ABPP Counseling Psychology flashcards
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- Scientist-practitioner model
- Training model (Boulder) integrating science and practice, in which psychologists are expected to consume and produce research and apply it to clinical work.
- Holland's RIASEC
- Vocational typology matching six personality types-Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional-to work environments to predict satisfaction and fit.
- Super's life-span theory
- Career development theory describing growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and decline stages, with self-concept implemented through work roles across the life space.
- Multicultural counseling competencies
- Tripartite framework of counselor awareness of own assumptions, knowledge of client's worldview, and culturally appropriate intervention strategies (Sue et al., 1992).
- Social justice advocacy
- Counseling competency addressing systemic barriers via client empowerment, community collaboration, and public policy action across micro, meso, and macro levels.
- Evidence-based practice
- APA (2006) integration of best research evidence, clinical expertise, and client characteristics, culture, and preferences in psychological service delivery.
- Universal prevention
- Interventions delivered to entire populations regardless of risk, such as school-wide social-emotional curricula, aiming to reduce incidence of disorder.
- Selective prevention
- Interventions targeting individuals or groups at elevated risk for a disorder, such as children of depressed parents, before symptoms emerge.
- Indicated prevention
- Interventions for individuals showing early signs or subthreshold symptoms of a disorder, aiming to prevent progression to full diagnostic criteria.
- Tuckman's group stages
- Sequential model of group development: forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning; leaders adapt structure and interventions to each stage.
- Person-environment fit
- Counseling psychology concept that adjustment and satisfaction depend on congruence between individual characteristics and contextual demands and resources.
- Strengths-based assessment
- Approach emphasizing client competencies, resources, and protective factors alongside problems, consistent with counseling psychology's developmental and preventive orientation.
- Group cohesion
- Members' sense of belonging, acceptance, and attraction to the group; a therapeutic factor associated with disclosure, attendance, and outcome in group counseling.
- Vocational identity
- Self-constructed sense of clarity and stability regarding career interests, values, and goals, shaped by exploration and commitment processes.
- Counseling psychology identity
- Specialty defined by strengths-based, developmental, contextual, and preventive practice across the lifespan, with historical roots in vocational and educational guidance.
- Career construction theory
- Savickas's elaboration of Super's theory using narrative identity, adaptability, and life themes to explain how individuals build careers.
- APA Ethical Principles
- Five aspirational ideals: Beneficence and Nonmaleficence, Fidelity and Responsibility, Integrity, Justice, and Respect for People's Rights and Dignity (APA, 2017).
- Ethical Standards
- Enforceable rules in the APA Ethics Code (2017) that specify required conduct across areas such as competence, privacy, and advertising.
- Informed consent
- Ongoing process ensuring clients voluntarily agree to services with adequate information about procedures, risks, benefits, alternatives, and confidentiality limits.
- Confidentiality limits
- Legal and ethical exceptions including danger to self or others, mandated abuse reporting, court orders, and client waiver of privilege.
- Tarasoff duty
- Duty to protect identifiable third parties from a client's serious threat of violence, typically by warning, protecting, or notifying authorities per state law.
- Multiple relationships
- When a psychologist occupies another role with a client, relative, or someone closely associated; not inherently unethical but prohibited when it risks harm or exploitation.
- Boundary crossing
- A departure from customary professional practice that may be benign and contextually appropriate, such as attending a client's community event, without exploitation.
- Boundary violation
- A harmful departure from professional boundaries that exploits or damages the client, such as sexual contact or financial exploitation.
- Competence
- Ethical requirement to practice only within boundaries of training and experience and to obtain consultation, supervision, or referral when indicated (APA Standard 2.01).
- HIPAA Privacy Rule
- Federal regulation protecting individually identifiable health information held by covered entities, permitting disclosures for treatment, payment, and operations with safeguards.
- Record retention
- Ethical and legal obligation to maintain and retain client records for periods set by law, institutional policy, and APA Standard 6.01.
- Kitchener's critical-evaluative model
- Ethical decision-making framework applying intuition, critical evaluation via ethical rules and principles, and consultation to resolve dilemmas.
- Ethical decision-making model
- Systematic process for resolving dilemmas: identify the problem, consult codes and laws, weigh principles, consult others, choose and evaluate an action.
- Assent
- Agreement to participate by a minor or person with limited capacity, obtained in addition to guardian permission and tailored to developmental understanding.
- Mandated reporting
- Legal requirement for psychologists to report suspected child abuse, elder abuse, or dependent adult abuse to designated authorities, overriding confidentiality.
- Test security
- Ethical obligation (APA Standard 9.11) to protect the integrity of psychological tests by controlling access to materials and preventing disclosure of secure items.