Title: Navigating Ethical & Professional Challenges in Health Service Psychology Training: Strategies & Resources
Authors: Aosved, A. C., Davis, C., Hurley, D., and Self, M.
This panel will serve as a follow-up from the 2018 membership conference presentation which educated conference attendees about two APPIC resources (IPC) and APPIC Standards and Review Committee (ASARC) as well as common training challenges and ethical difficulties experienced by psychology doctoral internship and postdoctoral training programs. During this presentation, a subset of the APPIC board will lead a panel discussion on lessons learned from the last decade of IPC requests. Specifically, common IPC themes related to 1) problems of professional competence in trainees, 2) difficulties at training sites/program, and 3) problems encountered by doctoral program DCTs will be reviewed. Audience participation will be encouraged via small group tasks designed to encourage use of ethical decision making skills applied to training related vignettes based on common themes represented in APPIC IPCs. Diversity will be addressed within the vignettes as well as the related discussion questions. Finally, common recommendations from IPC consultants will be shared with the audience.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe the purpose of APPIC’s IPC.
Participants will be able to list the top 3 most common stakeholder groups who submit IPCs to APPIC.
Participants will be able to list three steps from Pope & Vasquez’s ethical decision making model.
Participants will be able to list the top 3 most common recommendations made by APPIC IPC consultants.
Audience participation:
Audience participation will be encouraged via small group tasks designed to encourage use of ethical decision making skills applied to training related vignettes based on common themes represented in APPIC IPCs.
Diversity:
Diversity will be addressed within the vignettes as well as the related discussion questions.
References:
American Psychological Association (2010). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct. Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/ethics/code/principles.pdf.
Aosved, A.C., Sykes, L. K., Davis, C., Teng, E. J., & Ponce, A. N. (under review). Problems encountered by psychology trainees at psychology internship and postdoctoral training programs: The important role of consultation. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
Ponce, A. N., Aosved, A.C., & Hill, K. (in press). Facilitation of consultation and communication between psychology doctoral programs and internships. Training and Education in Professional Psychology.
Ponce, A. N., Aosved, A. C., Sykes, L. Y., Davis, C., & Teng, E. (2019). Addressing concerns in psychology training: Consultation on trainee development. Training and Education in Professional Psychology. DOI: 10.1037/tep0000237.
Pope, K. S., & Vasquez, M. J. T. (2016). Ethics in psychotherapy and counseling: A practical guide. John Wiley & Sons. Retrieved from https://kspope.com/memory/ethics.php