Midterm 1 Flashcards
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Motivation for helping
– Situational factors affect broad range of helping (e.g., role models, time pressure, number of available others to provide help, appearance of victim, location) – Broad range of helping behaviors are associated with dispositional factors: – empathy – advanced moral reasoning – perspective taking – compassionate love for others – It feels good to reduce someone else’s distress!
What are some healthy motivations for entering helping professions?
- altruism; selfless concern for well-being of others
- consistent with values
- personal experiences with therapy
- inspired by clients
- colleagues who are caring
- desire social change
What are NOT so-healthy motivations?
- unresolved personal issues
- seeking relationships due to own needs
- desire to save others to enhance self-esteem
What are some characteristics of effective helpers?
- empathic
- nonjudemental/accepting
- warm
- genuine
- sensitive
- flexible
- capable
- confident
what is the research of characteristics of effective helpers based on?
Research based on:
- Effective helpers identified by co-workers.
- 22 characteristics identified through literature and consultation with counselor educators. Experts in counselor education rank ordered in terms of importance.
- Personality test and measure of family of origin functioning for counselor trainees; supervisor ratings of trainees based on practicum.
What are some potential harmful therapies?
- attachment therapy: used to treat children with histories of trauma and abuse, challenging behaviors, and difficulty attaching to primary caregivers
- Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE)
- scared straight
- recovered memory techniques
- critical incident stress debriefing
How do we know we are helping?
- ethical principles
- theoretically grounded
- evidence-based: experimentally validated, randomized trials, replication, progress monitoring
what are the components of empathy?
- perspective-taking
- non-judgemental
- recognizing emotion in others
- communicating
empathy and compassion
• Empathy can lead to negative emotions
(vicarious pain)
• Compassion: “feeling concern for another’s
suffering and desiring to enhance that individual’s
welfare
empathy in helping relations
-Affective Sharing :
-Be present in the moment
-Pay attention to the client’s tone, body language, words
-Self-Other Awareness :
-Recognize your self as separate from the client
-Be aware of vicarious pain
-Recognize that your reactions are not the same as your client
Cognitive Flexibility and Emotion Regulation:
– Be able to turn on and off your receptiveness to others
experiences
cultivating compassion
loving-kindess meditation
- focus on
1. self
2. close person
3. neutral person
4. challenging person
what are ethics?
- system of moral principles
- professional code of behavior
When is there ethical dilemma?
conflict among:
- ethical principles
- professional code of behavior
- laws
- roles
- values
what are the ethical principles for psychologists?
- Beneficence and Nonmaleficence
- Justice
- Respect for People’s rights and dignity
- Fidelity and responsibility
- Integrity
beneficence and nonmalefience
- work benefits others
- do no harm
- apples to humans and animals in treatment and research
- aware of how physical and mental health might impact clients
fidelity and responsibilty
- trust and accountability
- responsibilites in society and communities where they work
- concern about the ethical behavior of colleagues
integrity
- promote accuracy and honest
- do not lie or steal
- keep promises
- avoid deception
justice
- fairness in access and quality
- recgonize and address potential biases
- boundaries of competence and limitations of expertise
what does the code of conduct cover?
- covers relationships with clients, students, and payers
- dictates the ethics of research as well as the treatment of animals
confidentiality
maintaining information in a way that protects it from disclosure to others
why is it important to maintain confidentiality
HIPPA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
what are the limits to confidentiality?
- supervision
- child abuse:psychologist must have only logical reason to suspect that abuse has occured
- elder or dependent adult abuse:physical,sexual, or financial
- self harm: suicidality or behavior that may be lethal
- threats of significant harm toward an identified person -must be severe if not potentially lethal
Informed consent
-“nature and anticipated course of therapy, fees, involvement of third parties and limits of confidentiality and provide sufficient opportunity for the client to ask questions and receive answers”
-therapy procedures, risks, benefits
-client rights, responsibilities
-limits of confidentiality
make sure to discuss at start of helping relationship and again whenever needed
multiple relationships
occurs when a psychologist is in a professional role with a person and:
-same time is in another role with the same person
-same time is in a relationship with a person associated with or related to the person with whom psychologist has the professional relationship
-promises to enter into another relationship in the future with the person or person associated with or related to the person
AVOID MULTIPLE RELATIONSHIPS WHEN POSSIBLE