C.3.f; C.6.d)

In your group,

• review the assigned cases in the Activity 1: Applying Ethical Standards (done in the online homework) using the NCDA Codes of Ethics and the provided answers.

• raise questions about the assigned cases

• answer the questions by group members

• select the difficult questions to ask Lecturer later

A workforce center in an isolated rural area was unable to attract and hire a master’s-level trained career counselor. Therefore, the center hired a career services provider and advertised that its services included the full range of those that can be delivered by a master’s-level trained career counselor. What ethical standards apply? (Answers: A.1.b; C.2.a; C.2.c; C.3.a; C.4.a; D.1.f; D.1.h)

A career services provider took a job in a community college career center. He agreed to the work tasks listed in the job description. After a few months, the counseling staff was reduced, and the career services provider was asked to administer and interpret assessments for which he had no training or experience. If the career services provider agreed to this new assignment, what ethical standards would apply? (Answers: A.1.b; C.2.a; C.2.c; D.1.f; D.1.h; E.1.b; E.2.a)

A career services provider became deeply infatuated with a client despite several written requests by the supervisor to end the relationship, failed to do so. When the supervisor fired the career services provider, what ethical standards were involved? (Answers: A.1.a;

A.4.a; A.5.a; A.10.b; A.10.c; A.10.d; C.1; C.2.d; C.2.e; C.2.g)

The publisher of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator screens orders to be sure that those who purchase it are qualified through special training to interpret it. However, the director of a community college career center asks a career services provider to order a supply of the instrument, using the director’s name since he is qualified to purchase, administer, and interpret the assessment. Now that the assessment has arrived, the director has told the career services provider to administer and interpret the instrument to clients, after carefully reading the assessment’s user manual. What ethical standards apply? (Answers: A.1.a; A.4.a; A.10.b; C.2.a; C.2.e; D.1.h; E.2.a; E.2.b; I.2.e)

Since the career center’s budget is very limited, a manager requested that a career services provider duplicate a well-known interest inventory, The Self-Directed Search, as well as the user’s manual that provides lists of occupations, and use these materials with groups of clients. What ethical standards apply? (Answers: C.1; C.2.e; D.1.e; D.1.g; D.1.h; E.2.b; E.10; I.1.a; 1.2.a; I,.2.b; I.2.c; I.2.d; I.2.e)

An interest inventory that, according to three reviews by respected professionals in the field, does not have acceptable reliability and validity is offered free of charge on the Internet; the career services provider knows these facts. A supervisor tells the career services provider to use the inventory with all clients because it is free. What ethical standards apply? (C.1; D.1.h; E.1.b; E.3.a; E.6.a; E.11; F.7; I.1.a; I.2.a; I,.2.b; I.2.c; I.2.d; I.2.e)