Leadership, Consultation, and Ethics
Describe how you would work within a professional treatment team to consult, triage, and treat this case. Include a description of the various members of the professional team with whom you would be likely to interact. Additionally, explain the roles and responsibilities of each member of the treatment team.
According to APA Ethics Code (2010), under 4.05 Disclosures, the evaluator can only disclose information by law only for a valid purpose such as to provide needed services, to obtain appropriate professional consultation and to protect client from hurting others and themselves.
In order to meet Danita best interest, it would be best that the evaluator work with a multi-disciplinary team. A multi-disciplinary …show more content…
These cultural identities are Danita’s gender, age, ethnicity, and cultural background. Due to the evaluator being male and from a different ethnic background, the evaluator may feel that there may be many ethical dilemmas that can occur. According to Lu et al. (2016) cultural differences play a big part in which the client’s attitudes, beliefs and values may cause the evaluators attitudes, beliefs and values to clash. This clash can cause misdiagnoses and the inability to formulate a proper therapeutic relationship (Lu et al, 2016).
Another ethical dilemma when dealing with cultural diversity, is that the evaluator can often times become bias in the way they interpret the results of any assessment tools being used during the clinical interview. This may also cause misconception and misdiagnosis.
Knowing the problem, the evaluator must consider his boundaries of competent. According to the APA Ethics Code (2010), a psychologist must provide services within the boundaries of their competence. The evaluator must make sure that he is qualified to treat this case. Once the evaluator has considered his competence, and believes that he is incompetent, the evaluator should inform his client (county jail) that he is seeking consultation from the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2010), and the Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology (2013) for dealing with …show more content…
According to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2010), under standard 4.06, a psychologist when consulting with a colleague may not disclose confidential information that could identity the client, but may disclose information only to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of their consultation. In this particular case the evaluator is consulting for Danita’s cultural characteristics. During consultation, the evaluator is seeking understanding in Danita culture attitudes, beliefs and
Describe how you would work within a professional treatment team to consult, triage, and treat this case. Include a description of the various members of the professional team with whom you would be likely to interact. Additionally, explain the roles and responsibilities of each member of the treatment team.
According to APA Ethics Code (2010), under 4.05 Disclosures, the evaluator can only disclose information by law only for a valid purpose such as to provide needed services, to obtain appropriate professional consultation and to protect client from hurting others and themselves.
In order to meet Danita best interest, it would be best that the evaluator work with a multi-disciplinary team. A multi-disciplinary …show more content…
These cultural identities are Danita’s gender, age, ethnicity, and cultural background. Due to the evaluator being male and from a different ethnic background, the evaluator may feel that there may be many ethical dilemmas that can occur. According to Lu et al. (2016) cultural differences play a big part in which the client’s attitudes, beliefs and values may cause the evaluators attitudes, beliefs and values to clash. This clash can cause misdiagnoses and the inability to formulate a proper therapeutic relationship (Lu et al, 2016).
Another ethical dilemma when dealing with cultural diversity, is that the evaluator can often times become bias in the way they interpret the results of any assessment tools being used during the clinical interview. This may also cause misconception and misdiagnosis.
Knowing the problem, the evaluator must consider his boundaries of competent. According to the APA Ethics Code (2010), a psychologist must provide services within the boundaries of their competence. The evaluator must make sure that he is qualified to treat this case. Once the evaluator has considered his competence, and believes that he is incompetent, the evaluator should inform his client (county jail) that he is seeking consultation from the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2010), and the Specialty Guidelines for Forensic Psychology (2013) for dealing with …show more content…
According to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2010), under standard 4.06, a psychologist when consulting with a colleague may not disclose confidential information that could identity the client, but may disclose information only to the extent necessary to achieve the purpose of their consultation. In this particular case the evaluator is consulting for Danita’s cultural characteristics. During consultation, the evaluator is seeking understanding in Danita culture attitudes, beliefs and