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A telepsychology casebook: Using technology ethically and effectively in your professional practice.Testing and assessment.

A telepsychology casebook: Using technology ethically and effectively in your professional... Psychometric and clinical assessment has long been an area of strength for psychologists and a skill set that distinguishes them from other mental health professionals. Their responsibility for ethical conduct with assessments extends to development, training, administration, scoring, interpretation, explanation and release of data, and maintenance of security and integrity of many different instruments while also considering the standardization, reliability, validity, and limitations of such instruments. Psychologists are keenly aware of the detrimental effects that improper care of the assessment process can cause to the public. The responsibility is no less demanding when consideration is given to conducting assessments via telepsychology. In fact, because there is limited research and psychometric data on such use, psychologists are called to a high standard of protecting and ensuring proper care in conducting assessments using telepsychology. In this chapter, we propose several situations that require the psychologist to question actively what additional precautions and preparation are needed when using telepsychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved) http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A telepsychology casebook: Using technology ethically and effectively in your professional practice.Testing and assessment.

Crow, Bruce E.; Landry Poole, Julie M.
American Psychological Association — Aug 28, 2017
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Publisher
American Psychological Association
Copyright
Copyright © 2018 American Psychological Association
ISBN
978-1-4338-2706-8
Pages
121 –140
DOI
10.1037/0000046-008
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Abstract

Psychometric and clinical assessment has long been an area of strength for psychologists and a skill set that distinguishes them from other mental health professionals. Their responsibility for ethical conduct with assessments extends to development, training, administration, scoring, interpretation, explanation and release of data, and maintenance of security and integrity of many different instruments while also considering the standardization, reliability, validity, and limitations of such instruments. Psychologists are keenly aware of the detrimental effects that improper care of the assessment process can cause to the public. The responsibility is no less demanding when consideration is given to conducting assessments via telepsychology. In fact, because there is limited research and psychometric data on such use, psychologists are called to a high standard of protecting and ensuring proper care in conducting assessments using telepsychology. In this chapter, we propose several situations that require the psychologist to question actively what additional precautions and preparation are needed when using telepsychology. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Published: Aug 28, 2017

Keywords: testing; assessment; telepsychology; psychometric assessment; clinical assessment; psychologists; ethics

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