Ethical Standards And Legal Issues (Test #1)

Front 1

mandatory ethics

Back 1

Minimum professional standards

Front 2

principle ethics

Back 2

behavior expected of the therapists in a given situation

Front 3

aspirational ethics

Back 3

highest ethical attitudes and behaviors aspired to by therapists

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virture ethics

Back 4

highest moral character of the therapist

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nonmaleficence

Back 5

do no harm

Front 6

beneficence

Back 6

do good

Front 7

autonomy

Back 7

respect self-determination

Front 8

justice

Back 8

treat everyone fairly

Front 9

fidelity

Back 9

be trustworthy

Front 10

veracity

Back 10

tell the truth

Front 11

competence

Back 11

completed academic training and supervised experience

Front 12

scope of practice

Back 12

boundaries of competence

Front 13

standards of care

Back 13

the consensus treatments and interventions that competent professional colleagues do in the same situations

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malpractice

Back 14

negligence that results in injury or loss

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What the client must show to prove therapist malpractice

Back 15

duty, breach of duty, injury, causation

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most common therapist malpractices (9)

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1. failure to abtain or document informed consent
2. client abandonment
3. marked departure from established therapieutic practices
4. practicing beyond scopes of competency
5. misdiangosis
6. repressed of false memory
7. unhealthy transference relationships
8. sexual misconduct with a client
9. failure to control a dangerous client

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informed consent parts (12)

Back 17

1. goals
2. services
3. acces to their files
4. expecations
5. risks and benefits
6. qualifications of provider
7. financial arrangements
6. duration
7. limitations of confidentiatlity
8. duty to warn/protect/report
9. disclosure of rellevant values
10. release of information
11. termination
12. policy on minors

Front 18

as part of the informed consent: what are the benefits and risks of treatment?

Back 18

a clear description of common effects that counseling will have on clients

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confidentiality v. confidences

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confidentiality: the ethical and legal right of the client to have disclosures and information protected.

confidences: social agreement to keep information private.

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confidentiality v. privileged communication v. right to privacy

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confidentiality: ethical standard

privileged communciation: legal right

right to privacy: constitutional right

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Tarasoff's duty to warn and protect

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duty to warn: reasonable effort to communicate to identifiable victim(s) and law enforcement

protect: take steps (e.g. clinical interventions, reassessments, medications changes, referral, or hospitalizations)

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transference

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the distorted and projected reality the client places on the therapist and the theraputic relationship based on the client's dysfunctional past experiences

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counter-transference

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the therapist's distorted and projected reality of the client and the client's transference

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person-of-the-therapist issues (5)

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1. therapist's worldview
2. motivations
3. self-awareness
4. self-regulation
5. impairment

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blended roles

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dual relationships that are considered beneficial to the client's therapeutic process

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boundary crossings

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crossings of boundaries that are helpful for treatment outcomes

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boundary violations

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crossings of boundaries that harm the client or the therapeutic effectiveness

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exposition of values

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the disclosure of the therapists values in the service of obtaining or maintianing informed consent

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imposition of values

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the inappropriate presumption of the therapist's values without respect to the client's autonomy

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stereotyping

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oversimplification and uncritical generalization of a client or culture

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racism

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denial of access to opportunities or privileges based solely on race

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minority

Back 32

differential and unequal treatment of a group

Front 33

burnout

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a syndorme characterized by psychological, physical and interpersonal exhaustion

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fraud

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misrepresentation of the facts with the intent to decieve

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impairment

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a temporary condition of the therapist or client where they are unable to function at previously competent levels due to mental illness, physical predisposition or convergence of life stressors, never before attained competence

Front 36

supervision v. consultation

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supervisors are legally and ethically liable for their supervisee's behavior

consultations are not binding and therefore no liablity is incurred

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direct liability v. vicarious liability

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direct liability refers to liability that comes from the supervisor's own behavior

vicarious liability pertains to behavior done by their supervisee

Front 38

limits of confidentiality in family/group therapy v. individual therapy

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members of the family/group are not bound by legal or ethical codes, so client disclosures are not protected at the same level of confidentiality as in individual therapy

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Development of a profession

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1. Informal entrance and practices
2. professional associations
-certification (title acts)
3. government oversight
-licensure (practice acts)

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psychologist responses of ethically troubling incidents (top 4)

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1. Confidentiality
2. Blurred, dual, or conflictual relationships
3. academic settings, teaching delemmas, and concerns about training
4. forensic psychology

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Most pressure

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Pressure to graduate students

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Questions to evaluate dual relationships

Back 42

Does it increase expliotation?
Does it decrease objectivity?

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consevrative view of dual relationships

Back 43

don't do them, slippery slope

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moderate view of dual relationships

Back 44

they can be beneficial

Front 45

Descriptive ethics v. normative ethics.

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Descriptive ethics seeks to discover and describe what moral beliefs are held in a given culture.

Normative ethics seeks rather to prescribe an appropriate belief or value.

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Abuse flows in a pattern:

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psychological (therapist getting needs met inadvertently), covert (therapist getting needs met delibrilty but without the knowledge of the client), and overt (Known by both).

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ethical decision making process (8 steps)

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id the type of problem (legal, moral, clinical, professional, ethical)
id the potential ethical issues (justice, veracity, nonmaleficence)
review code
review laws
consultation
consider options
consequences of options
choose the best course of action

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informed consent is ongoing throughout the theraputic relationship

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yes

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4 teir relationship of supervision

Back 49

supervisor, supervisee, client, system

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Supervision is heirarchical relationship with...

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evaluation as a key component along with no to low choice

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Two key differences b/w supervision and consultation

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supervision is hierarchical, evaluative, and no to low choice for the supervisee

consultation is not legally binding

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clinical supervision is

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focused on the supervisee's actions with their clients

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administrative supervision is

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focused on supervisee's actions in the organizations