Psychology Licensing and Practice Regulations, Exams of Nursing

Download Psychology Licensing and Practice Regulations and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! 2024 Texas Jurisprudence Psychologist Exam New Latest Version Updated Exam with All Questions from Actual Past Exam and 100% Correct Answers Licensees provide psychological services only in the context of a defined professional relationship. --------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees provide only services for which they have the education, skills, and training to perform competently. --------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees utilize business practices and provide services in a manner that safeguards the privacy and confidentiality of patients and clients. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees must inform their patients or clients about confidentiality and foreseeable limitations on confidentiality created by existing and reasonably foreseeable circumstances prior to the commencement of services as part of the informed consent process. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees keep patients and clients informed of all changes in circumstances affecting confidentiality as they arise. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees comply with Chapter 611 of the Texas Health and Safety Code and all other state and federal law applicable to patient or client confidentiality. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees disclose confidential information without the consent of a patient or client only in compliance with applicable state and federal law. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees who release confidential records relating to a patient or client that also contain confidential information relating to a second patient or client that the licensee obtained through the provision of services to that second individual, and who lack consent or other legal authority to disclose the second individual's identity or records, must remove all identifying and confidential information relating to the second individual before releasing the records. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees may share information for consultation purposes without a consent only to the extent necessary to achieve the purposes of the consultation. Licenses shall exclude information that could lead to the identification of the patient or client. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees shall not require a patient or client to waive a legal right to confidentiality as a condition of providing services. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees include in written and oral reports and consultations, only information germane to the purpose for which the communication is made. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Personal Problems, Conflicts and Dual Relationships ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees shall refrain from providing services when they know or should know that their personal problems or a lack of objectivity are likely to impair their competency or harm a patient, client, colleague, student, supervisee, research participant, or other person with whom they have a professional relationship. Licensees shall refrain from providing services when they know or should know that their personal problems or a lack of objectivity are likely to impair their competency or harm a patient, client, colleague, student, supervisee, research participant, or other person with whom they have a professional relationship. ---------- Correct Answer --------- - True Licensees shall seek professional assistance for any personal problems, including alcohol or substance abuse likely to impair their competency. ---------- Correct Answer -- -------- True Licensees shall not exploit persons over whom they have supervisory evaluative, or other authority such as students, supervisees, employees, research participants, and clients or patients. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True A licensee shall conduct the practice of psychology with the best interest of a patient, client, supervisee, student, or research participant in mind. ---------- Correct Answer ------ ---- True Competency includes the ability to provide services concerning a specific individual that takes into account characteristics of that individual including age, gender, ethnicity, national origin, disability, language, and socio-economic status. --------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees maintain current knowledge of scientific and professional information that ensures competency in every area in which they provide services. --------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees provide services in an unfamiliar area or involving new techniques only after first undertaking appropriate study and training, including supervision, and/or consultation from a professional competent to provide such services. --------- Correct Answer ---------- True In emerging areas in which generally recognized standards for preparatory training do not exist, licensees take reasonable steps to ensure the competence of their work and to protect patients, clients, research participants, and other affected individuals from the potential for harm. --------- Correct Answer ---------- True objectivity, prevent the licensee from providing competent psychological services, or exploit or otherwise cause harm to the other party. Licensees shall not terminate psychological services with a person in order to have a sexual or dating relationship with that person. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees do not terminate psychological services with a person in order to have a sexual or dating relationship with individuals who the licensee knows to be the parents, guardians, spouses, significant others, children, or siblings of the client. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees shall not provide psychological services to a person with whom they have had a sexual or dating relationship. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Licensees decline to offer services when limitations or conditions are placed on their work by the patient, client, or third parties which could foreseeably cause the licensee to violate a Council rule. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True If licensees become aware of misuse or misrepresentation of their services or the results of their services, they take reasonable steps to correct or minimize the misuse or misrepresentation. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- True Fees and Financial Arrangements; unpaid fees ---------- Correct Answer ---------- If services are not paid for as agreed, the licensee shall not utilize a collection agency or legal measures to collect any unpaid fees unless the licensee has provided the affected party with at least 30 days written notice, separate and apart from any notice provided as part of the informed consent process, that such measures will be taken and the party has been provided with a reasonable opportunity to make prompt payment. Fees and Financial Arrangements ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Before the provision of any services, the licensee and the recipient of psychological services reach an agreement specifying the compensation and billing arrangements. Fees and Financial Arrangements; Records ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees shall not withhold records solely because payment has not been received unless specifically permitted by law. Fees and Financial Arrangements; Third-party Payers ---------- Correct Answer ---------- In reporting their services to third-party payers, licensees accurately state the nature, date and fees for the services provided. Fees and Financial Arrangements; Fraud ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees do not engage in fraudulent billing. Licensees do not misrepresent their fees. Licensees do not overcharge or otherwise exploit recipients of services or payers with respect to fees. Fees and Financial Arrangements; Professional Referrals ---------- Correct Answer ------- --- Licensees do not receive payments from or divide fees with another health care provider in exchange for professional referrals. Fees and Financial Arrangements; Bartering ---------- Correct Answer ---------- A licensee does not participate in bartering if it is clinically contra- indicated or if bartering has the potential to create an exploitative or harmful dual relationship. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Scope and Purpose. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees clearly describe the scope and purpose of evaluation, assessment, and testing to patients before they provide these psychological services. Licensees produce reports that clearly state and accurately reflect the scope and purpose of evaluation, assessment, and testing. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; appropriate substantiation ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees verify, by signature and date, that every evaluation, assessment, test result, report, recommendation, or psychological diagnostic or evaluative statement produced is based on information and techniques sufficient to provide appropriate substantiation for its findings. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; Familiarity -------- -- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees administer, score, interpret or use assessment techniques or tests only if they are familiar with the reliability, validation and related standardization or outcome studies of, and proper applications and use of, the techniques they use. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; Professional/Scientific Bases. ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees who administer, score, interpret or utilize psychological assessment techniques, tests or instruments do so in a manner and for purposes for which there are professional or scientific bases. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; obsolete/outdated ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees do not base their assessment or intervention decisions or recommendations on data or test results that are outdated for the current purpose. Licensees do not base decisions or recommendations on tests and measures that are obsolete or not useful for the current purpose. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; Limitations ------- --- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees include all information that provides the basis for their findings in any report in which they make findings or diagnoses about an individual. Licensees identify limits to the certainty with which diagnoses, judgments, or predictions can be made about individuals. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; Interpretations -- -------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees identify various test factors and characteristics of the person being assessed that might affect their professional judgment or reduce the accuracy of their interpretations when interpreting assessment results, including automated interpretations. Licensees include any significant reservations they have about the accuracy or limitations of their interpretations or findings in any report they produce. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; reliability and validity ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees provide opinions of the psychological characteristics of individuals only after they have conducted an examination of the individuals adequate to support their statements or conclusions. When such an examination is not practical, licensees document the efforts they made to obtain such an examination and clarify the probable impact of their limited information to the reliability and validity of their conclusions. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; qualifications ---- ------ Correct Answer ---------- Licensees must meet any education, training, or licensure requirements established by a test publisher for the purchase or use of its test materials. It is presumed that a licensee meets any such requirements if a test publisher or other authorized vendor, sells test materials to a licensee. Any false or misleading representation by a licensee regarding the individual's qualifications will negate this presumption. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; Test Security & Validity ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees must meet any education, training, or licensure requirements established by a test publisher for the purchase or use of its test materials. It is presumed that a licensee meets any such requirements if a test publisher or other authorized vendor, sells test materials to a licensee. Any false or misleading representation by a licensee regarding the individual's qualifications will negate this presumption. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; Production of Reports ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees shall provide the patient, client, or subject of the evaluation with an estimate of the time needed to produce a report prior to conducting any evaluation, assessment, or testing. Evaluation, Assessment, Testing, and Reports; Reliability and Validity; Report time/delay ---------- Correct Answer ---------- Licensees shall produce a report within a reasonable time period following completion of the evaluation, assessment, or testing needed to substantiate the report. Licensees shall notify a patient, client, or subject of the evaluation if a report cannot be produced within the original estimated time period and provide a new production date together with a reasonable explanation for why the report will be delayed. Practice of psychology: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -rendering or offering to render professional service for any fee, monetary or otherwise, to individuals, groups of individuals, organizations, or members of the public which includes the observation, description, evaluation, interpretation, and modification of human behavior, by the application of psychological principles, methods and procedures, for the purpose of assessing or effecting changes in symptomatic, maladaptive, or undesired behavior and issues pertaining to interpersonal relationships, work and life adjustment, personal effectiveness and mental health -includes but is not limited to: i) psychological testing, assessment and evaluation, intelligence, personality, abilities, attitudes, motivation, interests and aptitudes ii) counseling, psychotherapy, hypnosis, biofeedback training and behavior therapy iii) diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorder or disability, alcoholism and substance abuse, and the psychological aspects of physical illness or disability iv) psychoeducational evaluation, therapy, remediation and consultation -does not include the teaching of psychology, the conduct of psychological research, or the provision of psychological consultation to organizations, unless it involves delivery or supervision of direct service Board: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -the board of registration of psychologists Doctoral degree in psychology: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -a doctoral degree from a recognized educational institution from a program in psychology as defined by the rules and regulations of the board Health service: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -the delivery of direct, preventive, assessment, and therapeutic intervention services to individuals whose growth, adjustment, or functioning is actually impaired or may be at risk of impairment Health service training program: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -supervised experience at a site where health services in psychology are normally provided which is part of an organized integrated training program as defined by the rules and regulations of the board Psychologist: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -an individual who by training and experience meets the requirements for licensing by the board and is duly licensed to practice psychology in the commonwealth Recognized educational institution: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -a degree- granting college or university which is accredited by a Regional Board or Association of Institutions of higher education approved by the Council on Post Secondary Education of the United States Department of Education, or which is chartered to grant doctoral degrees by the commonwealth (institutional accreditation shall exist at the time of degree conferral or within two years thereafter) Supervised health experience: Definition --------- Correct Answer -------- -training at a site where health services in psychology are normally provided, with which the applicant has a formal relationship, and where the applicant is supervised at least 1 hour for every 16 hours of training, at least 1/2 of which is provided by a psychologist licensed by the board who is a member of the staff of the training site, and where at least 25% of the applicant's time shall be in direct client contact Application for license as a psychologist --------- Correct Answer -------- -assessment by board of the following criteria (with furnishing evidence): i) person is of good moral character ii) person has received a doctoral degree in psychology from a recognized education institution iii) has engaged for the equivalent of at least two years full time, at least one year of which was before receiving the doctoral degree, in psychological employment, teaching, research, or professional practice under the supervision of or in collaboration with a licensed psychologist, or one clearly eligible for licensure in the opinion of the board iv) conducts professional activities in accordance with accepted standards (e.g., APA) -satisfaction of above requirements must be determined --> applicant must then pass an examination administered by the board -any licensed psychologist who independently provides or offers to provide to the public, health services shall be certified as a health service provider by the board- the board shall certify as a health service provider applicants who shall demonstrate that they have at least 2 years full time of supervised health experience, of which at least one year is before receiving the doctoral degree and at least one year of which is in a health service training program Application for license as a psychologist: Examination --------- Correct Answer -------- - applicant must first meet basic application requirements before completing examination -examinations shall be conducted at least once a year at a time and place determined by the board -examinations shall be written, oral, or both as board deems advisable -an applicant shall be held to have passed an examination upon the affirmative vote of at least 5 members of the board -any person who shall have failed an examination conducted by the board may not be admitted to a subsequent examination for a period of at least 6 months -the board may issue a license without examination to an applicant who presents evidence that he has been licensed or certified as a psychologist by a similar board of another jurisdiction whose standards, in the opinion of the board, are not lower than those required in the commonwealth, or that he holds a diploma from a nationally recognized board or agency approved by the board Unauthorized practice or use of title --------- Correct Answer -------- -Any person not licensed to practice psychology who holds himself out to be a psychologist or who uses the title "psychologist" or engages in the practice of psychology shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment of max 3 months, or both -Penalties do not apply to: i) person eligible for licensure who provide consultative services for a fee no more than 1 day / month ii) students of psychology, psychological interns, or persons preparing for the practice of psychology under qualified supervision in a recognized training institution of facility, provided that they are designated by such titles as "intern / trainee / etc." to indicate such trainee status -Does not apply to prevent qualified members of other professions or occupations (e.g., guidance counselors, social workers, members of the clergy) from doing work of a psychological nature consistent with the accepted standards of their respective professions; however, they cannot hold themselves out to the public by any title or description stating or implying that they are psychologists or are licensed to practice psychology; school psychologists must have the title Certified School Psychologist Temporary licenses --------- Correct Answer -------- -The board may grant a temporary license for a period of max 1 year to a psychologist with legal residence outside of the commonwealth to practice within the commonwealth provided he registers with the board and practices in consultation with, or under the supervision of, a licensed psychologist or possesses qualifications acceptable to the board Licensing: Fees --------- Correct Answer -------- -fees are determined by the commissioner of administration -fees are collected by the board -Yearly fees: i) Application fee ii) Initial license fee iii) Temporary license fee iv) Biennial renewal fee Licensing: Term of license, renewal --------- Correct Answer -------- -Licenses shall be valid for two years, renewed biennially (every other year) -On or before 4/15 every two years, the secretary of the board shall forward to each licensed psychologist an application form for renewal; Upon receipt of the completed form and renewal fee on or before 6/1, the secretary shall renew the license for two years, commencing 7/1 -20 hours of continuing education programs designed to improve the professional competence of the licensee (documented) is required for renewal and must be completed during the licensed period immediately prior to renewal Continuing Education --------- Correct Answer -------- -program must be approved by the American Psychological Association or such other accreditation program that the board may designate as appropriate -designed to improve the professional competence of the licensee Licensing: Investigation --------- Correct Answer -------- -The board shall investigate all complaints relating to the proper practice of psychology by any licensed psychologist Licensing: revocation, suspension, cancellation: Causes --------- Correct Answer -------- - The board may, after a hearing in accordance with provisions of law, revoke, suspend,