Chapter 3 - Current Issues Flashcards
Academy of Psychological Clinical Science
An organization of clinical psychology programs and clinical psychology internship sites committed to the clinical scientist model of training. The academy is affiliated with the Association for Psychological Science (APS).
Ambulatory Assessment
Assessing the emotions, behaviors, and cognitions of individuals as they are interacting with the environment in real time.
American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP)
An organization that offers certification of professional competence in many psychology specialties. ABPP certification may be sought after 5 years of postdoctoral experience and is granted on the basis of an oral examination, the observed handling of a case, and records from past cases.
Certification
A professional regulation that prohibits people from calling themselves psychologists while offering services to the public for a fee unless they have been certified by a state board of examiners.
Client Welfare
An ethical principle that calls upon psychologists to respect the integrity of their clients and to guard the relationship from exploitation. This principle encompasses ethical standards such as avoiding dual relationships with clients and discontinuing treatment when it is clearly no longer beneficial.
Clinical Scientist Model
A training model that encourages rigorous training in empirical research methods and the integration of scientific principles into clinical practice.
Combined Professional-Scientific Training Program
A training model that offers a combined specialty in clinical, counseling, and school psychology.
Competence
An ethical principle that calls upon psychologists to recognize the boundaries of their professional expertise and to keep up-to-date on information relevant to the services they provide.
Confidentiality
An ethical principle that calls upon psychologists to respect and protect the information shared with them by clients, disclosing this information only when they have obtained the client’s consent (except in extraordinary cases in which failing to disclose the information would place the client or others at clear risk for harm).
Cultural Competence
A knowledge and appreciation of other cultural groups and the skills to be effective with members of these groups.
Diversity
The presence of differences, or variety.
Ethical Standards
As pertains to psychologists, enforceable rules of professional conduct identified by the APA.
Health Maintenance Organization (HMO)
A managed care system that employs a restricted number of providers to serve enrollees. In an HMO, costs for all services are fixed.
Licensing
A professional regulation that is more stringent that certification. It specifies not only the nature of the title and training required for licensure but also the professional activities that may be offered for a fee.
Managed Care
A profit-driven, corporate approach to health (and mental health) care that attempts to contain costs by controlling the length and frequency of service utilization, restricting the types of service provided and requiring documentation of treatment necessity and efficacy.
