Who else might be consenting for child's treatment
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Other legal guardian - like grandma
If guardian is not legal guardian, grandma (or whoever) can sign caregivers
affidavit
If child in foster care, child's lawyer must consent, unless court has issued
minute order for social worker or foster parent to consent
Legal or ethical: advertising
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, both, don't engage in false or misleading advertising
Insurance fraud examples
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- making up diagnosis
- increasing severity of diagnosis (instead of depression unspecified, major
depressive, etc)
- treating couple but billing individually
- billing for missed appt but not sharing it was missed
- if a different provider signs off on insurance claims
- if you waive copayment must tell insurance you've waived it
- charging a higher fee because client has insurance
Preventative means for danger to self
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- safety plans
- increasing contact between sessions
- activating client support system
- referral to Dr or Psychiatrist
- ALWAYS consult about actively suicidal clients, and document in your
records
if client is older than 18 and reports abuse what does therapist do
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, maintain confidentiality unless current risk of perpetrator abusing other
minors
With the hopes of publishing a research article in a professional journal, a therapist
submits an abstract proposing a study of panic
disorders as they have occurred in her practice. What should the therapist do FIRST?
A. Select a matched control group.
B. Obtain informed consent from subjects.
C. Introduce the experimental intervention.
D. Pretest data to establish a baseline.
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B
what things must therapist do when starting telehealth
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- assesss if client is appropriate for telehealth
- obtain consent (document, either written or verbal)
- consent must include risk and limitations of telehealth
- provide license # and type of license
- document efforts to get contact info of relevant resources including
emergency services where client is
What is self-determination/patient autonomy
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, An ethical issue, as therapists, we want to support our clients self-
determination and agency to make decisions about their lives
On the test be on the lookout for questions that
- Have therapist steering client in specific direction
- Have therapist determining client decisions
This can be overridden for SAFETY
Treatment goals - client decides what they want to work on
Client decides if yhey want treatment to end, etc
If abuse is happening out of state, where do you file
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in CA because its where you hold a license
If DV between elder and younger than 65
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must report elder abuse
legal requirements for informed consent
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Give this one a try later!
Other legal guardian - like grandma
If guardian is not legal guardian, grandma (or whoever) can sign caregivers
affidavit
If child in foster care, child's lawyer must consent, unless court has issued
minute order for social worker or foster parent to consent
Legal or ethical: advertising
Give this one a try later!
, both, don't engage in false or misleading advertising
Insurance fraud examples
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- making up diagnosis
- increasing severity of diagnosis (instead of depression unspecified, major
depressive, etc)
- treating couple but billing individually
- billing for missed appt but not sharing it was missed
- if a different provider signs off on insurance claims
- if you waive copayment must tell insurance you've waived it
- charging a higher fee because client has insurance
Preventative means for danger to self
Give this one a try later!
- safety plans
- increasing contact between sessions
- activating client support system
- referral to Dr or Psychiatrist
- ALWAYS consult about actively suicidal clients, and document in your
records
if client is older than 18 and reports abuse what does therapist do
Give this one a try later!
, maintain confidentiality unless current risk of perpetrator abusing other
minors
With the hopes of publishing a research article in a professional journal, a therapist
submits an abstract proposing a study of panic
disorders as they have occurred in her practice. What should the therapist do FIRST?
A. Select a matched control group.
B. Obtain informed consent from subjects.
C. Introduce the experimental intervention.
D. Pretest data to establish a baseline.
Give this one a try later!
B
what things must therapist do when starting telehealth
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- assesss if client is appropriate for telehealth
- obtain consent (document, either written or verbal)
- consent must include risk and limitations of telehealth
- provide license # and type of license
- document efforts to get contact info of relevant resources including
emergency services where client is
What is self-determination/patient autonomy
Give this one a try later!
, An ethical issue, as therapists, we want to support our clients self-
determination and agency to make decisions about their lives
On the test be on the lookout for questions that
- Have therapist steering client in specific direction
- Have therapist determining client decisions
This can be overridden for SAFETY
Treatment goals - client decides what they want to work on
Client decides if yhey want treatment to end, etc
If abuse is happening out of state, where do you file
Give this one a try later!
in CA because its where you hold a license
If DV between elder and younger than 65
Give this one a try later!
must report elder abuse
legal requirements for informed consent
Give this one a try later!
