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Fulfilling Informed Consent Responsibilities
Kenneth S. Pope
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 126 details procedures for fulfilling informed consent responsibilities, avoiding misconceptions, keeping up with law, ethical and professional standards, and relevant research, ...
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Step 2: Telling Patients the Truth About Confidentiality’s Limits
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 5 walks therapists through Step 2, and covers two conversations in which therapists must explain confidentiality and its limits, and how therapists are ethically required to conduct ...
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Considerations in Closing a Private Practice
Janet T. Thomas and Steven Walfish
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
The prospect of closing a practice can be daunting. It is a task eventually faced by nearly all psychologists, counselors, family therapists, and social workers who provide psychotherapy, ...
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Forensic Context Testing
Martin Fisher, Sarah Brown, Georgia Barnett, and Helen Wakeling
in The ITC International Handbook of Testing and Assessment
The forensic context is a particularly important aspect to consider when using psychometrics within this setting. There are particular ethical challenges for test users given the power ...
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I’m the Boss. Who Needs Policies and Procedures?
Jeffrey E. Barnett and Jeffrey Zimmerman
in If You Build It They Will Come: And Other Myths of Private Practice in the Mental Health Professions
This chapter illustrates how every mental health practice needs a number of key policies and procedures in place from the outset. Risks to the success of the practice financially as well as ...
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Step 3: Obtaining Truly Informed Consent Before Disclosing Confidential Information Voluntarily
Mary Alice Fisher
in The Ethics of Conditional Confidentiality: A Practice Model for Mental Health Professionals
Chapter 6 walks therapists through Step 3, and covers how to obtain truly informed consent before disclosing confidential information voluntarily. It emphasizes that ‘confidential’ is a ...
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Testamentary Capacity
Kirk Heilbrun, David DeMatteo, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, and Casey LaDuke
in Forensic Mental Health Assessment: A Casebook (2 ed.)
Chapter 11 discusses testamentary capacity. The issue of testamentary capacity arises when there is some question about whether an individual has sufficient ability to make or alter a valid ...
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Civil Competence Evaluations
Stephen J. Anderer
in Ziskin's Coping with Psychiatric and Psychological Testimony (6 ed.)
This chapter discusses mental health evaluations of civilcompetencies, and focuses on three frequentlyaddressed civil competencies: competence to manage personaland financial affairs ...
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Preparation for the Evaluation
Mark D. Cunningham
in Evaluation for Capital Sentencing
Chapter 4 outlines preparations to be made for the evaluation, including the sequence of sentencing phase preparations, informed consent, evaluator self-appraisal and disclosure, clarifying ...
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Fees and Financial Arrangements in Private Practice
Jeffrey E. Barnett
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
This chapter addresses the issue of fees for mental health professionals in private practice. Important issues discussed include the meaning of fees and money for practitioners and how to ...
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Ethics Guiding Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Walter Erich Penk, Dolores Little, and Nathan D. Ainspan
in Handbook of Psychosocial Interventions for Veterans and Service Members: A Guide for the Non-Military Mental Health Clinician
This chapter focuses on ethical standards for psychosocial rehabilitation. Rehabilitation criteria require health care providers not only to meet ethical standards when reducing symptoms ...
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Communication and Decision-Making with Parents and Seriously Ill Children about Phase 1 Research Trials
Melissa K. Cousino, Wynne E. Morrison, and Victoria A. Miller
in Ethics and Research with Children: A Case-Based Approach (2 ed.)
This chapter uses a case study to explore communication and decision-making with parents and seriously ill children about phase 1 research trials. The chapter begins with a case scenario ...
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Ethical Standards of Practice in Neuropsychology
Greg J. Lamberty and Nathaniel W. Nelson
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Neuropsychology
Chapter 7 explores some of the more commonly encountered ethical issues that may arise during neuropsychological evaluation, including informed consent, test and measurement selection, ...
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Applying the Duty to Protect and Warn
James L. Werth Jr. and Jennifer Stroup
in Psychologists' Desk Reference (3 ed.)
Chapter 114 considers the duty to protect and warn, including the APA ethics code, the case of Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, state laws and regulations, and informed ...
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Data Collection
David M. Corey and Mark Zelig
in Evaluations of Police Suitability and Fitness for Duty
This chapter describes the procedures commonly followed in suitability and fitness evaluations, with a particular focus on the collection of data from three sources routinely required for ...
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Ethical Considerations in Clinical Psychology
Robert A. DiTomasso, Stacey C. Cahn, Susan M. Panichelli-Mindel, and Roger K. McFillin
in Specialty Competencies in Clinical Psychology
Competent practice in clinical psychology requires an understanding of the ethical standards required of all psychologists, and proficiency in applying these principles. Given the ...
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Ethical Behavior and Competencies
Jay C. Thomas
in Specialty Competencies in Organizational and Business Consulting Psychology
Chapter 11 discusses ethical behavior and competencies in OBCs, including the APA Code of Ethics, beneficence and non-maleficence, fidelity, responsibility, integrity, justice, and respect, ...
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