Professional Roles - Exam 1 Flashcards
What is pediatric psychology?
In short, it means “children’s health psychology”.
Know what a pediatric psychologist is and the different responsibilities they can have.
They provide different types of services (interdisciplinary teams, consultation-liaison). They can provide psychosocial services related to pediatric health conditions (coping + adjustment to diagnosis of chronic illness, pain management, etc.). They can provide psychological services for mental health problems within a medical setting (behavioral challenges during/after hospitalization). They can also assess and treat psychological problems in a medical setting without a pediatric illness. They also can provide advocacy for public policy related to pediatric health.
Know what a consultation-liaison is and the different responsibilities they can have.
Consultation: Evaluation advocacy support for pediatric team and education (evaluating stress component to pain, etc.)
Liaison: Education of staff, facilitating communication between parents and staff, talking to doctors + social workers + family (essentially the “middle man”)
What are the different settings a pediatric psychologist can work in?
They can work in different environments (clinical service delivery - medical units, critical care units -, medical outpatient clinics, specialty clinics, community support agencies and groups, university settings, medical schools, research, etc.).
What is interdisciplinary care?
Interdisciplinary essentially means they work with all kinds of different departments. They involve themselves in collaboration with other providers, this can be social workers, the doctors, physical therapists, etc.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
The model was created by George Engel and proposed that, instead of a biomedical consideration alone, it was important to also consider the psychological, behavioral, and social aspects of an illness. The model is used as a framework for health care, research, and teaching.
Biological: Often associated with the relationship of disease and bodily health
Social: interpersonal factors such as social interactions and community activities
Psychological: the aspects of mental and emotional wellness that also relate to behavior
What is the difference between inpatient and outpatient care?
Inpatient essentially means that the child will stay in the hospital for whatever reasons and be in there for an extended period of time. Outpatient means that they won’t be in the hospital for an extended period of time (usually clinics and such)
What are the different responsibilities a pediatric psychologist may have working in inpatient vs. outpatient care?
Inpatient: Consultation/liaison services, working in medical units (typically interdisciplinary interventions, often overlap with outpatient clinic), clinical care units (PICU, burn units)
Outpatient: Primary care (private practices with a pediatrician), speciality clinics (feeding, endocrinology - typically as part of an interdisciplinary team)
Be familiar with the Pediatric Psychosocial Preventative Health Model (PPPHM).
PPHM stratifies intervention and prevention in response to a variety of factors. It includes a family risk model for screening and providing services (at the universal, targeted, and clinical intervention level)
What are the six C’s of consultation?
Crisis, coping, compliance (adherence), communication, collaboration, changing systems (they later added this C)
