CA Psych Juris flashcards
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- Informed consent
- An understandable decision process in which a person receives relevant information about a proposed service and its meaningful choices and limits.
- Confidentiality
- The professional responsibility to protect information obtained through services while recognizing applicable authorized disclosures and legally defined exceptions.
- Authorization
- Permission for a defined use or disclosure whose recipient, purpose, scope, and continued validity must be evaluated before relying on it.
- Legal representative
- A person whose actual legally established authority may permit specified decisions or access for someone else, subject to the scope of that authority.
- De-identification
- Reducing information that could identify a person, with attention to combinations of contextual facts rather than removal of a name alone.
- Reasonable suspicion
- A legally relevant reporting threshold that requires appropriate factual concern rather than proof of abuse to the standard used in a criminal trial.
- Mandated reporter
- A person designated by applicable law to report specified suspected harm when the statute's factual and professional conditions are met.
- Duty to protect
- A protective obligation evaluated under the governing law and actual threat circumstances, rather than a general permission to disclose every clinical detail.
- Risk formulation
- An individualized synthesis of relevant history, current presentation, behavior, supports, and circumstances that informs safety planning and professional judgment.
- Protective disclosure
- A disclosure with an applicable legal or ethical basis directed toward a defined safety purpose and limited to relevant information.
- Scope of practice
- The activities legally permitted under the provider's actual professional authorization, distinguished from the provider's competence in a particular activity.
- Professional competence
- The relevant knowledge, skills, and preparation needed to provide a specific professional service responsibly for the particular question and population.
- Clinical supervision
- Meaningful professional oversight involving review, guidance, and evaluation rather than merely signing administrative forms or lending a credential.
- Conflict of interest
- A competing relationship, incentive, or responsibility that may impair or appear to impair objective professional judgment or client protection.
- Professional impairment
- A condition affecting the ability to perform professional work competently that requires assessment and appropriate protective changes rather than concealment.
- Multiple relationship
- A situation involving more than one role with a client or connected person that requires evaluation of potential conflict, exploitation, and harm.
- Exploitation
- Using a professional power imbalance or a person's vulnerability for the clinician's advantage instead of maintaining appropriate protection of the person served.
- Assent
- Developmentally appropriate participation and affirmative agreement sought from a person whose legal consent arrangement also requires attention to another authorized decision-maker.
- Termination
- The planned ending of professional services with attention to the clinical rationale, foreseeable effects, safety, and reasonable continuity or referral needs.
- Role clarification
- Explicit explanation of who receives a service, the professional purpose, responsibilities, information recipients, and limits before incompatible expectations create conflict.
- Psychotherapist-patient privilege
- A protection concerning disclosure of confidential therapeutic communications in legal proceedings, evaluated under the applicable rules about holders, claims, and exceptions.
- Test data
- Information obtained about an individual through assessment that must be distinguished from secure instruments and answer keys when considering access and disclosure.
- Standardized administration
- Use of the instrument's specified procedures, with important departures identified because they may affect the meaning and comparability of resulting scores.
- Collateral information
- Relevant information supplied by sources other than the person being evaluated, whose origin and limitations should be accurately identified in professional reasoning.
- Legal hold
- An applicable preservation requirement that can prevent routine destruction of records even when a practice's ordinary retention schedule would otherwise permit disposal.