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23 Cards in this Set
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Client Welfare
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"Take reasonable steps" to avoid and minimize harm to clients, students, research participants, and others.
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Pro Bono
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Recommended but not required.
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Ethical Violations by Colleagues
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Encourages informal discussion if possible.
Formal report if "substantial harm" and informal discussion is ineffective. Confidentiality MUST be considered. |
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Complainants & Respondents
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Psychologists cannot deny employment, advancement, admissions to academic programs, tenure, or promotion based solely upon their having made or their being the subject of an ethics complaint.
AFTER, anything goes. |
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When changing specialties (Neuro to Educational Psych)...
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Must complete coursework and supervised training required for a doctoral degree.
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When learning a new technique...
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Client must be aware and make special care to do no harm.
Informed consent is important. |
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Vicarious Liability (Respondeat Superior)
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Being responsible for interns or employees actions.
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Personal Problems
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When they interfere with duties seek help.
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Informed Consent
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"Informed"
1. Capacity 2. Comprehension 3. Voluntariness DOCUMENT! |
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Record Keeping Guidelines
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Institutional then 3 + 12.
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Psychotherapy Notes
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Do not have to be released to patient.
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Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and Buckley Amendment
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Educational institutions receiving federal funds.
Prohibits schools from disclosing info w/o consent of parents or 18 yo students. Inspection of ed records. |
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Collection Agency
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You must notify client and give them a chance to pay.
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Withholding Records due to nonpayment...
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Cannot in emergency.
Can in non-emergency, but come on. |
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Referral Fees
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Must be based on cost/services.
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Bartering
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Allowed when it is not clinically contraindicated and when your not exploiting pt.
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Informed Consent in Research
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Not always necessary (not likely to caus harm; is part of normal educatin or occupatinal practices; or involves administering an anonymous servey.
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Malpractice
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1. Pro relationship
2. Broke rules 3. Harm 4. Harm is proximately caused by professional. |
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Most Frequent Unethical Behavior...
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...Sexual and Other Dual Relationships.
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Insanity
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Legal concept, which states that a person is not guilty by reason of insanity if, because of a mental disease, that person lasks substantial capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of the act or lacts substantial capacity to behave according to the requirements of the law.
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Competence to Stand Trial
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Ability to understand charges and work with lawyer.
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Fact Witness
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Not allowed to offer an opinion.
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Expert Witness
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Opinion
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