CA Psych Juris key terms

An understandable decision process in which a person receives relevant information about a proposed service and its meaningful choices and limits.

The professional responsibility to protect information obtained through services while recognizing applicable authorized disclosures and legally defined exceptions.

Permission for a defined use or disclosure whose recipient, purpose, scope, and continued validity must be evaluated before relying on it.

A person whose actual legally established authority may permit specified decisions or access for someone else, subject to the scope of that authority.

Reducing information that could identify a person, with attention to combinations of contextual facts rather than removal of a name alone.

A legally relevant reporting threshold that requires appropriate factual concern rather than proof of abuse to the standard used in a criminal trial.

A person designated by applicable law to report specified suspected harm when the statute's factual and professional conditions are met.

A protective obligation evaluated under the governing law and actual threat circumstances, rather than a general permission to disclose every clinical detail.

An individualized synthesis of relevant history, current presentation, behavior, supports, and circumstances that informs safety planning and professional judgment.

A disclosure with an applicable legal or ethical basis directed toward a defined safety purpose and limited to relevant information.

The activities legally permitted under the provider's actual professional authorization, distinguished from the provider's competence in a particular activity.

The relevant knowledge, skills, and preparation needed to provide a specific professional service responsibly for the particular question and population.

Meaningful professional oversight involving review, guidance, and evaluation rather than merely signing administrative forms or lending a credential.

A competing relationship, incentive, or responsibility that may impair or appear to impair objective professional judgment or client protection.

A condition affecting the ability to perform professional work competently that requires assessment and appropriate protective changes rather than concealment.

A situation involving more than one role with a client or connected person that requires evaluation of potential conflict, exploitation, and harm.

Using a professional power imbalance or a person's vulnerability for the clinician's advantage instead of maintaining appropriate protection of the person served.

Developmentally appropriate participation and affirmative agreement sought from a person whose legal consent arrangement also requires attention to another authorized decision-maker.

The planned ending of professional services with attention to the clinical rationale, foreseeable effects, safety, and reasonable continuity or referral needs.

Explicit explanation of who receives a service, the professional purpose, responsibilities, information recipients, and limits before incompatible expectations create conflict.

A protection concerning disclosure of confidential therapeutic communications in legal proceedings, evaluated under the applicable rules about holders, claims, and exceptions.

Information obtained about an individual through assessment that must be distinguished from secure instruments and answer keys when considering access and disclosure.

Use of the instrument's specified procedures, with important departures identified because they may affect the meaning and comparability of resulting scores.

Relevant information supplied by sources other than the person being evaluated, whose origin and limitations should be accurately identified in professional reasoning.

An applicable preservation requirement that can prevent routine destruction of records even when a practice's ordinary retention schedule would otherwise permit disposal.