RM

Question 1

What is the hcpc

Answer 1

regulatory body that exists to monitor healthcare professions including psychologists

Question 2

HCPC- character

Answer 2

Credible character references for people who have known them for at least 3 years. Includes any criminal cautions or convictions.

Question 3

HCPC- Health

Answer 3

information about their general health every 2 years when they re register, required to provide info on health issues which may affect ability to practise

Question 4

HCPC- standards of proficiency

Answer 4

Ability to practice effectively- professional accountability and autonomy, formulation and delivery of plans to meet patients’ needs. Skills must be demonstrated in practice. Specific requirements for forensic, clinical psychologists etc

Question 5

HCPC- standards of conduct, performance, ethics

Answer 5

14 guidelines that must be adhered to. Includes confidentiality, acting in limits of skills, referring to others when necessary

Question 6

HCPC- standards for continuing professional development

Answer 6

Take part in a documenting regular training to develop their own practice. Important for practitioners to keep up to date with trends in clinical practice

Question 7

HCPC- standards of education and training

Answer 7

minimum levels of qualifications required to practice. Practitioner psychologists- Masters with BPS qual, Doctorate for clinical psychologists.

Question 8

HCPC- standards for prescribing

Answer 8

Sets out safe practice for prescribing medication. Required knowledge and training for prescribing

Question 9

What is primary data?

Answer 9

Data researchers gather themselves directly from a group of participants

Question 10

What is secondary data?

Answer 10

Data relying on evidence gathered by other researchers by accessing other peer-reviewed articles or public access stats

Question 11

primary data + and -

Answer 11

+accurate and up to date info, relevant to research objectives
-Expensive, time consuming, may face ethical considerations limiting research

Question 12

secondary data + and -

Answer 12

+Cheap, quick, primary researcher may have more resources to conduct rigorous data collection
-No control over data collection process, cannot refine questions, measures or procedures

Question 13

Longitudinal studies

Answer 13

Takes place over a long period, involves comparing a single sample group with their own performance over -time based developments can be seen. Symptoms measured over time in clinical studies, can show effectiveness of a treatment.

Question 14

Longitudinal studies + and -

Answer 14

+Allow comparisons to be made
+Only way to reliably measure effect of time on behaviour
-Long- can lead to atrition
-By the time meaningful data can be used to draw conclusions, the data may be irrelevant

Question 15

Cross sectional studies

Answer 15

‘Snapshot’ of behaviour, used instead of longitudinal. Large sample.
Example: To know about the experience of Sz at different ages, using participants at different ages at the same time and investigate them rather than studying one group over time

Question 16

Cross sectional studies + and -

Answer 16

+relatively cheap and less time-consuming than other types of research
+allow you to collect data from a large pool of subjects and compare differences between groups.
-Cannot be used to analyse behaviour over a period to time.
-Does not help determine cause and effect.
-The timing of the snapshot is not guaranteed to be representative.

Question 17

Cross-cultural methods

Answer 17

Involves taking samples from different cultural groups to draw comparisons about the similarities and differences between them, and how culture impacts the behaviour.

In clinical- if treatments are effective in different cultural groups , if symptoms are same in different cultures

Question 18

Cross-cultural methods + and -

Answer 18

+Allows researchers to gain understanding of how culture plays a role in validity and reliability of diagnoses
+Identify elements of abnormal behaviour that is purely biological
+Reduces ethnocentrism, improves generalisability of research
-A researcher is unlikely to know much about individual societies when comparing a lot of societies from different parts of the world.

Question 19

Meta-analysis

Answer 19

Looking at secondary data from multiple studies collected by other researchers and drawing the findings together to make overall conclusions.
Conducted when there is a huge amount of research where firm conclusions cannot be drawn.

Question 20

Meta-analysis + and -

Answer 20

+Conclusions can be drawn from a vast array of different areas/ huge sample very quickly and cheaply
+No ethical concerns associated with first-hand research
-Researchers not involved- undisclosed issues with r/v in methods used
-Publication bias- null effects not published- validity

Question 21

Grounded theory

Answer 21

Glaser and Strauss- developing theory from research evidence. Focuses on qualitative research. Research is conducted to gather info about something of interest, theory emerges gradually from data as it is gathered and analysed.

Question 22

Grounded theory + and -

Answer 22

+Evidence integrated into theory, therefore theory should have good validity.

• Researchers were biased in gathering or interpretation of data, theory is subjective and not grounded in evidence
• Selectively sampling data- researchers ‘forcing’ data to support emerging theory
• Long time to gather and analyse info. Takes a lot of skill to decide how data should be coded.