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Dear Aspiring Psychometrician,

Do not forget to have (1) Self-awareness and self-management - cognition, affect, and behavior. (2) Have the right kind of mindset. (3) Accept that you will devote time, energy, and effort in your review. (4) the journey can be or is difficult (5) You need to change aspects of your life to integrate your review.

Rather than having a FIXED MINDSET, it entails having a GROWTH MINDSET.

You are capable of managing your emotions 🧡

Love,

Dear Aspiring Psychometrician,

I found this from Code of Ethics as I study Psycholocal Assessment.

Since the Tarasoff case in 1974, duty to warn and duty to protect have become important as concepts in the field of social work and other helping disciplines. Being able to protect potential victims from harm and protecting clients from self-harm have become ethical obligations in social work practice. This area needs to be explored and understood by social work practitioners, educators, and social work students. Duty to warn and duty to protect have ethical implications for all social Walcott, Cerundolo, and Beck (2001) describe the facts of the Tarasoff case. Prosenjit Poddar and Tatiana Tarasoff were students at UC Berkeley. Poddar stated to the university health science psychologist that he intended to kill an unnamed woman, who was identified as Tatiana Tarasoff. Although the psychotherapist did not directly warn Tarasoff or the family, the psychologist notified the police, who interviewed Poddar for commitment. The police only warned Poddar to stay away from Tarasoff. After Tarasoff returned from a summer in Brazil, Poddar murdered Tatiana with a knife. Tarasoff’s family sued the campus police and the university health service for negligence. Walcott, Cerundolo, and Beck (2001) cite the second Tarasoff case, establishing a duty to protect.

When a therapist determines, or pursuant to the standards of his profession should determine, that his patient presents a serious danger of violence to another, he incurs an obligation to use reasonable care to protect the intended victim against such danger. The discharge of the duty may require the therapist to take one or more various steps, depending on the nature of the case. Thus, it may call for him to warn the intended victim or others likely to appraise the victims of that danger, to notify the police or take whatever steps are reasonably necessary under the circumstances (p. 340).

The Tarasoff case imposed a liability on all mental health professionals to protect a victim from violent acts. The first Tarasoff case imposed a duty to warn the victim, whereas the second Tarasoff case implies a duty to protect (Kopels & Kagle, 1993). There are many concerns about the implications of the Tarasoff case, especially around the confidentiality of the client-social worker relationship and violent clients avoiding treatment.

Since the second Tarasoff decision in 1976, there has been argument and debate as to the applicability of this judgment to the client-social worker relationship. The environment has changed for social work and confidentiality, as social workers now divulge confidential information to third-party payers. Tarasoff is an important decision with legal implications, and only 13 states in the U.S. lacked Tarasoff-like provisions at the time of Herbert’s report in 2002.

Duty to warn means that the social worker must verbally tell the intended victim that there is a foreseeable danger of violence. Duty to protect implies a therapist determining that his or her patient presents a serious danger of violence to another and an obligation to use reasonable care to protect the intended victim against danger (Harvard Mental Health Letter, 2008, January). This may entail a warning, police notification, or other necessary steps.

Duty to warn and duty to protect have implications for social work practitioners in the fields of mental health, HIV/AIDS, domestic violence, and medical social work. There are also serious implications for malpractice and unethical behavior. What began as a mental health issue has been expanded to other fields of social work practice.

Duty to Warn and Duty to Protect in Mental Health

In the field of mental health, it is difficult to actually make predictions of client violence. The Harvard Mental Health Letter (2006, January) makes recommendations for handling duty to protect with homicidal and suicidal patients.

The principles for managing a threat of violence are generally the same as those for dealing with a suicidal threat. Therapists should find out whether a patient has ever seriously injured or thought about seriously injuring another person. Especially with new patients or any patients whose symptoms are becoming worse, it is important to know whether they are dangerous to others and whether the danger is due to mental illness. Is the patient losing the capacity to control violent impulses? (p.4)

Duty to protect can involve warning the potential victim, notifying the police, starting a commitment hearing, informing mental health evaluators of the threat, and utilizing professional supervision. Duty to protect involves working with homicidal and suicidal clients. The obligation of duty to protect varies from state to state (Dolgoff, Loewenberg, & Harrington, 2009).

Failure to protect potential victims of violence can result in losing one’s job at an agency. Consider the following hypothetical example.

A professional social worker conducted an intake interview with a client with a history of mental health problems and violence toward his father. The client was somewhat delusional and stated that he might hurt his father that evening. The social worker made no effort to commit the patient for hospitalization. That evening, the patient became violent and broke his father’s leg. The next day, the social worker was fired for negligence.

Protecting the well being of homicidal and suicidal clients is the obligation of professional social workers. Social workers should frequently utilize supervision and consultation when working on this issue of duty to protect, because it has ethical and malpractice considerations.

I love reading them especially that I am also a law student. Let us not forget our Code of Ethics. Let us bind them in our hearts and let us live with them as well.

Happy Studying.

Love,

Dear Aspiring Psychometrician,

Don't let the enemy steal your joy today.

He'll try you know.

You may not even realize it until it's too late.

From the moment your feet hit the floor, he'll do all that he can to distract you, to overwhelm you, to frustrate you, and to stir up worry and strife. Often his ways are subtle, other times they're more clear. It’s what he does best. Stealing. Killing. Destroying.

Just say "no."

Don't let him win.

We have a choice of who we listen to and what we believe.

Recognize who is at the root of it all, and push past his lies, step over his traps.

God gives us the power through His Holy Spirit to live free from the entanglement of sin. He gives us the power to live strong. He gives wisdom and discernment to make the right choices. He gives joy deep inside. He offers the assurance, that no matter what we face, He is with us.

His truth says this, 8 loving reminders:

"The joy of the Lord is my strength." Neh.8:10

"Greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world." 1 John 4:4

"No weapon that is formed against you will prosper..." Is.54:17

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” Rom.15:13

“Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” James 1:2

“This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Ps.118:24

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.” Is. 55:12

Satan knows your name, but he calls you by your sin. God knows your sin, but He calls you by your name.

May His grace, peace, and joy cover your day.

He is with you.

Praying for you!!

Dear Aspiring Psychometrician,

It's 77 days left before the board exam. I had days of silence. I haven't share a lot because I struggled with life again. Things aren't easy. There are a lot of changes, difficulties, and many more. All I can say is that, ADULTING IS REALY HARD!! But with God as my strength, I know I will make this. He is my strength as of the moment. And I praise Him for never letting me go.

Let us not give up easily. Let us focus on that RPm this year. Amidst all the challenges, let us still dare to hope and believe in Jesus!!

Love,

Dear Aspiring Psychometrician,

WHY YOU SHOULD CHANGE YOUR THINKING

It’s hard to overstate the value of changing your thinking. Good thinking can do many things for you: generate revenue, solve problems, and create opportunities. It can take you to a whole new level—personally and professionally. It really can change your life.

Consider some things you need to know about changing your thinking:

1. Changed Thinking Is Not Automatic

Sadly, a change in thinking doesn’t happen on its own. Good ideas rarely go out and find someone. If you want to find a good idea, you must search for it. If you want to become a better thinker, you need to work at it—and once you begin to become a better thinker, the good ideas keep coming. In fact, the amount of good thinking you can do at any time depends primarily on the amount of good thinking you are already doing.

2. Changed Thinking Is Difficult

When you hear someone say, “Now this is just off the top of my head,” expect dandruff. The only people who believe thinking is easy are those who don’t habitually engage in it. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, one of the best thinkers who ever lived, asserted, “Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.”

Because thinking is so difficult, you want to use anything you can to help you improve the process.

3. Changed Thinking Is Worth the Investment

Author Napoleon Hill observed, “More gold has been mined from the thoughts of man than has ever been taken from the earth.” When you take the time to learn how to change your thinking and become a better thinker, you are investing in yourself. Gold mines tap out. Stock markets crash. Real estate investments can go sour.

But a human mind with the ability to think well is like a diamond mine that never runs out. It’s priceless.

Love,

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Dear Aspiring Psychometrician,

The board exam is fast approaching. But don't forget, God doesn’t abandon you 🧡. He may let us linger in the barren wasteland for awhile but that is because He is being patient.

Vs. 9 For my name’s sake I defer my anger.. that I may not cut you off

This is the definition of mercy.

God is saying “I am being very patient with you, withholding my judgment, that I don’t lode you.”

Mercy is not getting what we deserve.

Eph 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.

We can be hypocrites, stubborn, and rebellious but God patiently waits for us to return

It’s not that He is not actively trying to bring us back.

Vs. 10 He actually tries us through the furnace of affliction

He turns up the heat on us so that we will turn back to Him.

I have been disconnected and discouraged today. But He is patient with me and He just want me to turn back to Him.

Choose to be with Him. Don't forget the Giver of our mission as mental health advocate. As we chase our dreams, let's not be discouraged and let's make Him the priority.

Go back to Him and acknowledge His mercy.

Love,

105 Days before BLEPP 2021 || My 105 Letters to Aspiring Psychometricians 🧡

Dear Aspiring Psychometrician,

Hi! I am Eden Relente, a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Psychology of Adventist University of the Philippines. I had my first take of Board Examination last October 2019 but failed the exam.

This 2021, I'll be trying again with the Lord. And this 105 Days left before the board exam, let me share to you my journey.

Carl Rogers on Person-Centered Theory reminded us on Existential Living which says:

1. We have to live in the moment and see each experience as something fresh and appreciate it fully.

2. We don't need to deceive ourselves.

3. There's no reason to impress others.

4. Remember to be young in mind and spirit.

5. Have no preconceptions about how the world should be.

6. Discover what an experience means by living in it.

It may be tough along the way but let's discover day by day on what He will do. Let us never forget to trust Him and humble ourselves in Him.

We have a greater mission as mental health advocate and as channel of hope in preparation for His soon coming.

Have faith.

Love,