Interpreting psychological test results to the hospitalized consumer.

Ladkin, Jean F.; Levine, Linda

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“…Most studies of psychological testing practices have primarily focused on the question of what tests are employed (e.g., Fee, Elkins, & Boyd, 1982;Lubin, Wallis, & Paine, 1971;Sundberg, 1961;Wade, Baker, Morton, & Baker, 1978) or on shifts in preference from projective tests to more objective testing (Shemberg & Keeley, 1970;Thelen & Ewing, 1970;Thelen, Varble, & Johnson, 1968). Few articles, however, have dealt with ethical or professional questions pertinent to the practices of psychologists who use these tests.…”

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“…One justification is that assessment instruments may be usefully employed as an adjunctive mode of treatment (e.g., Harrison, 1965;Harrower, 1960). Others (e.g., Ladkin & Levine, 1976) have argued that it is the patient's right to know and that witholding information from the client reinforces the sick role by adding the authority of the psychological battery to the diagnosis.…”

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Ethical and professional considerations in psychological assessment.

Berndt

1983

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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Professional activities and ethical practices of psychologists who administer psychodiagnostic assessment and testing devices are explored. A return rate of 72% on a survey of WO subjects indicated considerable interest in the subject matter. A majority of the respondents' ethical practices were apparently in keeping with established ethical principles; however, a diversity of professional styles was evident. Most respondents gave feedback to the clients, with a large percentage willing to give feedback on projective as well as objective tests. Although most respondents kept old cases safely under lock, few appeared to have followed American Psychological Association guidelines to detach names from raw data on obsolete materials.

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Ethical and professional considerations in psychological assessment.

Berndt

1983

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…Several authorities have encouraged the sharing of professional files and test results with mental health clients and patients to promote maximum growth and self-responsibility (Brodsky, 1972;Fischer, 1970Fischer, , 1972Goldman, 1972;Ladkin & Levine, 1976;Riscalla, 1972). Clients' access to their own files seems compatible with a wide variety of theoretical approaches including behavioral (Lazarus, 1971;Ullman & Krasner, 1965), general systems (Bertalanffy, 1968), phenomenological (Giorgi, 1970), and client-centered (Rogers, 1951(Rogers, , 1961Rogers & Dymond, 1954) models and those of Carson (1969) and Mischel (1968).…”

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“…Open files and test results may be generally consistent with the best interests of the client and society. An open sharing of test results in nonjudgmental, behavioral terms may provide a hospitalized patient and family members important feedback on how their behaviors affect each other (Ladkin & Levine, 1976). Such open sharing of test results may also help with problems of professional jargon (Hallenstein, 1978;Riscalla, 1972).…”

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Conflicts Between Ethics and Law in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Mappes¹,

Robb

Engels

1985

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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Codes of ethics are designed to guide and govern the behavior of the professional for whom they are written. In such fields as counseling, psychology, and social work, ethical standards are necessary to protect clients, guide professionals, safeguard the autonomy of professional workers, and enhance the status of the profession. Sometimes, however, the professional worker finds that the ethical standards of the profession seem to be in conflict with the law. These conflicts may arise in such areas as advertising, confidentiality, and clients' rights of access to their own files. The authors discuss the nature, ramifications, and implications of ethical-legal conflicts in the helping professions.

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“…Similarly, Lazare, Cohen, and Jacobson (1972) and Lazare, Eisenthal, and Wasserman (1975) have proposed "an approach... by which the patient is treated as a customer whose requests are usually legitimate and always a key part of the clinical negotiations" (Lazare et al, 1972, p. 872). A number of writers have suggested a "paradigm change" in assessment that would allow open files and the sharing of test results with patients (Brodsky, 1972;Fischer, 1970Fischer, , 1972Ladkin & Levine, 1970).…”

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Toward a participatory model of psychotherapy.

Coyne¹,

Widiger²

1978

Professional Psychology

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A pervasive model of the psychotherapeutic relationship has assumed that patient welfare is best served by the therapist's exercise of control over, and responsibility for, methods, goals, and decisions in treatment. However, increased sensitivity to ethical dilemmas in the routine conduct of therapy and more vocal demands by the users of mental health services are likely to lead to a restructuring of the psychotherapeutic relationship. This article argues for a mutual participatory model of therapy that would give a central place to active, skeptical efforts by the patient to be informed and to share responsibility for therapeutic decisions.Recent efforts to define rights and responsibilities in the psychotherapeutic relationship have focused almost exclusively on involuntarily committed or at least hospitalized patients. These discussions have tended to ignore the problems of voluntary outpatients, because violations of their rights are not as blatant. However, in the long run, cases in which outpatients consent to treatment or even request it pose complex ethical questions for psychotherapists and society as a whole (Halleck, 1974). The present paper considers how aspects of traditional practice that have been previously considered noncontroversial enter into these questions and how they are in need of change. Much of traditional thinking has been based on an inappropriate analogy to medical treatment by physicians. The results have been a consistent and pervasive model in which it is assumed that patient welfare is best served by the psychotherapist's exercise of predominant control over and responsibility for methods, goals, and decisions of treatment. This paper suggests the need for an alternative model in which it is assumed that patient welfare is best served when the patient participates actively in decisions as to whether to or how to treat his problems and that this participation is facilitated by the therapist's sharing of information.Increasingly, patients are defining themselves as consumers of mental health services with legitimate demands for full participation in treatment decisions (Adams & Orgel, 1975). Recent discussions of the treatment of a highly religious person (Cohen &

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Interpreting psychological test results to the hospitalized consumer.

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Ethical and professional considerations in psychological assessment.

Ethical and professional considerations in psychological assessment.

Conflicts Between Ethics and Law in Counseling and Psychotherapy

Toward a participatory model of psychotherapy.

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