What Are At Least Two Legal Issues Associated With Clinical Psychology?
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The Practice of Clinical Psychology Worksheet
Answer the following questions. Your response to each question must be at least 150 words in length.
.1 What are at least two legal issues associated with clinical psychology? Provide an example of a situation that could be legal but unethical. Explain your response. The first legal issue associated with clinical psychology is confidentiality. Whenever a patient seeks help, everything that is said in the sessions must be held confidential and the patient is encouraged to speak freely. There are times when confidentiality becomes unethical and that is if and when the patient talks about issues that may cause harm or being a serious threat to themselves or someone else. An example of this would be if a patient talks about committing suicide or mentions for example child abuse.
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Psychologists are expected to be professional and honest at all times with their patients and others around them. When a patient is with the psychologist, the psychologist has to honestly tell the patient of all tests that will be done or what will happen in a session. When a psychologist or any other professional for that matter is not honest, it can result in complications which include legal problems. An example for integrity issues that result in legal matters is if a psychologist tells his or her patient that by telling the truth about anything, it will not be reported. A psychologist has an obligation to report any activities that may result in harm to the patient or someone else such as with child abuse. If the patient admits to child abuse because they assumed they would not get into trouble legally, then the integrity of the psychologist is then compromised. If the psychologist did not report what was said during the session, the psychologist and/or patient can end up getting into legal
The Practice of Clinical Psychology Worksheet
Answer the following questions. Your response to each question must be at least 150 words in length.
.1 What are at least two legal issues associated with clinical psychology? Provide an example of a situation that could be legal but unethical. Explain your response. The first legal issue associated with clinical psychology is confidentiality. Whenever a patient seeks help, everything that is said in the sessions must be held confidential and the patient is encouraged to speak freely. There are times when confidentiality becomes unethical and that is if and when the patient talks about issues that may cause harm or being a serious threat to themselves or someone else. An example of this would be if a patient talks about committing suicide or mentions for example child abuse.
The second legal …show more content…
Psychologists are expected to be professional and honest at all times with their patients and others around them. When a patient is with the psychologist, the psychologist has to honestly tell the patient of all tests that will be done or what will happen in a session. When a psychologist or any other professional for that matter is not honest, it can result in complications which include legal problems. An example for integrity issues that result in legal matters is if a psychologist tells his or her patient that by telling the truth about anything, it will not be reported. A psychologist has an obligation to report any activities that may result in harm to the patient or someone else such as with child abuse. If the patient admits to child abuse because they assumed they would not get into trouble legally, then the integrity of the psychologist is then compromised. If the psychologist did not report what was said during the session, the psychologist and/or patient can end up getting into legal