Exam 5: Client Autonomy and Client Rights

This case provided a decision on the need for informed consent despite institutional procedures that may be contradictory:

This study involved requesting that a participant teach another, a research confederate, and use shock as a negative reinforcement if the learner (research confederate) responded incorrectly (which he or she was instructed to do).

Early efforts at providing consent and informed consent were based on protection and not necessarily a perspective that patients/clients had rights.

Assent does not hold the same legal status as consent.

This is defined as an iterative process in which a person who lacks power sets a personally meaningful goal oriented towards increasing power, takes action toward that goal, and observes and reflects on the impact of this action, drawing on his or her evolving self-efficacy, knowledge, and competence related to the goal.

Henkelman and Everall (2001) suggested that consent consists of three important components including all but which:

Plato would treat a patient before he had consent from the person.

One of the early judicial decisions promoting consumer rights in the early 1900s was in Schloendorff v. _____________, which focused on a patient's not giving consent for treatment but treatment's still being provided.

The American Counseling Association's (2005) ACA Code of Ethics suggests eight components be included in an informed consent. List and describe four of these components.

The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal of 1946 provided insight into the importance of providing informed consent prior to participating in medical procedures.

Historically the medical profession held a ___________attitude based on the view that the patient was not smart enough to make decisions.

HIPPA was implemented in:

Children in most states are not able to legally give informed consent before the age of ____.

_______ acknowledged consent before the medical treatment of those who were free, not slaves.

Discuss autonomy as it relates to informed consent.

The Tuskegee syphilis study initially involved an intention to study 600 ______________ men, 400 with syphilis and 200 without syphilis.

_________________ of 1946 provided insight into the importance of providing informed consent prior to participating in medical procedures.

The interpersonal circumplex model is based on which two dimensions:

E. Brussgaard studied untreated syphilis in Caucasians and published his results in _______.

This is described as including the following: "self-governance, liberty, rights, privacy, individual choice, liberty to follow one's will, causing one's own behavior, and being one's own person"