Stnadards on Human Relations Flashcards
3.01 Unfair Discrimination
- Respect the dignity and worth of all people and appropriately consider the relevance of personal characteristics based on factors such as age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or socioeconomic status
- Does not reflect personal or organizational biases or prejudices that can lead to injustice
Discrimination by Law
Prohibits discriminating against an individual for filing a complaint, participating in a compliance review or hearing, or opposing an act or practice that is unlawful under the regulation
3.02 Sexual Harassment
- Verbal or nonverbal solicitation, advances, or sexual conduct that occurs in connection with the psychologist’s activities or role as a psychologist
- Behaviors have to be either so severe or intense that a reasonable person would deem them abusive in that context, or, regardless of intensity the psychologist was aware or had been told that the behaviors are unwelcome, offensive, or creating a hostile workplace or educational environment
3.03 Other Harassment
- Prohibits behaviors that draw on these categories to harass or demean individuals with whom psychologists work
- Ethnic slurs and negative generalizations based on gender, sexual orientation, disability, or socioeconomic status whose intention or outcome is lowering status or reputation
Knowingly
- Evolving societal sensitivity to language and behaviors demeaning to different groups may result in psychologists unknowingly acting in a pejorative manner
- Awareness that interpretations of behaviors that are harassing or demeaning can often be subjective
3.04 Avoiding Harm
- Giving low grades to students who perform poorly on exams
- Providing a valid diagnosis that prevents a client/patient from receiving disability insurance
- Conducting personnel reviews that lead to an individual’s termination of employment
- Conducting a custody evaluation in a case in which the judge determines one of the parents must relinquish custodial rights
- Disclosing confidential information to protect the physical welfare of a third party
Steps for Avoiding Harm
-Take reasonable steps to avoid harming those with whom they interact in their professional and scientific roles and to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable
Psychotherapy and Counseling Harms
- Some therapeutic approaches will fail to help alleviate a mental health problem
- Turn to other techniques, seek consultation, or offer an appropriate referral
- Negative symptoms are expected to increase then subside during the natural course of evidence-based treatment
Equipoise and Randomized Clinical Trials
- Fail to respond experimental treatment conditions or experience a decline in mental health during the trial
- Develop procedures to identify and address such possibilities
- Scientifically and clinically informed inclusion and exclusion criteria for patient participation
- The establishment of a data safety monitoring board to evaluate unanticipated risks that may emerge during a clinical trial
- Prior to the initiation of the research, establishing criteria based on anticipated risks for when a trial should be stopped to protect the welfare of participants
3.05 Multiple Relationship
-If the multiple relationship could reasonably be expected to impair the psychologist’s objectivity, competence, or effectiveness in performing his or her functions as a psychologist, or otherwise risks exploitation or harm to the person with whom the professional relationship exists (101)
