Week 13

Question 1

According to the notes for tutorial 6, what percentage of women and what percentage of men have eating disorders?

Answer 1

10, 5

Question 2

It is most true to say that the cognitive neo-association theory
of Leonard Berkowitz combines ideas derived from which subdisciplines
of psychology?
• learning theory, animal behaviour, evolutionary psychology
• animal behaviour, social psychology, cognitive psychology
• cognitive psychology, social psychology, learning theory
• evolutionary psychology, health psychology, social
psychology
• social psychology, personality psychology, relationship
psychology

Answer 2

• cognitive psychology, social psychology, learning theory

Question 3

• cognitive psychology, social psychology, learning theory

Answer 3

Boundaries and multiple relationships

Question 4

What do you have to do to continue your ongoing professional development?

Answer 4

• Must have a learning plan
• This is flexible and can be changed to take
new educational opportunities
• 30 hours CPD required each year
• Must include 10 hours of peer consultation
each year
• “supervision and consultation in individual
or group format for the purposes of
professional development and support in
the practice of psychology ”

Question 5

If you are doing peer consultancy, can you use this 10 hours for your own CPD?

Answer 5

No

Question 6

Does supervising interns count as CPD?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

What are the 3 dimensions of burnout?

Answer 7

Exhaustion- lack of cognitive capacity, proceeding of emotions
Cynicism- depersonalisation of the client
Feeling ineffective

Question 8

What is miss match theory

Answer 8

Mismatch theory (Maslach et al., 2000)
suggests that burnout is far more likely when there is a mismatch between the
employees needs/capacity and working conditions in the following 6 areas
1. Workload – amount, type (does it match your skills, abilities, interests, personality, morals?)
2. Control – over resources, decisions. Are
responsibilities possible given resources?
3. Rewards – financial, social, intrinsic
4. Community – cooperative; respectful; enjoyable vs isolating, conflict prone?
5. Fairness – inequities, how management handle ‘cheats’
6. Values – asked to be unethical? Poor
organisational values; Org. values conflict with org. practices

Question 9

What are the factors within the person that make you more likely to burn out

Answer 9

1- Demographics
2- personality
3- attitudes