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Ethics in Clinical Psychology
It's a flash card for my law and ethics class in the clinical psychology PhD program
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Psychology
Graduate
05/02/2010

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Scientific Misconduct
Definition

You don’t change the research design half way through or change your data. You cannot get additional subjects to improve your power. If you don’t have enough N you should completely collecting data until you have one!

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Animal Research
Definition

1.   To justify using it has to be increase the knowledge about that species or human kind.

2.   You can’t do research on the animal to just to do research on animals. You need to good take care of animal. UCLA they gave vets, special animal assistance on staff.

3.   Any precede that cause pain in animal use have to use the anesthesia, unless the study on pain!

4.   If pain is unavoidable you need to justify by scientific educational knowledge.

5.   Death should be painless and quick. It must show humanness.

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Involuntarily Civil Commitment
Definition

The law permits the involuntary commitment of people with psychiatric disabilities who are either dangerous to themselves or others or gravely disabled. A gravely disabled person is someone who may suffer serious harm because he fails to provide for his basic human needs and refuses to accept necessary hospitalization.

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5150

Definition

Based on California Welfare and Institution code, section 51, 50 (Self-care Institutions Code section 5150). Calling for 5150 does not make them automatically under commitment.

As a result of mental disorder the person is dangerous to him self or other or greatly disabled (when u are not able to provide for your basic needs)

 

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Who determines the involuntarily commitment?
Definition
Police officers or peace officers or another person designated by county
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PET Team
Definition
Psychiatric Emergency Team
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If the person is get 5150, how long they might stay in hospital?
Definition

Initially 72 hours, but if the psychologist decided anytime during the process that they do not need any observation they get released.

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Timelines for 5150
Definition
Initial 72 hours followed by 14 days additional and 180 days.
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Personal rights when clients are committed 
Definition

1) Less restrictive method of treatment

2) Right to communicate

3) Refuse the following treatments:

Behavioral Modification for Thought or control, ECT, Psychosurgecry

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Rules for psychotropic medication
Definition

Psychotropic medication they may or may not, they psychotropic medication can be refused if the person has the ability to do informed consent. 

 

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Practice Liability
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Duty of Care
Definition
Measure by Standard of Care
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What are two duties of therapist?
Definition

  • Duty of Care
  • Duty of confidentiality

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Standard of Care
Definition

Based on what a reasonable professional with the same license and the same training would do given the same situations. 

Term

Mental care provider has the duty to exercise the degree of .........

Definition

care, knowledge and skill ordinary possessed in the excersie in the similar situations by the average professional in that field and in that location

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If you go below standard of Care you are automatically.....
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Eligible for Malpractice!
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If you violated any specific ethical or legal code
Definition
There is no need to proof for you to be below standard of care because you are automatically under the standard of care
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If you proved that you reached the standard of care  but you still need to........

Definition

  • Prove for Injury
  • Prove for proximate cause

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Statue of Limitation for Malpractice

Definition

Unless if somebody is minor you have one year from the day that you knew or you should have known or 3 years from the time that action happens, (the day that person did the malpractice) go with the one that shorter. Only one year from the day that act complained of.

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In order for someone to sue you for malpractice they have to give you

Definition
90 days written notice 
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Proof of injury
Definition

might psychological injury, injury might be they tried to do suicide and they are brain dead , if you give the advice. Court usually don’t take the psychological injury serious unless it is around sex, suicidal, murder bigger scandal.

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Privilege is to Confidentiality as Scope of Competency is to Score of .......
Definition
Licensure
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Two Primary Duties owed by a psychologist to a clients are:
Definition

Duty of Care

Duty of Confidentiality

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Child abuse
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