Lecture 10

Question 1

How many members does the APS have?

Answer 1

22000

Question 2

How many colleges does the APS have?

Answer 2

9

Question 3

How many interest groups does the APS have?

Answer 3

48

Question 4

What does the Australin Psychology Accreditation Council do?

Answer 4

Accredits psych courses

Question 5

What does the Psychology board of australia do?

Answer 5

Regulates profession.

Question 6

What does AHPRA do?

Answer 6

– Implements policies and decisions of the PsyBA

– Administration for all 14 registered health professions

Question 7

What are the three codes of conduct?

Answer 7

National Practice Standards for the Mental
Health Workforce
• APS code of ethical conduct (Also
Registration Board)

Question 8

What standards are specific to psychologists?

Answer 8

• Code of Ethics
• Ethical and Practice Guidelines and
• Procedures

Question 9

What is standard one?

Answer 9

: Rights and responsibilities,

safety and privacy

Question 10

What do you do if the client says they are going to kill their brother?

Answer 10

Higher ethic. Tell them that if their life is in danger, and or someone elses life is, they are bound by mental health act

Question 11

What is standard 2?

Answer 11

St’nd’d 2: Consumer and carer participation

About clients and consumers being actively engaged and having a voice.

Question 12

What is standard 3?

Answer 12

Awareness of diversity

Question 13

What is standard 4?

Answer 13

Mental health problems and mental health disorders- know what youre talking about

Question 14

What is standard 5?

Answer 14

Promotion and prevention.

When it comes to mental health, prevention is the most important part.

Question 15

What is standard 6

Answer 15

Early detection and intervention

Question 16

What is standard 7

Answer 16

Assessment, treatment, relapse prevention and support.

Use appropriate methods.

Question 17

What is standard 8?

Answer 17

Integration and partnership

Use all different types of services so that they can access them all.

Question 18

What is standard 9?

Answer 18

• Standard 9: Service planning,
development and management

When putting system together, play your part.

Question 19

What is standard 10?

Answer 19

Documentation and information systems

Keep good notes!

Question 20

What is standard 11?

Answer 20

Evaluation and research

Become involved with research

Question 21

When are you bound by the APS?

Answer 21

As soon as you jopin the APS, or register

Question 22

What is conduct?

Answer 22

An act or an omission. 24/7

Question 23

What is multiple relationships?

Answer 23

occur when a
psychologist, rendering a psychological
service to a client, also is or has been:
• (a) in a non-professional relationship with
the same client;
• (b) in a different professional relationship
with the same client;
• (c) in a non-professional relationship with an
associated party; or
• (d) a recipient of a service provided by the
same client.

Question 24

What do you do if you are rural?

Answer 24

Set up very clear boundaries, and get client to repeat back to you.

Question 25

APS code of ethics general principles

Answer 25

``` Justice Respect Informed consent Privacy Confidentiality Disclosure Release of information to clients Collection of client information from associated parties. ```

Question 26

What is informed consent?

Answer 26

• Fully inform clients regarding psychological services they intend to provide • Use plain language • Provides practical guidelines for how a psychologist can ensure consent is informed • Guidelines for when clients do not have the capacity to consent

Question 27

When do you have mandatory reporting?

Answer 27

Child abuse Any other kind of elder abuse You call facs You must take action on someone in danger

Question 28

When you consult someone, how do you keep disclosure

Answer 28

• When consulting colleagues or in professional supervision or training BUT MUST conceal identity of client or get consent. Recipients of knowledge must agree to confidentiality

Question 29

How long must you keep records until?

Answer 29

7 years, but if under 18 keep till 25. | Clients can amend inaccurate records.

Question 30

When taking notes, would should you do about reasonable forseeability?

Answer 30

Make thorough notes, write why you have said something.

Question 31

When you have multiple clients, what should you do?

Answer 31

(a) explain to each client the limits to confidentiality in advance; • (b) give clients an opportunity to consider the limitations of the situation; • (c) obtain clients’ explicit acceptance of these limitations; and • (d) ensure as far as possible, that no client is coerced to accept these limitations.

Question 32

Why would you terminate services?

Answer 32

• Client no longer benefiting from services • Well-being of client is paramount • Reasonable arrangements for the continuity of service provision when no longer able to deliver the psychological service • When client needs greater expertise than you can provide

Question 33

What are the important things to remember when doing psychological assessment?

Answer 33

``` • Use quality instruments/measures • Understand and make clear to clients the limitations of the measures/techniques • Score and report accurately • Do not compromise tests or make public ```

Question 34

If you want to have a sexual relationship, when can you?

Answer 34

• (c) who wish to engage in sexual activity with former clients after a period of two years from the termination of the service, first explore with a senior psychologist the possibility that the former client may be vulnerable and at risk of exploitation, and encourage the former client to seek independent counselling on the matter; and • (d) do not accept as a client a person with whom they have engaged in sexual activity Never if you are a freudian psychologist

Question 35

What is the relevant legislation?

Answer 35

NSW mental health act

Question 36

Who does the act apply to?

Answer 36

1. are admitted to a mental health facility voluntarily (called voluntary patients); 2. are admitted to or detained in a mental health facility against their wishes (called involuntary patients); 3. are required to receive treatment in the community.

Question 37

What are the categories of unvoluntary patients?

Answer 37

Involuntary Forensic Community treatment order

Question 38

Whats an involuntary patient?

Answer 38

admitted to or detained in hospital against their wishes, generally on the advice of a certified Medical/Mental Health Practitioner

Question 39

What is a forensic patient

Answer 39

patient is admitted to or detained in hospital against their wishes, having committed an offence and being currently mentally ill

Question 40

What is a community treatment order

Answer 40

• Is generally ordered when (a) the person is currently mentally ill, or (b) the person is not currently mentally ill, but is judged by a suitably qualified practitioner to be likely to become mentally ill within 3 months, and (c) a CTO is judged to be the least restrictive alternative for treatment.

Question 41

What criteria must be met for formal admission to occur?

Answer 41

The person meets criteria for being formally admitted as either: • A Mentally Ill Person • A Mentally Disordered Person

Question 42

What is a mentally ill person?

Answer 42

• A Mentally Ill person • Criteria: • Has a mental illness; AND • Is at risk of serious harm to self and others. This includes •physical harm •harm to reputation •harm to relationships •harm to finances •self-neglect; AND Has a continuing condition, including any likely deterioration is taken into account; AND • No other care of a less restrictive kind is available

Question 43

What is the definition of mental illness?

Answer 43

• A condition that seriously impairs, either temporarily or permanently, the mental functioning of a person and is characterized by the presence of any one or more of the following symptoms or signs: ``` • Delusions • Hallucinations • Serious disorder of thought form • Severe disturbance of mood • Sustained or repeated irrational behaviour indicating that the person is having delusions or hallucinations. ```

Question 44

What is a mentally disordered person?

Answer 44

A Mentally Disordered Person • Criteria: • Displaying irrational behaviour; AND • Significant physical risk to self or others; AND • No other care of a less restrictive kind is available

Question 45

What is the exclusion for formal admissions?

Answer 45

• A person cannot be regarded as “Mentally Ill” or “Mentally Disordered” for the purpose of the Act merely because of the presence or lack of: • Religious beliefs or philosophy; • Sexual preference/orientation Past or current involvement in: • Sexual promiscuity; • Immoral or illegal conduct; • Or because the person • Has a developmental disability; • Takes or has taken alcohol or any other drug; • Engages in anti-social behaviour

Question 46

When a person is formally detained, how long can they be detained for?

Answer 46

up to 3 days

Question 47

What are the two key differences between 1990 and 2007

Answer 47

Allowing Ambulance drivers to formally admit patients; • Collapsing two types of Community Treatment Orders into a single category

Question 48

Who does mandatory reporting go to?

Answer 48

PBA

Question 49

What is notifiable conduct?

Answer 49

• placed the public at risk of substantial harm in the practitioner’s practice of the profession because the practitioner has an impairment; or • placed the public at risk of harm because the practitioner has practised the profession in a way that constitutes a significant departure from accepted professional standards.