Professional Conduct
This kind of relationship: your client is also your pool boy.
What is a dual relationship?
All of your client files are sitting on your kitchen table. This is contradicting what standard.
What is security of client records?
A health information custodian shall not collect, use, or disclose personal health information unless they have this.
Often part of the informed consent process, and references any time breaching the trust of the client by disclosing things said in private is permitted.
What are the limits of confidentiality?
The number one rule.
What is don't engage in sexual relations with a current client?
A parent asks you to see their four year old child when you and your supervisor have never worked with children. This standard prohibits you from working with this client.
What are areas of competence?
You just terminated services with a fourteen year old, when can you shred his records?
What is his 28th birthday?
This act governs the collection, use, and disclosure of personal health information by health information custodians.
What is Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA)?
You're giving a presentation on anxiety and accidentally used a clients real name when giving an example.
What is a breach of confidentiality?
This must be presented to and received from the client prior to proceeding with any services.
What is informed consent?
A private practice psychologist buys a billboard advertisement advertising herself as an expert in substance abuse therapy after she has read Substance Abuse Counselling for Dummies.
What is false advertising?
While completing an assessment, a client asks you to refrain from telling the referral source that they are working for cash. You assume it's okay to just leave this out.
What is falsifying information?
You schedule a call with your client's case manager to discuss their return to work plan. You don't need your client's consent due to what PHIPA policy.
What is circle of care?
We have a duty to report these types of child abuse.
What is sexual, physical, emotional, and neglect?
A therapist should do this if they are inexperienced with a condition a patient is demonstrating.
What is refer to another provider or seek supervision?
You get a notification on your phone that your client has viewed your LinkedIn profile. What do you do?
What is avoid engagement?
A psychologist agrees to allow a client who cannot pay for services to clean his house in exchange for therapy services.
What is barter with clients/patients?
Consent of an individual for the collection, use, or disclosure of personal health information by a health information custodian must include these four.
What is consent of the individual, knowledgable, related to the information, and not obtained through deception or coercion?
You have a client who discloses that they engaged in self-harm yesterday. The client states that they have no intent to end their life but you are concerned that they will harm again. What do you do?
What is completing a risk assessment and creating a safety plan?
This is compromised when a therapist treats a friend, neighbour, past lover, family member, or some other known associate.
What is objectivity?
This type of conflict of interest refers to the convictions one holds that may prescribe or prohibit particular actions (i.e., religious beliefs or personal values).
What is moral interest?
This type of consent is technically not required by law.
What is written consent?
The age of consent for a child.
What is there is no age?
Name all the limits of confidentiality.
What is harm to others/self, child or elder abuse, CPO audit, court subpoena, and sexual abuse by regulated health professional?
Individuals of this population may have limited capacity to consent, reduced voluntariness to their consent or involvement, difficulties in cognitive or emotional functioning, economic disadvantage, history of discrimination/oppression due to culture or other factors, or urgency of a situation.
What are vulnerable persons?