WorksheetsAviation Mental Health for Wellness Counsellors (short version)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
Aviation mental health primarily focuses on...
cognitive performance and ergonomics
physical fitness and nutrition
emotional wellbeing, mental fitness, and psychosocial adjustment
economic management of airlines
A key ethical consideration for counsellors working with pilots is:
Prioritising regulation over wellbeing
Ensuring confidentiality within legal and safety boundaries
Reporting all disclosures to employers
Avoiding discussions of personal distress
Why is the sixth task identified by Bor and Hubbard (2006) — prevention and promotion — especially relevant to ASCHP counsellors?
It aligns with the ASCHP’s emphasis on proactive, wellness-based care
It requires medical certification to apply
It focuses on diagnosing pathology
It mandates performance assessments
From a systems perspective, why is mental health considered integral to aviation safety?
Emotional wellbeing reduces the need for regulations
Untreated psychological distress can impair cognitive functioning and decision-making
Aviation safety and mental health are unrelated
Regulations already ensure sufficient protection
Reframing help-seeking as a professional responsibility rather than weakness achieves which goal?
Encourages avoidance of counselling
Reduces stigma and promotes early engagement
Enforces mandatory reporting
Focuses counselling on performance metrics
Which of the following is not typically a barrier to help-seeking in regulated professions?
Fear of job loss
Concerns about confidentiality
High awareness of mental health benefits
Perceived weakness or loss of competence
A counsellor working with an air traffic controller learns that the client fears being deemed unfit to work. The best initial response is to:
Report the concern to the employer immediately
Explore these fears, provide accurate psychoeducation, and clarify confidentiality limits
Terminate the session to avoid ethical conflict
Offer to write a medical fitness report
The wellness model moves counselling from problem-solving toward:
Blame and diagnosis
Strength activation and prevention
Punitive accountability
External regulation
Which of the following is a behavioural coping strategy commonly encouraged among pilots?
Rumination
Structured rest, exercise, and healthy routines
Suppressing emotions
Ignoring stress signals
In aviation settings, emotion regulation is critical because:
Emotional expression is unprofessional
It allows personnel to manage arousal and make safe, rational decisions under pressure
Regulations prohibit emotional disclosure
It increases risk tolerance
A counsellor teaches a pilot self-monitoring tools to detect fatigue before it impairs judgment. This exemplifies:
Clinical diagnosis
Preventative psychoeducation for self-regulation
Therapeutic exposure
Cognitive restructuring
The primary goal of preventative wellness systems in regulated professions is to:
Punish non-compliance
Support early intervention, wellbeing, and resilience before crises occur
Replace formal therapy
Monitor employee performance
Informed consent ensures that:
Clients agree to counselling with full understanding of process, limits, and rights
Counsellors can act without explanation
Only minors need to sign agreements
Confidentiality is unnecessary
Confidentiality limitations should be explained to clients:
Only if they ask
At the beginning of counselling, before disclosure occurs
Only during crises
After records are shared with employers
A counsellor learns that a pilot’s fatigue may endanger safety. Ethically, the counsellor should:
Breach confidentiality immediately without consultation
Discuss the risk, explain the limits of confidentiality, and consult supervision before action
Ignore the issue to preserve trust
Inform the employer without informing the client
