Exam

Question 1

What are the three elements of an Evidence-Based model?

Answer 1

1. Current best evidence
2. Clinical expertise
3. Patient values, preferences, and characteristics

Question 2

What is the central value of the NHMRC guidelines for ethical research in aboriginal and Torres straight islander health research?

Answer 2

Spirit and Integrity

Question 3

What are the six values of the NHMRC guidelines for ethical research in aboriginal and Torres straight islander health research?

Answer 3

1. Sprit and Integrity
2. Responsibility
3. Reciprocity
4. Respect
5. Equity
6. Cultural Continuity

Question 4

What does Spirit and Integrity refer to?

Answer 4

Ongoing connection between past, present and future generations, and the respectful and honourable behaviours that hold the Indigenous Cultures together.

Question 5

How many ethical principles are there in the general NHMRC guidelines for ethical research?

Answer 5

Four

Question 6

What are the ethical principles outlined in the NHMRC guidelines for ethical research?

Answer 6

1. Research merit and integrity
2. Justice
3. Beneficence
4. Respect

Question 7

Which of the NHMRC guidelines outlines the participants right to informed consent?

Answer 7

Respect

Question 8

Which of the NHMRC guidelines outlines the need for fair treatment of participants and fair distribution of research benefits and burdens?

Answer 8

Justice

Question 9

Which of the NHMRC guidelines states that research is not valid unless it is run with honesty and value?

Answer 9

Research merit and integrity

Question 10

Which of the NHMRC guidelines discusses the need for risks and gains to be weighed up?

Answer 10

Beneficence

Question 11

How many principles does the APS put forward for ethical practice?

Answer 11

Three

Question 12

What are the principles outlines by the APS for ethical practice?

Answer 12

1. Respect for the dignity and rights of people and peoples
2. Propriety
3. Integrity

Question 13

Respect for the dignity and rights of people and peoples involves…

Answer 13

• Acknowledge legal and moral rights
• Recognise importance of privacy and confidentiality
• High regard for diversity and uniqueness
• Fair treatment without discrimination or favouritism

Question 14

Propriety involves…

Answer 14

• Practising within the limits of competence
• Continue to develop professional knowledge though professional development and being aware of effects of own physical and mental health on competence
• Provide services that are beneficial to people and do not harm them
• Putting welfare of clients and the public and the standing of the profession above their own self-interest

Question 15

Integrity involves…

Answer 15

• Recognise the position of trust requires honesty and objectivity
• Commitment to client’s, profession’s and colleague’s best interests
• Identify and avoid potential conflicts of interests
• Aware of own biases and limits to maintain proper boundaries with the client

Question 16

What are the steps in the APS ethical decision making model?

Answer 16

1. Recognise an ethical dilemma
2. Clarify the issue
3. Generate options
4. Choose and implement most preferred option
5. Reflect and review process

Question 17

Outline two findings that support addiction as a brain disease

Answer 17

1. Insula cortex in stroke patients
2. The Dopamine hypothesis and the role of genetics
3. Prefrontal dysfunction and premorbid risk in drug naive children

Question 18

What is the mechanism proposed to underlie exposure therapy?

Answer 18

Fear extinction learning

Question 19

What mechanism underlies treatment of intrusive memories?

Answer 19

Role of encoding, consolidation, and retrieval on the memory process - places to disrupt this process