Card 148 / 153: The new ACA ethical guidelines stipulate that a counselor can refrain from making a diagnosis if the counselor believes the diagnosis could harm the client or others.
A) Therefore, a counselor could ethically diagnose all clients as having an adjustment disorder to secure insurance since this diagnosis is somewhat benign and not likely to harm the client
B) A counselor could refrain from making an Axis I or an Axis II diagnosis if it is in the best interest of the client.
C) A decision to refrain from making a diagnosis is ideally made in collaboration with the client, although the counselor has the fi nal say
D) Choices “b” and “c” are both correct.

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