The APS ethical standards that relate to competency are related to what General Principle?
B: Propriety
What are the 6 psychology graduate attributes?
- Knowledge and understanding
- Research methods
- Critical thinking
- Values
- Communication skills
- Learning and application
What’s one issue that can arise when working with multiple clients?
Each client may have different expectations about the nature, extent, duration, and outcome of the psychological service
What are the 4 guidelines under B.1 Competence in the Code?
B.1.1 Psychologists bring and maintain appropriate skills and learning to their areas of professional practice
B.1.2 Only provide services within boundaries of competence
B.1.3 Seek professional supervision and consultation
B.1.4 Continuously monitor professional functioning
What are the 4 guidelines under B.2 Record keeping in the Code?
B.2.1 Psychologists make and keep adequate records
B.2.2 Keep records for minimum 7 years since last contact
B.2.3 For under 18s, keep records until at least 25yo
B.2.4 Don’t refuse requests from clients to amend information
Define competency
Possessing the knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) to be able to do something successfully or efficiently
What are some of the core capabilities and attributes that must be achieved by a provisional psychologist during an internship program?
- Knowledge of the discipline
- Ethical, legal and professional matters
- Psychological assessment and measurement
- Intervention strategies
- Research and evaluation
- Communication and interpersonal relationships
- Working within a cross-cultural context
- Practice across the lifespan
What are some of the micro-skills of counselling?
- Informed consent
- Effective listening
- Attending to the client
- Questioning
- Encouraging
- Paraphrasing
- Summarising
- Confrontation
- Time management of a session
- Termination of a session
- Knowledge of electronic and communication technologies
What are some of the specific competencies required by an educational psychologist?
- Working with children, parents, and schools
- Working with indigenous communities
- Assessment of education level
What are some of the specific competencies required by a forensic psychologist?
- Knowledge of law
- Working with criminals
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Assessment of psychiatric state
- Preparing accurate reports
What are the 2 models for the assessment of professional competence in psychology?
- Matrix model
- Cube model
What is the horizontal dimension of the matrix model?
Source - person/environment
What is the vertical dimension of the matrix model?
Valence - strengths/weaknesses
What are the 4 factors yielded by the matrix model?
- Strengths within a person
- Strengths within the environment
- Weakness within a person
- Weaknesses within the environment
What are the 4 conceptual levels that the core of the matrix model operates on?
- Individual (micro)
- Interpersonal (meso)
- Institutional (exo)
- Societal (macro)
What are the 3 orthogonal dimensions relevant to training that make up the cube model?
- Foundational competencies
- Functional competencies
- Stages of professional development
What are the 6 domains that comprise the 20 primary competencies from the European Diploma in Psychology (EuroPsy)?
- Goal specification
- Assessment
- Development
- Intervention
- Evaluation
- Communication
“Interacting with the client for the purpose of defining goals of the service that will be provided” describes what EuroPsy competency domain?
Goal specification
“Establishing relevant characteristics of individuals, groups, organisations, and situations by means of appropriate methods” describes what competency domain?
Assessment
“Developing services or products on the basis of psychological theory and methods for the use by clients or psychologists” describes what competency domain?
Development
“Identifying, preparing, carrying out interventions that are appropriate for reaching the set goals, using the results of assessment and development activities” describes what competency domain?
Intervention
“Establishing the adequacy of interventions in terms of adherence to the intervention plan and the achievement of set goals” describes what competency domain?
Evaluation
“Providing information to clients in a way that is adequate to fulfill the clients’ needs and expectations” describes what competency domain?
Communication
What 2 competencies make up goal specification?
- Needs analysis
- Goal-setting
