EXTRA 38 Flashcards
Subpoena
Subpoena: First step contact patient to see if he/she wants to wave or invoke privilege.
Supervisor Employment and Availability
Supervisor Employment and Availability
Supervisor must be employed (full-time or part-time) by the facility in which the supervised works.
“Available” indicates availability by phone or pager or face-to-face.
5300
Danger to others. 180 day hold. Can renew as needed.
5250
14 day hold
Registered Psychologist
Only for post-doc
Must have doctorate and 1500 hrs of supervised professional experience.
Must work for nonprofit that receives 25% gov’t funding.
Registration in effect for 30 months.
Cannot be renewed with same agency.
Psychological Practice
“Psychological Practice”: providing individual, group, organisation, public with any psychological services involving application of psychological principles, methods and procedures of understanding, predicting, and influencing behaviour.
Does not include prescription medication, performing surgery, or ECT.
Coursework Required For License
Coursework Required For License:
Treatment of substance use (one semester/quarter)
Human sexuality (10 hours)
Child abuse (7 hours)
Spousal and partner abuse (2 hours)
Aging and long-term care (10 hours)
Suicide assessment and intervention (6 hours)
Registration of Psychological Assistant
Registration of Psychological Assistant
Psychological assistant must be registered with BOP
Must review registration annually
If delinquent, cannot practice. Must review within 60 days of expiration.
The psychological assistant must notify the BOP within 30 days of acquiring new supervisor.
Can be a psychological assistant for a total of 6 years (72 months).
Patient Notification of Supervisory Status
Patient notification of Supervisory Status
Primary supervisor responsible for informing patient of student status of supervised. Informed patient fees for services must be paid directly to primary supervisor or employer. This notification may occur in person by supervisor or in witness statement signed by the supervisor and given to patient.
Supervisor – Supervisory Agreement
Supervisor – Supervisory Agreement
Must identify: the primary supervisor/the supervising
Capacity in which supervised will perform (NP, Therapy)
Start date/completion date
Duties performed by supervisee
Address of each location at which duties will be performed
Goals and objectives
How often supervisor will be providing feedback
Custody and Parental Access to Records
Custody and Parental Access to Records
Legal custody only and physical custody is not required for a parent to ask to inspect a minor’s records. If the minor is not lawfully being treated w/o the consent of the parents.
Psychology License
Psychology License
Expired license must be renewed within 3 years of expiration.
A non-practicing psychologist may request license places on inactive status.
CE requirements: required to obtain 36 hours of CE renewal cycle, average 1.5 CE hours per month.
Inactive license are exempt from CE requirement. However, to reactivate must complete 36 hours continuing education training in law and ethics as well as other mandatory courses for the 2 year period to establish new license only 75% of hours can be “independent learning.”
Courses focusing on business are not counted as CE.
Each renewal cycle required to certify that have taken courses in law and ethics, no minimum number of hours indicated.
Primary creditors include APA, APA sponsorship, continuing medical education courses, CA Psychological Association, continuing medical education.
Upon renewal, psychologists are not required to prove that they have taken 36 CE courses. However, a random audit may occur by BOP requesting proof.
Supervisors must complete a minimum of 6 hours of supervision courses every 2 years. This does not apply to license requirement.
Mediation (NonD)
Mediation
Takes place when determine that there was no clear violation of the law but a misunderstanding occurred between parties.
5260
Second 14 day hold. Last 14 days hold. Next is 5270.15 30 day hold.
Supervision Issues
Supervision Issues
Supervisor can’t be paid by supervised
Supervisor can’t be related to supervisee.
Psychological Assistant may not rent office space from the supervisor or employee.
Psychological Assistant can’t take fees for services provided except as an employee of the person or organisation they re registered under.
If advertising, psychological assistant should indicate they re being supervised, registration number and the name and license # of supervisor.