Professional Issues Flashcards
State psychology licensing boards protect the public by determining the __________ into the profession and monitoring the performance of licensed psychologists.
Standards for admission
The EPPP is designed to assist the boards in evaluating the qualifications of applicants for licensure by assessing the __________ that has been identified as foundational to the competent practice of psychology.
Knowledge
__________ is a legal concept that serves as the basis for criminal defense in many jurisdictions, while __________ refers to defendant’s ability to consult with their lawyer with a “reasonable degree of rational understanding.”
Insanity
Competence to stand trial
A __________ witness testifies to what they have seen, heard, or observed regarding an event or ocurrence and is usually not allowed to offer an opinion, while a __________ witness is qualified by the court based on their expertise to offer opinions and respond to hypothetical situations.
Fact witness
Expert witness
For a person to bring a claim of malpractice, four conditions must be met: first, the psychologist must have had a professional relationship with the person that established a __________.
Second, there must be a demonstrable __________ that the psychologist has breached. Third, the person suffered harm or injury.
And fourth, the psychologist’s breach of duty was the __________ of the person’s harm or injury.
Duty of care
Standard of care
Proximate cause
The first step in responding to a subpoena is to determine if it is __________.
Legally valid
A subpeona requires a formal response. The psychologist should contact client to discuss the implications of providing the requested information and obtain the client’s consent.
If the client does not consent and requesting party continues to demand information, the psychologist can have their attorney file a motion to quash the subpoena or motion for a __________.
Protective order
When a request for confidential client information arises for the first time in a court or at a deposition, the psychologist may assert the __________.
Psychotherapist-patient privilege
Research has shown that male therapists engage in sexual relationships with clients more often than female therapists, and the clients they become involved with our most often female, and that these male therapists are typically __________ than the female clients.
older
Therapists that report sexual boundary violations are also more likely to report being involved in __________ crossings.
non-sexual boundary
HIPAA’s __________ provides minimum standards for the access and use of a patient’s health information and distinguishes between protected health information and psychotherapy notes.
Privacy Rule
HIPAA takes precedence over state law when the state law provides patients with less control over their health records, but it is superseded by state law only when the law is more __________.
Stringent
Cost analysis is conducted to determine the optimal allocation of financial resources.
__________ analysis is useful when the interventions to be compared have similar goals but it is not possible to assign a monetary value to their outcomes, which are expressed in measurable terms such as number of clients who dropout prematurely, or scores on a measure symptom severity.
Cost-effectiveness
__________ analysis involves comparing alternative interventions by comparing their costs with the value of their outcomes in terms of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs)
Cost-utility
The APA publication manual recommends that references to racial and ethnic group be as specific as possible, and that the generic use of the __________ be avoided by using the plural form of the noun and pronoun, or by omitting the pronoun when confusion is unlikely, and that people be put first when describing people with a __________.
Masculine pronoun
Physical or mental disability
