Lecture 10 Flashcards

1
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How many members does the APS have?

A

22000

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2
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How many colleges does the APS have?

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9

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3
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How many interest groups does the APS have?

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48

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4
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What does the Australin Psychology Accreditation Council do?

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Accredits psych courses

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5
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What does the Psychology board of australia do?

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Regulates profession.

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6
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What does AHPRA do?

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– Implements policies and decisions of the PsyBA

– Administration for all 14 registered health professions

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7
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What are the three codes of conduct?

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National Practice Standards for the Mental
Health Workforce
• APS code of ethical conduct (Also
Registration Board)

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8
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What standards are specific to psychologists?

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  • Code of Ethics
  • Ethical and Practice Guidelines and
  • Procedures
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9
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What is standard one?

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: Rights and responsibilities,

safety and privacy

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10
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What do you do if the client says they are going to kill their brother?

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Higher ethic. Tell them that if their life is in danger, and or someone elses life is, they are bound by mental health act

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11
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What is standard 2?

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St’nd’d 2: Consumer and carer participation

About clients and consumers being actively engaged and having a voice.

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12
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What is standard 3?

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Awareness of diversity

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13
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What is standard 4?

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Mental health problems and mental health disorders- know what youre talking about

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14
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What is standard 5?

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Promotion and prevention.

When it comes to mental health, prevention is the most important part.

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15
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What is standard 6

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Early detection and intervention

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16
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What is standard 7

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Assessment, treatment, relapse prevention and support.

Use appropriate methods.

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17
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What is standard 8?

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Integration and partnership

Use all different types of services so that they can access them all.

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18
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What is standard 9?

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• Standard 9: Service planning,
development and management

When putting system together, play your part.

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19
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What is standard 10?

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Documentation and information systems

Keep good notes!

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20
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What is standard 11?

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Evaluation and research

Become involved with research

21
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When are you bound by the APS?

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As soon as you jopin the APS, or register

22
Q

What is conduct?

A

An act or an omission. 24/7

23
Q

What is multiple relationships?

A

occur when a
psychologist, rendering a psychological
service to a client, also is or has been:
• (a) in a non-professional relationship with
the same client;
• (b) in a different professional relationship
with the same client;
• (c) in a non-professional relationship with an
associated party; or
• (d) a recipient of a service provided by the
same client.

24
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What do you do if you are rural?

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Set up very clear boundaries, and get client to repeat back to you.

25
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APS code of ethics general principles

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Justice
Respect
Informed consent
Privacy
Confidentiality
Disclosure
Release of information to clients
Collection of client information from associated parties.
26
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What is informed consent?

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• Fully inform clients regarding psychological
services they intend to provide
• Use plain language
• Provides practical guidelines for how a
psychologist can ensure consent is informed
• Guidelines for when clients do not have the
capacity to consent

27
Q

When do you have mandatory reporting?

A

Child abuse
Any other kind of elder abuse
You call facs
You must take action on someone in danger

28
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When you consult someone, how do you keep disclosure

A

• When consulting colleagues or in professional
supervision or training BUT MUST conceal
identity of client or get consent. Recipients of
knowledge must agree to confidentiality

29
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How long must you keep records until?

A

7 years, but if under 18 keep till 25.

Clients can amend inaccurate records.

30
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When taking notes, would should you do about reasonable forseeability?

A

Make thorough notes, write why you have said something.

31
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When you have multiple clients, what should you do?

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(a) explain to each client the limits to
confidentiality in advance;
• (b) give clients an opportunity to consider the
limitations of the situation;
• (c) obtain clients’ explicit acceptance of these
limitations; and
• (d) ensure as far as possible, that no client is
coerced to accept these limitations.

32
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Why would you terminate services?

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• Client no longer benefiting from services
• Well-being of client is paramount
• Reasonable arrangements for the continuity
of service provision when no longer able to
deliver the psychological service
• When client needs greater expertise than
you can provide

33
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What are the important things to remember when doing psychological assessment?

A
• Use quality instruments/measures
• Understand and make clear to clients the
limitations of the measures/techniques
• Score and report accurately
• Do not compromise tests or make public
34
Q

If you want to have a sexual relationship, when can you?

A

• (c) who wish to engage in sexual activity with
former clients after a period of two years from the
termination of the service, first explore with a
senior psychologist the possibility that the former
client may be vulnerable and at risk of
exploitation, and encourage the former client to
seek independent counselling on the matter; and
• (d) do not accept as a client a person with whom
they have engaged in sexual activity

Never if you are a freudian psychologist

35
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What is the relevant legislation?

A

NSW mental health act

36
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Who does the act apply to?

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  1. are admitted to a mental health facility
    voluntarily (called voluntary patients);
  2. are admitted to or detained in a mental
    health facility against their wishes (called
    involuntary patients);
  3. are required to receive treatment in the
    community.
37
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What are the categories of unvoluntary patients?

A

Involuntary
Forensic
Community treatment order

38
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Whats an involuntary patient?

A

admitted to or detained
in hospital against their wishes, generally on
the advice of a certified Medical/Mental
Health Practitioner

39
Q

What is a forensic patient

A

patient is admitted to or
detained in hospital against their wishes,
having committed an offence and being
currently mentally ill

40
Q

What is a community treatment order

A

• Is generally ordered when (a) the person is
currently mentally ill, or (b) the person is not
currently mentally ill, but is judged by a
suitably qualified practitioner to be likely to
become mentally ill within 3 months, and (c)
a CTO is judged to be the least restrictive
alternative for treatment.

41
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What criteria must be met for formal admission to occur?

A

The person meets criteria for being formally
admitted as either:
• A Mentally Ill Person
• A Mentally Disordered Person

42
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What is a mentally ill person?

A

• A Mentally Ill person
• Criteria:
• Has a mental illness; AND
• Is at risk of serious harm to self and others.
This includes
•physical harm
•harm to reputation
•harm to relationships
•harm to finances
•self-neglect; AND
Has a continuing condition, including any
likely deterioration is taken into account;
AND
• No other care of a less restrictive kind is
available

43
Q

What is the definition of mental illness?

A

• A condition that seriously impairs, either
temporarily or permanently, the mental
functioning of a person and is characterized
by the presence of any one or more of the
following symptoms or signs:

• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Serious disorder of thought form
• Severe disturbance of mood
• Sustained or repeated irrational behaviour
indicating that the person is having
delusions or hallucinations.
44
Q

What is a mentally disordered person?

A

A Mentally Disordered Person
• Criteria:
• Displaying irrational behaviour; AND
• Significant physical risk to self or others;
AND
• No other care of a less restrictive kind is
available

45
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What is the exclusion for formal admissions?

A

• A person cannot be regarded as “Mentally Ill”
or “Mentally Disordered” for the purpose of
the Act merely because of the presence or
lack of:
• Religious beliefs or philosophy;
• Sexual preference/orientation
Past or current involvement in:
• Sexual promiscuity;
• Immoral or illegal conduct;
• Or because the person
• Has a developmental disability;
• Takes or has taken alcohol or any other drug;
• Engages in anti-social behaviour

46
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When a person is formally detained, how long can they be detained for?

A

up to 3 days

47
Q

What are the two key differences between 1990 and 2007

A

Allowing Ambulance drivers to formally
admit patients;
• Collapsing two types of Community
Treatment Orders into a single category

48
Q

Who does mandatory reporting go to?

A

PBA

49
Q

What is notifiable conduct?

A

• placed the public at risk of substantial harm in
the practitioner’s practice of the profession
because the practitioner has an impairment; or
• placed the public at risk of harm because the
practitioner has practised the profession in a
way that constitutes a significant departure from
accepted professional standards.