METHODS
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
guidelines
Regulatory body that monitors practitioner psychologists
CHARACTER
Credible character references from those who know them for 3 yrs to give idea of character
traits suitable for role
Whether criminal cautions / convictions affect suitability to practise
HEALTH
General health every 2 yrs
Health issues likely to affect ability to practise safely
Health impairs ability to practise = stop work + declare it
Standards of :
PROFICIENCY
Professional autonomy + accountability
Formulation + delivery of plans and strategies for meeting health + social care needs
CONDUCT, PERFORMANCE and ETHICS
List of 14 guidelines :
- Maintain confidentiality with service users
- Only act within limits of own knowledge + skills, refer to others where necessary
Continuing PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Take part in + document regular training to develop own practise
Training events, evidence of how they’ve changed their practise and evaluation of
effectiveness of this
To keep up to date with current trends in clinical practice
EDUCATION and TRAINING
Set of minimum levels of qualifications specified b4 registering in health & care professions
Evidence Master’s degree with BPS qualification in area of practise working on.
Doctorate degree required for some
Training courses: meet required standards for proficiency expected for their area of practice
, For PRESCRIBING
Set out safe practise for prescribing medication by health & care professionals
Required knowledge + training to prescribe within professional practise
PRIMARY data SECONDARY data
Info gathered themselves directly from Relies on evidence gathered by other
group of pps researchers,
E.g. by accessing peer-reviewed articles
or public access statistics
Data is up to date Eliminates unreliable / flawed research
Designed to target required info with studies
purpose of being specific for Cheaper: don’t start from beginning, find
investigation pps, organise materials, etc.
Can know + evaluate how valid / reliable Fewer ethical issues
research was (high control)
Time-consuming No way of knowing how reliable / valid
Ethical considerations in working directly original research was
with pps =conclusions from data originally flawed
RESEARCH Mental health
LONGITUDINAL
Over longer period of time
Compare single group with their own performance over time
Developmental / time-based changes seen through patterns of measurements
Monitor changes in symptoms under certain treatment
Measurements of symptom expression + severity at intervals to see any reduction in
symptoms and assess how effective treatment
+ No difficulty in comparing btw - Sample attrition: patients drop out,
different people affected by die, not contacted. = remaining pps
individual differences: same illness = share characteristics = biased
different symptoms + experiences findings
+ Reliably measure effect of time on - Irrelevant data: findings published
bhv: if treatment can improve quality years later are outdated
of life in long-term
- Practical difficulties: expensive,
time-consuming, data collection
Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
guidelines
Regulatory body that monitors practitioner psychologists
CHARACTER
Credible character references from those who know them for 3 yrs to give idea of character
traits suitable for role
Whether criminal cautions / convictions affect suitability to practise
HEALTH
General health every 2 yrs
Health issues likely to affect ability to practise safely
Health impairs ability to practise = stop work + declare it
Standards of :
PROFICIENCY
Professional autonomy + accountability
Formulation + delivery of plans and strategies for meeting health + social care needs
CONDUCT, PERFORMANCE and ETHICS
List of 14 guidelines :
- Maintain confidentiality with service users
- Only act within limits of own knowledge + skills, refer to others where necessary
Continuing PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Take part in + document regular training to develop own practise
Training events, evidence of how they’ve changed their practise and evaluation of
effectiveness of this
To keep up to date with current trends in clinical practice
EDUCATION and TRAINING
Set of minimum levels of qualifications specified b4 registering in health & care professions
Evidence Master’s degree with BPS qualification in area of practise working on.
Doctorate degree required for some
Training courses: meet required standards for proficiency expected for their area of practice
, For PRESCRIBING
Set out safe practise for prescribing medication by health & care professionals
Required knowledge + training to prescribe within professional practise
PRIMARY data SECONDARY data
Info gathered themselves directly from Relies on evidence gathered by other
group of pps researchers,
E.g. by accessing peer-reviewed articles
or public access statistics
Data is up to date Eliminates unreliable / flawed research
Designed to target required info with studies
purpose of being specific for Cheaper: don’t start from beginning, find
investigation pps, organise materials, etc.
Can know + evaluate how valid / reliable Fewer ethical issues
research was (high control)
Time-consuming No way of knowing how reliable / valid
Ethical considerations in working directly original research was
with pps =conclusions from data originally flawed
RESEARCH Mental health
LONGITUDINAL
Over longer period of time
Compare single group with their own performance over time
Developmental / time-based changes seen through patterns of measurements
Monitor changes in symptoms under certain treatment
Measurements of symptom expression + severity at intervals to see any reduction in
symptoms and assess how effective treatment
+ No difficulty in comparing btw - Sample attrition: patients drop out,
different people affected by die, not contacted. = remaining pps
individual differences: same illness = share characteristics = biased
different symptoms + experiences findings
+ Reliably measure effect of time on - Irrelevant data: findings published
bhv: if treatment can improve quality years later are outdated
of life in long-term
- Practical difficulties: expensive,
time-consuming, data collection
