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law and ethics midterm
california law and ethics
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Psychology
Post-Graduate
03/01/2017

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Term
law
Definition
Defines the minimum standards society will tolerate and is enforced by government
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ethics
Definition
Represents the ideal standards set and is enforced by professional associations
Term
regulation
Definition
Regulation of practice occurs in all 50 states.
State licensing laws establish the scope of practice of professionals and how these laws will be enforced
Term
values vs ethics
Definition
Values
Beliefs and attitudes that provide direction to everyday living
Ethics
Moral principles adopted by an individual or group to provide rules for right conduct
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mandatory ethics
Definition
providing informed consent
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aspirational ethics
Definition
The highest professional standards of conduct to which counselors can aspire
Related to positive ethics
Providing services pro bono for those in need
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Basic Moral Principles to Guide Decision Making
Definition
Autonomy:
Beneficence:
Non-maleficence:
Justice:
Fidelity:
Veracity:
Term
counter transference
Definition
Demonstrate inappropriate affect
Respond in highly defensive ways
Lose their objectivity because their own conflicts are triggered
Term
burnout
Definition
A state of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual depletion characterized by feelings of helplessness and hopelessness
Term
impairment
Definition
psychological depletion;Results in consistently functioning below acceptable practice standards
Term
values conflict
Definition
seek supervision and learn ways to effectively manage these differences.
Consider a referral only when you clearly lack the necessary skills to deal with the issues presented by the client.
Term
Role of Spiritual and Religious Values in Counseling
Definition
Religion and spirituality can be part of the client’s problem and can be part of the client’s solution.
Spirituality and religion are critical sources of strength for many clients.
(assessment and treatment process)
Term
rational suicide
Definition
When a person has decided — after going through a decision-making process and without coercion from others — to end his or her life because of extreme suffering involved with a terminal illness
Term
aid in dying
Definition
Providing a person with the means to die
Term
MFT
Definition
service performed with individuals, couples, or groups
productive social adjustments
Term
components of MFT
Definition
Work within scope of training/competence
Work with Children, families, couples, individuals, groups.
Treat and Diagnose
Term
AACC code of ethics
Definition
Christian counselors acknowledge that the first rule of professional-ministerial ethical conduct is: do no harm to those served.
Term
scope of competence
Definition
also defines or limits what the individual within the profession may do and is determined by one's education, training and experience.
Term
scope of practice
Definition
what the profession does, the limits it has and the functions that lawfully can be performed
Term
crisis
Definition
event or circumstance that prevents therapy from proceeding until the crisis is stabilized.
Term
questions to ask yourself in the event of a possible crisis
Definition
is the client dangerous to you? to self?dangerous to others? or ENDANGERED by others?
Term
Q.R.M.O.T.H
Definition
Q=Questions
R=Referrals/Resources
M=Mental Status Exam
O=Observations
T=Testing
H=History
S=Social Support
Term
Code Section 1024
Definition
Patient Dangerous to Self or Others 
Definition: There is no privilege…if the psychotherapist has reasonable cause to believe that the patient is in such mental or emotional condition as to be dangerous to him or herself or to the person or property of another and if disclosure of confidential information is necessary to prevent the threatened danger.”
Legally permitted, but not legally mandated to disclose
Term
preventative measures that break confidentiality
Definition
24 hour watch, 5150 initiation and clinical consultation with other health care providers in the event the client is in danger or a danger to others.
Term
initiation of 5150
Definition
when the client is a danger to self or others as a result of a mental disorder, taken for reevaluation and testing in an involuntary 72 hour hold
Term
assessing suicidality
Definition
T-thoughts
I-intent
P-plan
M-means
Term
S.A.L
Definition
specifics to the plan
availability- by which means can they carry out the plan
lethality- how likely will there be death by chosen method
Term
C.A.R.L
Definition
chronological factors
awareness of the lethality
rescue
lethality
Term
3 phases of domestic violence
Definition
tension -> explosion-> honeymoon
Term
domestic violence
Definition
We do not report
We create a safety plan
Do not see clients as a couple
Can keep secrets
Term
Reasonable suspicion
Definition
means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to suspect child abuse or neglect
Term
permissible reporting
Definition
mental suffering of a child, or circumstances in which a child's emotional wellbeing is endangered
Term
child abuse-mandated
Definition
willful harm
neglect
physical
sexual
consensual sex IF:
one child is 14 and the other is younger then 14, adult is more than 10 years older who's 14 or 15, or one child is 13 and the other younger and more immature, also if the child is 15 or 16 and the adult is 21 and over
Term
6 types of elder abuse
Definition
Physical, includes Sexual
Abduction
Abandonment
Isolation
Financial
Neglect
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