The License to Practice
Two advantages to licensure
What are:
Protects the public by establishing minimum standards of service and holding professionals accountable if they do not measure up?
Increases the likelihood that practitioners will be competent, having met standards to obtain a license?
Shields the public from its ignorance or naivete regarding mental health services, helping consumers choose practitioners more judiciously?
Makes mental heath more affordable, since clients going to licensed practitioners may be partly reimbursed by insurance companies?
Upgrades the profession by gathering together practitioners committed to improving and maintaining the highest standards of excellence?
Allows the profession to define itself and its activities more clearly, thus becoming more independent?
Monitoring, examining, or assessing the work of one's colleagues, or having one's own work reviewed by one or more colleagues.
What is peer review?
The dominant economic force in healthcare delivery in the United States.
What is managed care?
A therapist intentionally or unintentionally harmed a client in some specific manner, and consequently may be financially accountable.
Offers standards whose potential violation may provoke both informal and formal discipline.
What is codes of ethics?
True or False?
Possessing a license ensures competency.
What is false?
Publishing research in journals as a means of ensuring the validity, meaning, and value of the work to the profession.
What is peer review as a characteristic of publishing research?
Employers, insurance companies, or union trusts to administer and finance their health benefit programs,
With whom do manager cares organizations contract?
Either deliberately or through ineptitude or carelessness...represents the most likely form of alleged wrongful behavior to produce client litigation.
What is malpractice?
An ethics committee responding to a colleague or client complaint, and determines the practitioner has violated the code of ethics of his or her profession.
When may a range of sections be imposed?
A weaker and less comprehensive form of regulation, simply certifies who has the right to use a professional title.
What are structured peer groups?
An attempt at cost management, done before the therapist may begin treatment.
What is preauthorization?
A therapist is judged in terms of actions appropriate to other therapists with similar qualifications and duties.
What happens when a therapist is sued for malpractice?
Aiding members in their decision making with clients whenever possible areas of conflict arise and members abide by a set of ethical standards that help reassure the public that he or she will demonstrate sensible and responsible behavior.
Regulates who may practice by defining educational and experience criteria, administering qualifying examinations, and stating the conditions under which a license may be revoked.
What is a state licensing law?
Professionals keeping up with new developments in the field by reading professional journals.
What is an ethical responsibility?
Therapists can no longer guarantee this, so clients may with hold vital information or refuse to seek treatment when needed.
What is confidentiality?
Misdiagnosis, practicing outside of one's area of competency, abandonment of a client, physical contact or sexual relations with a client.
What are some common grounds for malpractice?
What professions rely on beyond legal regulation or certification.
What is self-regulation through a variety of procedures?
True or False?
Licenses are generic in the sense that they do not specify what client problems the licensee is competent to work with nor what techniques he or she is trained to use.
What is true?
When therapeutic issues arise, in dealing with otherwise difficult or sticky clinical procedures, or whatever upcoming ethical decisions need scrutiny.
When a therapist may seek further consultation?
The reason behind the option of remaining a solo private practitioner who wishes to provide fee-for-free services outside of managed care organizations.
What is it is less economically feasible?
Patient's agreement and willingness, as well as including failure to discuss significant risks, benefits, and alternative procedures, documented or received by therapist.
What is informed consent?
Offers clients even more protection from forced disclosure of private matters discussed with their therapist than does confidentiality.
What is privileged communication?