a voluntary listing of individuals who use a title or provide a service
certification -
recognizes competence of practitioners by authorizing them to use the title adopted by the
profession
Licensure -
(most desirable form of credentialing). Form of professional regulation (created by legislation), that
highlights the uniqueness of an occupation, and restricts both the use of the title and the practice of an
occupation.
state agency certification -
Georgia Composite Board of Licensed Professional Counselors, Social Workers, and Marriage and Family
Therapists -
Board is charged by law with regulating the practice of professional counseling, social work, and
marriage and family therapy in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of the people of Georgia.
It does so by enforcing the education and training requirements established by law for licensure in each
profession, by adopting and enforcing a code of ethics governing licensees, by establishing and enforcing
continuing education requirements, and by addressing unlicensed practice in these professions.
Licensed Professional Counselors Association (of Georgia) -
LPCA -lobbying association for counselors
, National board for certified counselors -
NBCC- writes the national exam that we take for licensure
direct liability -
Liability that occurs when supervisors are derelict in the supervision of their trainees, when they
give trainees inappropriate advice about treatment, or when they give tasks to trainees that exceed
their competence.
indirect liability -
Pertains to the responsibilities that supervisors have because of the actions of their supervisees.
Legal responsibility of supervisors for the negligent acts of supervisees if these acts are provided within
the scope of the supervisory relationship.
peer consultation -
Not liable for malpractice
organizational consultation -
(fitness for duty) liable for malpractice
Schrader v. Kohout (1999) -
Case where patient filed suit against psychologist and consulting psychologist. Resulted in there can
be no liability for malpractice in the absence of a physician-patient relationship.
common factors theory -
Therapeutic outcomes:
Therapeutic relationship accounts for 30%
Client traits for 40%
Technique for 15%
Hope Expectancy 15%
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