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Consent to Treatment Form Services Offered PSYCHOTHERAPY The psychotherapy is a powerful treatment regime for patient with mental problems. It helps to reduce stress, improve the interpersonal relationship, and offer a deeper insight into one’s values, goals, and development. An effective therapeutic relationship requires discipline and motivation. The clients must be aware of the process of psychotherapy that may bring unpleasant memories, sensation, and feelings such as anxiety, anger, guilt, and sadness. MEDICATION The patient must be aware of the fact that medication is an important alternative to psychotherapy especially when the patient is no responding to psychotherapy. Medication is an effective alternative to psychotherapy when mental illness affects the ability of the patient to work and maintain interpersonal relationships. The patient must learn how the medication works, frequency, its dosage, expected benefits, drug interactions, withdrawals, possible side effects amongst others. FREQUENCY AND DURATION OF VISITS The initial visit is fifty to an hour duration that is followed by a 30-minute follow-up within two weeks. It would ensure that there is proper administration and minimize any side effects of the experiences. FEES The hour initial evaluation would cost $200 that could combine both psychotherapy and medication management. The fee for the 30-minute follow-up would be $100. It is important to understand that other services would cost $85 per hour. The canceling of the session must be done 24 hours before the scheduled session. The payment can be made using insurance policy or credit cards. MEDICAL RECORDS It is a requirement of the law to keep medical records. The patient is also entitled to review their medical records regularly. It is vital to understand that the filing of medical records is charged to the bill of the patient. CONFIDENTIALITY Confidentiality of the information of the patient is very important, and the therapist is bound by the law to protect the patient’s confidentiality. Any disclosure about the treatment of the patient to others would require explicit written consent. TREATMENT CONSENT By signing below, the patient would certify that he or she has read and understood the terms stated in the Treatment Consent. It would also indicate that the patient has understood the scope of my services, the structure of the session, fees, confidentiality and other contractual information. Client name (please print): ___________________________________ Date: _______________ Client’s signature: ______________________________________________________________ Psychiatrist: ______¬¬_________________________________ Date: ______________ Psychiatrist signature:___________________________________________________________

Laws, Ethics Code, and Licensing Requirement of CaliforniaWafula1 (talk) 18:58, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
Laws and Regulations: Informed Consent Student’s Name Institution

Laws, Ethics Code, and Licensing Requirement of California The laws and regulations are fundamentally important because they are the requirement for licensing in the state of California (Board of Psychology, 2016). There are provisions from different California Business and Professions Code, the Title 16, penal code, Evidence Code, Family Code, Civil Code and Health and safety code that regulate the California Board of Psychology (Board of Psychology, 2016). These provisions have rules and regulations that help to monitor the licensing requirement for a psychologist in the state of California. It is important to understand that laws are a statute that is approved by the California Legislature and signed by the Governor of the state. The Board of Psychology who would implement and interprets as well as make specific the statutes in the Practice Act of the Board must adopt the regulations (Board of Psychology, 2016). These statutes would set the general legal requirement, and the regulation would make the requirements more specifics (Board of Psychology, 2016). For instance, it is important to understand that these statutes legally allow the Board to charge an application fee. The regulations are created and implemented by the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) in the Rulemaking process that differs from the legislative process. After the Rulemaking process, the Board would file the Notice of Proposed Changes with OAL and set a public notice for hearing that would allow the submission of written submitted and oral testimony (Board of Psychology, 2016). The public comments must be addressed and the language adopted by the Board, the Rulemaking file is approved by different boards especially with the Housing Agency, Consumer Service within the Department of Consumer Affairs (Board of Psychology, 2016). In some cases where the regulation has a fiscal impact, the file must be submitted to the Department of Finance for approval (Board of Psychology, 2016). The Rulemaking File is then submitted to OAL for review. Secretary of state would fill the new regulations, and it is effected on either January 1 or July 1 (Board of Psychology, 2016).

References Board of Psychology. (2016). Laws and Regulations. Retrieved from Board of Psychology: http://www.psychology.ca.gov/laws_regs/