benchmarks for the attainment of professional competencies. Psychologists and psychologists-in-training are encouraged to engage in ongoing education and self-assessment related to professional competencies. What does it mean to you to be a competent professional and why is this ethically important? How will you assess your competence? How will you maintain your competence? Discuss the importance of self-awareness of personal life experiences‚ including their emotional influence on perceptions
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criminal defendants should be competent to stand trial because trying an incompetent defendant in court leads to injustice and policy considerations (Miller 1988). Competency is required in the trial process as it protects the reliability of the court procedure‚ and guarantees fairness of the legal court process. An offender who may have a mental disorder is examined by medical experts including psychologists and psychiatrists to determine whether he or she is competent to stand trial.
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From Novice to Expert: A Summary of Benner’s Findings Regarding Nurses’ Skill Acquisition In 1984‚ Patricia E. Benner published the finding from a study aimed at identifying what nurses do and how they develop. She went to the clinical setting and asked practicing nurses to describe specific cases or situations they had encountered which stood out in their memories. These experiences were called exemplars or paradigm cases because they changed the perceptions of the nurse. In comparing the
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PYB372 Assessment 1: Annotated Bibliography and Synthesis Young Novice Drivers in Australia: Inexperience and Presence of Passengers on Crash Risk Student Name: Chun-Wen CHENG Student No.: 07097859 Coordinator: Dr Mark King Tutor: Alexia Lennon & Lyndel Bates Due Date: 28/03/12 Word Count: Bibliography (1150) & Synthesis (1546) Annotated Bibliography Chen‚ L.‚ et al. (2000). "Carrying passengers as a risk factor for crashes fatal to 16- and 17-year-old drivers
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Audience- Parents Psychologist ii) Ethos builder – growing up in an pharmaceutical era b) Preview iii) Emphasis on Medication iv) Focus on Therapy v) Positives of medication c) Central idea vi) Move away from the heavily medicated society we are becoming. 2) Main Point #1 emphasis on over medication d) 61% of adults use at least one drug to treat a chronic health problems‚ 15% rise since 2001 e) Gretchen LeFever ‚PhD‚ Eastern
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interaction; we can only truly enjoy life in the company of other humans‚ not objects. Where is the line drawn? Is it possible to cling on to a possession so much that it starts to detrimentally affect the person involved? W.D. Valgardson’s short story The Novice demonstrates that this is certainly a possibility. The protagonist undergoes a similar situation; he gets caught up in idealism (glamorizing his boat – his prized possession (named Sally Anne) – to nearly abnormal proportions) which skews his perception
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“A Novice Manager’s Tale of Woe” Tricia Monet is a store director at a retail store called “Personal Reflections”. Personal Reflections is a national chain of personal care and household products. Tricia moved from Illinois with her fiancé to Sioux City‚ Iowa. Tricia has a bachelors in Accounting‚ but decided she wanted to do something different. She saw the position for assistant director and Personal Reflections and applied. She was hired with under the director Heather Munson. Assistant
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Patricia Benner’s Theory: From Novice to Expert Nursing is a theory-based practice that is continuously evolving and developing. It is an exceptional profession in which the experience of the nurse is the most important aspect to professional growth and development. The development of Patricia Benner’s theory‚ novice to expert has been used to direct clinical practice and transform the view of the nursing profession. Benner applied various experiences within her study of the nursing profession
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In order to be culturally competent we must come to the realization that even though we might see ourselves as a very welcoming and non-bias individual we probably are guilty of stereotyping and generalizing at some point in our lives. I am half Swedish and half Persian therefore‚ I was early on in life surrounded by two completely different cultures and this has definitely made me more open to other cultures than my own‚ but to say that I don’t stereotype or prejudice would be a lie‚ I think we
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