All but Which of the Following Scenarios Involves Violation of the APA

question 6

Multiple Choice

All but which of the following scenarios involves violation of the APA ethical principle of "competence"?

• A) A clinician with a doctoral degree in counseling introduces herself as "Doctor Smith" and does not specify the nature of her training.
• B) A clinician with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology uses an assessment or treatment procedure that he has not been specifically trained to use.
• C) A clinician who is going through a messy divorce refers a similarly messy marital therapy case to another clinician due to fears that she would lack objectivity.
• D) Each of the above scenarios involves violation of the competence principle.

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Definitions:

Probability

An evaluation of event occurrence likelihood, represented as a numerical value ranging between 0 and 1.

Standard Normal Table

A reference table that provides the area under the curve of the standard normal distribution, often used to find probabilities and critical values.

Mutually Exclusive Events

Two or more events that cannot occur at the same time, making it impossible for them to happen simultaneously in any given trial.

Probabilities

The quantification of how likely an event is to happen, expressed as a number ranging from 0 to 1, with 0 meaning it cannot occur and 1 meaning it will definitely happen.