Competency
Life-endangering Patients
Assessment
Duty to Warn
Potpourri
100
This is "the habitual and judicious use on communication knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual and community being served."
What is competence?
100
In Pennsylvania, this is the obligatory disclosure of child abuse to Child Protective Services.
What is mandated reporting?
100
These three governing bodies issue ethical standards for the counseling professions. Name one.
What is ACA, APA, or ASCA?
100
This is the name of the landmark California Supreme Court case that established duty to warn standards.
What is Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, Berkeley?
100
Burnout, "working with difficult patients, having too much paperwork, having inadequate time for obligations, and dealing with restrictions imposed by managed care companies", compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, sexual attraction, patient suicides, physical assault, and sexual assault are examples of this
What are occupational hazards of mental health professionals?
200
This is "the ability to withstand the emotional difficulties associated with emotional practice."
What is emotional competence?
200
This ethical principle needs to be considered before involuntary commitment due to threats of suicide.
What is respect for patient autonomy and/or fidelity?
200
This is considered a professional skill that uses professional judgement.
What is testing?
200
These two principles need to be balanced when treating a patient who presents a threat to harming an identifiable third party.
What is respect for patient autonomy and general beneficence?
200
APA Multicultural Guidelines define this as the category to which others assign individuals on the basis of physical characteristics, such as skin color or hair type, and the generalizations and stereotypes made as a result.
What is race?
300
According to the 2010 Census, this demographic group comprised 72% of the U.S. population.
What is White/European American?
300
This ethical principle compels mental health professions to routinely inquire about instances of domestic violence between couples.
What is beneficence?
300
Psychologists are required to obtain this before giving assessments, unless clients are legally unable to do so.
What is informed consent?
300
This case established that a therapist who warns an intended victim via phone is acting within ethical obligations.
What is Emerich v PCHD?
300
Non-traditional treatments used in place of evidence-based treatment are called this.
What is alternative treatment?
400
A doctor using massage therapy in addition to CBT for treating depression is an example of this.
What is complimentary treatment?
400
This is a document that avoids legalistic connotations and is a safety precaution in the efforts to prevent suicide.
What is an agreement?
400
These include potential for compromised confidentiality and security, test results may not be valid because the testing environment cannot be controlled, psychologist cannot make adjustments for cultural or linguistic background, or ensure that the norms obtained from standardized conditions would be the same for testing done via the internet.
What are ethical and practical problems with on-line assessments?
400
According to this study, many of the identifiable third party victims who were warned that a patient expressed intent to harm them were appreciative of the notification. Although most stated that they already suspected danger, some denied an imminent threat.
What is Binder & McNeil (1996)?
400
The advantages of this mode of treatment are that patients with mobility problems, patients living in remote areas, patients with special or unusual problems can receive services that might otherwise be unavailable. This may also allow for continuity of services when patients move or are on extended vacation.
What is teletherapy?
500
This concept allows a mental health professional to work in a field closely related the field in which they have competency even if it is not their original field. The requirements are that it is a non-emergency situation in which no one else is available and they make reasonable efforts to obtain necessary competence.
What is compassionate exception?
500
These three factors are related to likelihood of violence inflicted by patients.
What is past exposure to violence, violence in the surrounding environment, and substance abuse?
500
This is raw and scaled scores, client/patient responses to questions or stimuli, psychologist's notes or recordings regarding client statements or behavior during testing.
What is test data?
500
Psychotherapists in some states are prohibited from warning identifiable victims of persons with this virus.
What is HIV positive?
500
This standard in the APA Code of Ethics states "psychologists who develop tests and other assessment techniques use appropriate psychometric procedures and current scientific or professional knowledge for test design, standardization, validation, reduction or elimination of bias, and recommendations for use.”
What is Standard 9.05?
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