2. Professional profiles and ethics (psychology and ethics)+(evaluation and ethics)

Question 1

Professional expertise

Answer 1

• Adequate scientific and ethical background
• practice within scientific theoretical field
• recognize own limits
• not use tecniques without proved effectiveness
• know limits of techniques and treatments used
• know ethical aspects and how to integrate them

Question 2

Expertise EFPA

Answer 2

• Limist of competence, practice within limits
• Limits of procedures: aware of them, limist of conclusions you can derive, obligation to balance need for caution but also using new methods as a positive development
• Continuing development

Question 3

Respect for privacy

Answer 3

Personal individual sphere divided into:
- Private sphere
- Confidential sphere
- Secret’s sphere

Right to privacy - human dignity
- Patients should provide private info to help
- Relationship based on trust of the patient towards psychologists discretion

Question 4

Confidentiality

Answer 4

• Once information tells inof = confidential
• Adequate storage and handling of info and records. Necessary safeguards to make data anonymous, restricting access to reports an drecords

Limits:
- aware of limitations under the law of the maintenance of confidentiality
- obligation when the legal system requires disclosure (relevant, otherwise confidential)
- Recognition of tension that can arise between confidentiality and the protection of a client or other significant third parties

Question 5

Obligation to report

Answer 5

Evaluate:
- Typo of crime, isolated or recurring
- Injured party unprotected or not
- superior position? abuse?
- Circumstances
- To what extent it affects patient treatment and prejudices that can be caused

Question 6

Two guarantees of psychological evaluation (fernandez)
and two questions (Messick)

Answer 6

• scientific: issued by scientific organization with technical guarantees
• ethical: use to regulate professional behavior
• is the test appropriate to measure what we intent to measure?
• should the test be used for the established goal, an in the way it has been propoposed?

Validity according to consequences - evaluate test according to its potential social consequences.

Question 7

Evaluation:
Professional expertise

Answer 7

• Carry out evaluation in context of professional relationship
• accurate selection of instruments
• Appropriate handle of obtained data
• Give effective advice, not only interpret results
• communicate results in a clear and precise way
• know and control different variables involved in evaluation process
• assume responsibility of evaluation
• know and handle scientific and ethical norms, as well as law

Question 8

Evaluation:
Knowledge of the test
Test misuse

Answer 8

A good knowledge represents a measure of psychologist expertise:
- Which psych. functions describe with accuracy?
- which diagnostic conclusions can be extracted
- degree of certainty
- which type of behaviour can we predict

Misuse:
- deliberate intention to distort the truth
- negligence
- lack of knowledge about test use
Dangers: conclusions beyond what the instrument allows, exaggerate conclusions, not explaining inferential and probabilistic character of interpretations