Micellaneous/Class Notes Flashcards
Define: Duty to Protect
(Week 11 Class notes)
Psychologist’s duty to exercise reasonable care to protect the potential victims of his/her client’s violent behaviour
WHEN: client has been reasonably assess to pose a serious threat of violence to a reasonably identifiable victim AND when psychologists’s action/inaction is clearly related to the occurrence of the violent act
Case laws:
Wenden vs Trikha
Tarasoff v Regents
Kines v Lychuk
Define: Duty to Report
Legal Liabilities with Duty to report
Week 11 Class notes
Duty to report abuse under:
Protection of Persons in Care Act and
Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act
Legal Liabilities:
1) Failure to foresee the threat
2) Failure to establish a reasonable treatment plan to address threat
3) Failure to properly implement the safety plan
Does Duty to Protect apply to clients who are suicidal
Week 11 Class notes
No - suicide a personal right;
legal requirement to inform guardians if child is suicidal
-if someone will harm others in act of suicide (e.g. jump in to traffic)
Define: Duty to Care
(Week 11 Class notes)
Legal obligation to adhere to a standard of reasonable care when performing services that could harm others (like counselling)
Duty to report, risk assessment criteria:
Week 11 Class notes
- Clear risk to an identifiable person/group of persons
2 . Risk of serious bodily harm/death
- Imminent danger
What percentage of couples seeking help report violence?
By which session should you have done a family violence screening/safety planning session with each member in the family system?
50-60%
By the 3rd session
**Use a government safety plan, do not use your own
EAP: When a client has completed sessions covered by EAP service, but requires more serives - what are three options are available to you?
Week 12 Notes
1) Terminate and refer
2) See client for free - this may be a problem given that EAP technically owns the client
3) Charge my own rate - potential ethical complications
*Ideally do all EAP work pro-bono to
What steps should you take if you are subpoenaed?
Week 12 Notes
- Do not add anything else to original file
- Create a brand new file and document EVERYTHING after subpoena
- Seek professional and legal consultation
- Verify accuracy/authenticity of subpoena (phone the subpoena number)
In suicide - which two factors best determine a practitioners liability?
Week 11 quiz
Did you provide REASONALBE CARE?
Was the FORESEABILITY of suicide?
Stewart vs Noone Case (Truscott and Cook article)
When a concern arises that a client may pose a threat to others, an ethical conflict arises between which two obligations
Week 11 quiz
Psychologist’s obligation to respect AUTONOMY of client and to protect the FORSEEABLE VICTIMS of the client’s violent actions
Adult clients should be presume competent to make decisions about releasing or withholding personal information about them unless..
Week 11 quiz
There is a FORMAL ORDER in place appointing a guardian
If a client undergoes a psychological assessment, the client is entitled to…
Week 11 quiz
the RESULTS and the INTERPRETATIONS of the test
not the test protocol - this is classified
What are the consequences of not reporting child abuse for a psychologist?
Week 12 notes
Fined
Jailed for 3 months
Reported to association
What does the EPPP stand for?
p. 829
The Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology
How should you document client change in session notes?
Week 8 notes
Record:
- What you did you inquire about change and to promote change
- How the client responded
- Follow up plans to promote and reinforce change
* Also include consultation
