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The failure of the psychologist to take the clinically indicated and ethically appropriate steps to terminate a professional relationship |
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Pertains to electronic consultation between mental health providers and consumers. |
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Involves either actions taken by a therapist or a failure to take certain precautions. |
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A client possessing the ability to make rational decisions. |
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Clients needing to demonstrate that a professional’s breach of duty was the direct cause of the injury they suffered. |
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Exists when a therapist implicitly or explicitly agrees to provide mental health services. |
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| The ongoing process of informing clients about their therapy for the purpose of helping them make autonomous decisions pertaining to it. The aim is for clients to become involved, educated, and willing participants in their therapy. |
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Informed consent document |
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Providing clients with a written statement pertaining to many aspects of their therapy that is generally discussed and signed by both therapist and client. |
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Clients being harmed in some way by the therapeutic process. |
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Legal aspects of informed consent |
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Three elements that are basic to the legal definition of informed consent are: capacity, comprehension of information, and voluntariness. |
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| Literally meaning “bad practice,” a legal concept that involves negligence that results in injury or loss to a client. Malpractice involves the failure to render professional services or to exercise the degree of skill that is ordinarily expected of other professionals in a similar situation. |
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Also known as psychotherapy notes, are not synonymous with progress notes; process notes deal with client reactions such as transference and the therapist’s subjective impressions of a client |
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Results from unjustified departure from usual practice or from failing to exercise due care in fulfilling one’s responsibilities. |
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A means of documenting aspects of a client’s treatment and are kept in a client’s clinical record |
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The practice of focusing on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of problems that may injure clients, lead to filing of an ethics complaint, or lead to a malpractice action. |
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Standards that are commonly accepted by the profession and are considered as the acceptable standard of practice in the community. |
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The ethically and clinically appropriate process by which a professional relationship is ended |
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