PSY 4372 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Clinical Psychology, Psy
5 Jun 2018
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Clinical Psychology
Clinical Psychologists
i. provide psychological services
ii. conducting research
iii. provide clinical training
iv. consulting with other professionals and agencies
Clinical Consultation: the provisions of information, advice, and recommendations about how
best to assess, understand, or treat a client.
Organizational Consultation: services to an organization focused on developing a prevention or
intervention program, evaluating how well an organization is doing in providing health care or
related service, or pricing an opinion on policies on health care services set by an organization.
As a member of a multidisciplinary team, a clinical psychologists revise requests to provide
guidance about a patient who is under the care of another professional.
Consultation to agencies usually includes: needs assessment, program development, program
evaluation, and policy consultation. Needs assessments are required to determine the extent of
an unmet health care need in an identified population. A clinical psychologist might be asked to
conduct a needs assumer to determine whether there are mechanisms to ensure that new
immigrants are aware of health care services within their community.
The two pillars of clinical psychology: science and ethics.
• informed research which questions how the research should inform practice and just what
constitutes as research evidence.
Four Ethical Principles in the Code:
i. Respect for the dignity of persons
ii. Responsible Caregiving
iii. Integrity of Relationships
iv. Responsibility to Society
Ethical codes require psychologists to be self-aware and not to offer psychological services
when their own functioning is impaired.
• versions of the code were developed from an analysis of the international and
interdisciplinary literature on codes of ethics
• empirical methods were used to incorporate the knowledge of Canadian psychologists into
the code
• an ethical model of ethical decision making is embedded in the code, in contrast to other
codes that rely primarily on absolute and prescriptive standards
• the code uses deferential weighting of the four ethical principles so that it is clear that
respect for the dignity of persons should usually be given greater weight in decision making
than the principle of responsibility to society
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Document Summary
Clinical psychologists: provide psychological services, conducting research, provide clinical training, consulting with other professionals and agencies. Clinical consultation: the provisions of information, advice, and recommendations about how best to assess, understand, or treat a client. As a member of a multidisciplinary team, a clinical psychologists revise requests to provide guidance about a patient who is under the care of another professional. Consultation to agencies usually includes: needs assessment, program development, program evaluation, and policy consultation. Needs assessments are required to determine the extent of an unmet health care need in an identified population. A clinical psychologist might be asked to conduct a needs assumer to determine whether there are mechanisms to ensure that new immigrants are aware of health care services within their community. The two pillars of clinical psychology: science and ethics: informed research which questions how the research should inform practice and just what constitutes as research evidence.
