The document provides instructions for a multi-part counseling ethics assignment. It explains that students pursuing licensure as a licensed professional counselor should evaluate the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics as well as their state's rules and regulations. The assignment has two parts: 1) Students must rewrite each section of their professional code(s) of ethics in their own words, providing an example for understanding. 2) Students must identify the specific license and state they are pursuing and compare the national code to their state's licensing standards, noting three similarities and three differences.

1. Assignment Instructions:
Counselors have the responsibility of knowing and
understanding their profession’s codes of ethics. Codes of ethics
are viewed as the minimum standards for a given profession
(and professional identity) which are based off best
practices. These codes serve as guidelines for practice but do
not tell counselors what to do in a given situation; counselors
are given the autonomy to make decisions based on the
circumstances. Depending on the individual counselor’s
professional license, professional memberships, and specialty
area(s), this may include one or more codes of ethics. For
example, members of the of the American Counseling
Association and Licensed Professional Counselors (or state of
practice equivalent) follow the ACA (2014) Code of Ethics and
members of the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapists and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist are
expected to follow the AAMFT (2015) Code of Ethics.
Students will evaluate the license they are pursuing and then
proceed accordingly. Students who would like to pursue
licensure as a Licensed Professional Counselor will evaluate
the
ACA (2014) Code of Ethics along with their state of
practices’ current rules and regulations for Licensed
Professional Counselors (for example, in Texas this would be
the
Texas State Board of Examiners of Professional
Counselors [TSEBPC]).
This assignment includes two parts:
Part 1:
For this assignment and to ensure understanding of best

2. practices in counseling individuals, couples, and families,
students are to rewrite their professional code(s) of ethics
(section by section) in their own words. Please note, in the ACA
(2014) Code of ethics Section A: The Counseling Relationship
includes subsections A.1.-A.12, therefore the student will write
one to four paragraphs per section. Students must provide an
applicable example to further indicate understanding for each
section.
Part 2:
The students will clearly identify the specific license they are
pursuing and their state of practice.
Additionally, students will evaluate how their current state of
practice’s licensing standards and ethical codes (rules and
regulations) compare to the national code (ACA, 2014). Student
should utilize the national code(s) used in Part 1 of the
assignment and explore at least three specific similarities and
three specific difference with the current state of practice’s
standards and national standards. In discussing the similarities
and differences students should make note of how the
differences may impact their professional behaviors,
interactions, and their license(s).
I am pursuing LPC so this paper should be based on that.
Copy of the questionnaire used in survey.sav
On the pages that follow, I have included a portion of the actual
questionnaire used to
collect the data included in the survey.sav file. The first page
includes the demographic
questions, followed by the Life Orientation Test (6 items) and
the Positive and Negative

3. Affect Scale (20 items).
Sample questionnaire:
1. Sex: male (please tick whichever applies)
female
2. Age: _________ (in years)
3. What is your marital status? (please tick whichever applies)
1. single
2. in a steady relationship
3. living with partner
4. married for first time
5. remarried
6. separated
7. divorced
8. widowed
4. Do you have any children currently living at home with you?
(please tick)
yes
no
5. What is the highest level of education that you have
completed? (please tick the

4. highest level you have completed)
1. primary school
2. some secondary school
3. completed high school
4. some additional training (apprenticeship, TAFE courses etc.)
5. undergraduate university
6. postgraduate university
6. What are the major sources of stress in your life?
_____________________________________________________
________
7. Do you smoke? (please tick)
yes
no
If yes, how many cigarettes do you smoke per week?
____________
Please read through the following statements and decide how
much you either agree
or disagree with each. Using the scale provided write the
number that best indicates

5. how you feel on the line next to each statement.
strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 5 strongly agree
1. _____ In uncertain times I usually expect the best.
2. _____ If something can go wrong for me it will.
3. _____ I'm always optimistic about my future.
4. _____ I hardly ever expect things to go my way.
5. _____ Overall I expect more good things to happen to me
than bad.
6. _____ I rarely count on good things happening to me.
Source: Scheier, Carver & Bridges, 1994.
This scale consists of a number of words that describe different
feelings and emotions.
For each item indicate to what extent you have felt this way
during the past few weeks.
Write a number from 1 to 5 on the line next to each item.
very slightly or not
at all

6. 1
a little
2
moderately
3
quite a bit
4
extremely
5
1. ______ interested
2. ______ upset
3. ______ scared
4. ______ proud
5. ______ ashamed
6. ______ determined
7. ______ active
8. ______ distressed

7. 9. ______ strong
10. ______ hostile
11. ______ irritable
12. ______ inspired
13. ______ attentive
14. ______ afraid
15. ______ excited
16. ______ guilty
17. ______ enthusiastic
18. ______ alert
19. ______ nervous
20. ______ jittery
Source: Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988.
Codebook for survey.sav

8. Full variable name SPSS variable
name
Coding instructions
Identification number id subject identification number
Sex sex 1 = males; 2 = females
Age age in years
Marital marital 1 = single; 2 = steady relationship; 3 = living
with
a partner; 4 = married for the first time; 5 =
remarried; 6 = separated; 7 = divorced; 8 =
widowed
Children child 1 = yes; 2 = no
Highest level of education educ 1 = primary; 2 = some
secondary;
3 = completed high school;
4 = some additional training;
5 = completed undergraduate;
6 = completed postgraduate.
Major source of stress source 1 = work; 2 = spouse or partner;

9. 3 =
relationships; 4 = children; 5 = family; 6 = health /
illness; 7 = life in general
Do you smoke? smoke 1 = yes; 2 = no
Cigarettes smoked per week smokenum Number of cigarettes
smoked per week
Optimism Scale
op1 to op6 1=strongly disagree , 5=strongly agree
Mastery Scale mast1 to mast7 1=strongly disagree , 4=strongly
agree
PANAS Scale pn1 to pn20 1=very slightly, 5=extremely
Life Satisfaction Scale
lifsat1 to lifsat5 1=strongly disagree , 7=strongly agree
Perceived Stress Scale pss1 to pss10 1=never, 5=very often
Self esteem Scale sest1 to sest10 1=strongly disagree ,
4=strongly agree

10. Marlowe-Crowne Social
Desirability Scale
m1 to m10 1=true, 2=false
Perceived Control of Internal
States Scale (PCOISS)
pc1 to pc18 1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree
Total scale scores included in survey.sav
Full variable name SPSS Variable
name
Coding instructions
Total Optimism Toptim reverse items op2, op4, op6
add all scores op1 to op6
range 6 to 30
Total Mastery Tmast reverse items mast1, mast3, mast4, mast6,
mast7
add all items mast1 to mast7
range 7 to 28

11. Total Positive affect Tposaff add items pn1, pn4, pn6, pn7, pn9,
pn12, pn13,
pn15, pn17, pn18
range 10 to 50
Total Negative affect Tnegaff add items pn2, pn3, pn5, pn8,
pn10, pn11, pn14,
pn16, pn19, pn20
range 10 to 50
Total Life Satisfaction Tlifesat add all items lifsat1 to lifsat5
range 5 to 35
Total Perceived Stress Tpstress reverse items pss4, pss5, pss7,
pss8
add all items pss1 to pss10
range 10 to 50
Total Self-esteem Tslfest reverse items sest3, sest5, sest7,
sest9, sest10
add all items sest1 to sest10
range 10 to 40
Total Social desirability Tmarlow reverse items m6 to m10
(recode true=1, false
=0)
add all items m1 to m10
range 0 to 10

12. Total Perceived Control
of Internal States
Tpcoiss reverse items pc1, pc2, pc7, pc11, pc15, pc16
add all items pc1 to pc18
range 18 to 90
New Education
categories
educ2 recoded the categories primary, some secondary
into one group because of small numbers in each
group.
1=primary/some secondary, 2=completed
secondary, 3=some additional training,
4=completed undergraduate university,
5=completed postgraduate university.
Age group 3 categories Agegp3 1=18-29yrs, 2=30-44yrs,
3=45+yrs
Age group 5 categories Agegp5 1=18-24yrs, 2=25-32yrs, 3=33-
40yrs, 4=41-49,
5=50+yrs.
1

13. Copy of questionnaire for survey5ED.sav
General instructions
In this booklet are a number of scales and questions designed
to measure your opinions,
beliefs and behaviour. Please answer the questions as honestly
as possible, in a way that shows
how you really are, not how you would like to be or how you
think you should be.
You may feel that some questions are very similar to others in
the questionnaire. Each of the
different sets of questions is measuring different aspects so it is
important that you answer each of
the questions. Don’t spend too much time thinking about your
answers. The first answer that pops
into your head is what is needed.
Instructions are given for each of the different sets of
questions. Please read these carefully
as they vary from section to section. Some sets of questions ask
you to give an answer by ticking a
box. Others ask you to rate how much you agree or disagree
using a 4 point scale, others use a 5, 6
or 7 point scale. It is important that you use the correct scale for
each question.
Thank you very much for agreeing to participate in this study.

14. 1. Sex: _____Male _____Female (please tick whichever
applies)
2. Age: ___________ (in years)
3. What is your marital status: (please tick whichever best
describes your current situation)
_____1. single _____2. in a steady relationship _____3. living
with partner _____4. married for
first time
_____5. remarried _____6. separated _____7. divorced
_____8. widowed
4. Do you have any children currently living at home with you:
_____Yes _____No
5. What is the highest level of education that you have
completed: (please tick the highest level you
have completed).
_____ primary school _____ some secondary school _____
completed high school
_____ some additional training
(apprenticeship, TAFE courses etc.) _____ completed
undergraduate University
_____ completed postgraduate University

15. 6. What are the major sources of stress in your life?
_____________________________________________________
____________________________
7. Do you smoke?: _____Yes _____No
If yes, how many cigarettes do you smoke per week
____________
2
Scale A
Please read through the following statements and decide how
much you either agree or disagree with each.
Using the scale provided write the number that best indicates
how you feel on the line next to each statement.
strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 5 strongly agree

16. ______ 1. In uncertain times I usually expect the best.
______ 2. If something can go wrong for me it will.
______ 3. I’m always optimistic about my future.
______ 4. I hardly ever expect things to go my way.
______ 5. Overall I expect more good things to happen to me
than bad.
______ 6. I rarely count on good things happening to me.
Scale B
Please indicate how much you either agree or disagree with each
statement. Write a number from 1 to 4 on
the line next to each statement.
strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 strongly
agree
1. ______ I have little control over the things that happen to me
2. ______ I can do just about anything I really set my mind to
do

17. 3. ______ There is really no way I can solve some of the
problems I have
4. ______ There is little I can do to change many of the
important things in my life
5. ______ What happens to me in the future mostly depends on
me
6. ______ I often feel helpless in dealing with the problems of
life
7. ______ Sometimes I feel that I'm being pushed around in life
3
Scale C
This scale consists of a number of words that describe different
feelings and emotions. For each item indicate
to what extent you have felt this way during the past few weeks.
Write a number from 1 to 5 on the line next to
each item.
very slightly or not
at all
1

18. a little
2
moderately
3
quite a bit
4
extremely
5
1. ______ interested
2. ______ upset
3. ______ scared
4. ______ proud
5. ______ ashamed
6. ______ determined
7. ______ active

19. 8. ______ distressed
9. ______ strong
10. ______ hostile
11. ______ irritable
12. ______ inspired
13. ______ attentive
14. ______ afraid
15. ______ excited
16. ______ guilty
17. ______ enthusiastic
18. ______ alert
19. ______ nervous
20. ______ jittery
Scale D
Below are five statements with which you may agree or

20. disagree. Using a 1 to 7 scale, indicate your
agreement with each item by placing the appropriate number on
the line next to that item.
strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 strongly agree
1. ______ In most ways my life is close to ideal
2. ______ The conditions of my life are excellent
3. ______ I am satisfied with my life
4. ______ So far I have got the important things I want in life
5. ______ If I could live my life again, I would change almost
nothing
4
Scale E
Please use the scale below to answer each of the following
questions. Write a number from 1 to 5 in the space
provided.

21. never
1
almost never
2
sometimes
3
fairly often
4
very often
5
In the last few weeks:
______1. How often have you been upset because of
something that happened unexpectedly?
______2. How often have you felt that you were unable to
control the important things in your life?
______3. How often have you felt nervous and 'stressed’?
______4. How often have you felt confident about your ability
to handle your personal problems?
______5. How often have you felt that things were going your
way?
______6. How often have you found that you could not cope
with all the things that you had to do?

22. ______7. How often have you been able to control irritations
in your life?
______8. How often have you felt that you were on top of
things?
______9. How often have you been angered because of things
that happened that were outside of
your control?
______10. How often have you felt difficulties were piling up
so high that you could not overcome
them?
5
Scale F
Please indicate how much you agree or disagree with each of
these statements using the scale provided
below. Write the number that best indicates how you feel in the
space next to each statement.
strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 strongly agree

23. 1. ______ I feel that I am a person of worth, at least on an
equal basis with others
2. ______ I feel that I have a number of good qualities
3. ______ All in all, I am inclined to feel that I am a failure
4. ______ I am able to do things as well as most other people
5. ______ I feel I do not have much to be proud of
6. ______ I take a positive attitude toward myself
7. ______ I wish I could have more respect for myself
8. ______ On the whole, I am satisfied with myself
9. ______ I certainly feel useless at times
10. ______ At times I think I am no good at all
Scale G
Listed below are a number of statements concerning personal
attitudes and traits. Read each item
and decide whether the statement is true or false as it relates to
you.
Circle either True (T) or False (F) for each statement

24. T F 1. I’m always willing to admit it when I make a
mistake
T F 2. I always try to practice what I preach
T F 3. I never resent being asked to return a favour
T F 4. I have never been irked when people expressed
ideas very different from my own
T F 5. I have never deliberately said something that hurt
someone’s feelings
T F 6. I like to gossip at times
T F 7. There have been occasions when I took advantage
of someone
T F 8. I sometimes try to get even rather than forgive and
forget
T F 9. At times I have really insisted on having things
my own way
T F 10. There have been occasions when I felt like
smashing things
6
Scale H

25. Using the scale provided, decide how much you either agree or
disagree with each statement. Next to
each statement, write the number that best indicates how you
feel.
strongly strongly
disagree 1 2 3 4 5 agree
______ 1. I don't have much control over my emotional
reactions to stressful situations.
______ 2. When I'm in a bad mood I find it hard to snap myself
out of it.
______ 3. My feelings are usually fairly stable.
______ 4. I can usually talk myself out of feeling bad.
______ 5. No matter what happens to me in my life I am
confident of my ability to cope
emotionally.
______ 6. I have a number of good techniques that will help me
cope with any stressful situation.
______ 7. I find it hard to stop myself from thinking about my
problems.
______ 8. If I start to worry about something I can usually
distract myself and think about

26. something nicer.
______ 9. If I realize I am thinking silly thoughts I can usually
stop myself.
______ 10. I am usually able to keep my thoughts under control.
______ 11. I imagine there will be many situations in the future
where silly thoughts will get the
better of me.
______ 12. I have a number of techniques which I am confident
will help me think clearly and
rationally in any situation I might find myself.
______ 13. Even when under pressure I can usually keep calm
and relaxed.
______ 14. I have a number of techniques or tricks that I use to
stay relaxed in stressful situations.
______ 15. When I'm anxious or uptight there does not seem to
be much that I can do to help
myself relax.
______ 16. There is not much I can do to relax when I get
uptight.
______ 17. I have a number of ways of relaxing that I am
confident will help me cope.
______18. If my stress levels get too high I know there are

27. things I can do to help myself.
You have reached the end of the questionnaire.
Thank you very much for participating in this study.
Your assistance is greatly appreciated
Midterm Exam
The purpose of this examination is to practice using SPSS to
analyze the data. You should attempt each of the questions
detailed on the following pages. You will need to have read
through the provided materials in the class
first to familiarize yourself with its contents and revise
the various statistical procedures covered.
There are a number of parts to this exercise.
· In Part A, you are asked to create your own data file and to
perform analyses on this data file.
· In Part B, you will be asked to interpret some output generated
by SPSS.
· In Part C, you will be using the data file attached in mid-term
dropbox. Full details of this data file is also included in the
dropbox, and you should read through this section thoroughly
before beginning. This is a real data file that is condensed from
data collected by Postgraduate Diploma of Psychology students.
· In Part D, you will estimate sample size by using G*power.
The following rules apply for this assignment:
· If applicable, answer the question under three headings.
1. SPSS syntax

28. 2. Necessary SPSS output
3. Interpretation and/or conclusion of your analysis
· Organize your work in a reasonably neat and coherent way.
Work scattered all over the page without a clear ordering will
receive very little credit.
· Only necessary output from the SPSS software should be in
the submitted exam.
· You are required to work INDIVIDUALLY.
· Justification does not include hundreds of pages of computer
output with hopes you covered all aspects. Justification is a
well thought out and well-articulated rationale for what you do!
Do not JUST SUBMIT SPSS OUTPUTS or CODES
Part A
Sample questionnaire
1. Sex
___ Male ___ Female
2. Age in years __________
3. Education level (please indicate the highest level of
schooling that you completed)
_____ Year 10 _____ Year 12 ______ University or
College
4. Are you currently on a diet to lose weight?
____ Yes ____ No
Mastery Scale
Please indicate how much you either agree or disagree with each
of the following statements.
Write a number from 1 to 4 on the line next to each statement.
strongly disagree 1 2 3 4 strongly
agree
1. ______ I have little control over the things that happen to me
2. ______ I can do just about anything I really set my mind to
3. ______ There is really no way I can solve some of the
problems I have
4. ______ There is little I can do to change many of the
important things in my life

29. 5. ______ What happens to me in the future mostly depends on
me
6. ______ I often feel helpless in dealing with the problems of
life
7. ______ Sometimes I feel that I'm being pushed around in life
1. Prepare a codebook for this questionnaire, detailing each of
the variable names and codes to be used to prepare the data for
entry into SPSS
. (3 points)2. Using the
codebook you developed, describe how you would create value
labels for Question 3 (Education level). Describe the steps you
would use in SPSS.
(3 points)
3. Using SPSS, create a new data file for this questionnaire.
Enter some pretend data in this data file (for at least five cases).
(3
points)4. It is important to check your data set for errors
before conducting your major analyses.
(a) Describe how you would go about doing this using SPSS. In
particular, how would you identify cases that had values that
did not fall in the range of possible values for a particular
variable?
(3 points)
(b) Perform a check for errors on your pretend data file. Correct
any errors you find.
(3 points)
5. Using your pretend data file, calculate total scale scores for
the Mastery scale used in the questionnaire (make sure you
reverse the negatively worded items first). High scores on the
Mastery scale should represent high levels of mastery. Report
the mean and standard deviation for the Mastery scale.
(3 points)
6. Create a new variable by recoding the responses to Question

30. 3 (education level) so that there are only two groups (Yr 10 and
Yr 12 = 0; University/College = 1).
(3 points)
7. Create a new age group variable (agegp4) that breaks the
sample into 4 groups:
18-25yrs = 1, 26-45yrs =2, 46-60yrs = 3, 61yrs and above = 4.
Remember to attach value labels to describe what each value in
the new variable represents.
(6 points)
Part B
1. A market researcher is interested in the coffee drinking habits
of males and females. He asks a sample of male and female
office workers to record the number of cups of coffee they
consume during a week.
(a) Which statistical technique could the researcher use to
determine if males and females differ in terms of the number
of cups of coffee consumed in a week? Explain why you have
chosen this technique.
(6 points)
(b) What assumptions should you check for when using the
technique that you chose in question 2(a) above.
(3 points)
2. The following output was obtained using SPSS.
Coefficientsa
Model
Unstandardized Coefficients
Standardized Coefficients
t
Sig.

31. B
Std. Error
Beta
1
(Constant)
-11.823
8.806
-1.343
.198
hours spent revising
.551
.171
.456
3.226
.005
anxiety
.104
.058
.179
1.796
.091
A-level entry points
1.989
.469
.581
4.239
.001
a. Dependent Variable: exam score
(a) Which parametric statistical technique was used to obtain
this output?

32. (3 points)
(b) What research question/s could be addressed using this
output?
(3 points)
(c) Interpret this output in terms of the research question/s you
gave in question 3(b), above.
(3 points)
3. A researcher is interested in assessing the impact of a number
of changes in a public health department on the job satisfaction
of employees. Before the changes are implemented the
researcher distributes a questionnaire to a sample of employees,
which measures their attitudes to their work and their overall
job satisfaction. The same questionnaire is distributed to the
same group of employees one month after the workplace
changes were implemented and again three months later.
(a) Which parametric statistical technique could the researcher
use to see if workers’ job satisfaction levels had changed across
the three time periods measured? Briefly justify your answer.
(3 points)
(b) What non-parametric technique (if any) could be used to
explore this question?
(3 points)
Part C
In this part, you will need to open the data file that accompanies
in dropbox folder
,
survey.sav. Details of the questionnaire, the scales
used, and the codebook are provided in dropbox.
1. Using the

33. survey.sav data file, report the descriptive statistics for
gender, age, marital status, and education level. Write up the
results of these descriptive statistics as they would appear in the
Method section of a research article.
(6 points)
2. (
Bonus Question) It is essential to check the reliability
of scales used in your study. Check the Cronbach alpha values
for the following scales: (
4 points)
(a) Mastery scale
(b) Life Satisfaction scale
(c) Perceived Control of Internal States scale
(d) Perceived Stress scale
3. A researcher is interested in exploring the possibility of
gender differences in levels of perceived stress (total score)
controlling for age (in years as continuous).
(a) Perform the appropriate statistical analysis to address this
question. Be sure to check that you have not violated any
assumptions.
(3 points)
(b) Report the conclusions
(
6 points)
4. The same researcher is interested in exploring the
relationship between perceived control (tpcoiss) and life
satisfaction. She suspects that higher levels of perceived control
would be associated with greater life satisfaction.
(a) Perform whatever analyses you feel are appropriate to
address this question (including assumption testing if
applicable).
(3 points)
(b) Describe the analyses you performed and report on these
analyses and the results, as you would in a research report.

34. (3 points)
5. A researcher is interested in exploring the effect of sex and
age group (age as categorical variable) on Life Satisfaction
scores.
(a) Using the sex and agegp3 variables, perform the appropriate
analyses to address this question. For this particular question, it
is not necessary to show assumption testing.
(3 points)
(b) Report the conclusions
(
6 points)
Part D
Using G power, estimate the sample size for following scenario.
A community health worker wants to compare two intervention,
A and B, for reduction of stress due to COVID pandemic. He
hypothesizes that intervention A (Group 1) will be better than
intervention B (Group 2), in terms of overall stress reduction.
He plans to get a match paired sample of participants from his
community and randomly assign them to one of the two
interventions. He decides to do matching based on demographic
variables. At the end of the experiment, which lasts 2 weeks, a
total PSS (total perceived stress score) will be estimated on
each participant. He also expects that the average difference in
total perceived stress score between the two groups will be
about 5 points. Furthermore, she also assumes the standard
deviation of total stress score for intervention A to be 5 and the
standard deviation for intervention B to be 8. The community
health worker wants to know the number of subjects needed
in each group and total sample size assuming equal
sized groups with 95% power. (Hint: Use G power to estimate
the total sample size. Also assume the correlation between
groups to be 0.5). You may attached screenshot from G*Power
to receive a partial credit for this question (

35. 6 points)
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