Discuss the underlying principles related to the psychologists’ duty to document and maintain documentation related to their professional services. Describe the guidelines that determine what should be documented.
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer will include the following:
a. Reasons for documentation – facilitate provision of services later by other professionals
b. Allow for replication of research design and analysis
c. To meet institutional requirements
d. Ensure accuracy in billing and payments
e. Ensure compliance with law
f. Documentation benefits clients, and fulfills psychologists’ responsibility to society and specific organizations
g. Level of detail and adequacy of content determined by the information necessary to provide good care, assist collaborating professionals, ensure continuity of care, provide relevant supervision, for reimbursement, and to answer a complaint
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a. the counselor utilize diagnosis to conceptualize in order to get paid by third party payers b. the counselor not concern him/herself with diagnosis if practicing from an approach that does not conceptualize treatment this way. c. diagnose for requirements, then ignore diagnostic information and criteria in favor of a theoretical approach d. master diagnosis, understand the limitations of diagnosis, and learn to balance diagnosis with thoughtful case conceptualization
About __________ percent of Americans believe in a Higher Power
a. less than 25 b. 25 c. 50 d. 95
Meta-analyses tend to support the finding that there is
a. more improvement in behavioral than psychoanalytic treatment. b. more improvement in psychoanalytic than behavioral treatment. c. no differences in outcome between behavioral and psychoanalytic treatment.
The concept of sexual identity includes the following components except:
a) a sexual preference for members of another sex b) a sex role identity as both masculine or feminine c) a gender identity that is a secure sense of one’s maleness or femaleness d) a sex role identity as either masculine or feminine, depending on one’s gender