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Like other forms of professional conduct, those functions that can be subsumed under the heading of quality assurance have come under increasing judicial scrutiny. Although peer review has borne the brunt of this scrutiny in the 1980s, peer review is not equivalent to quality assurance, nor is it the only such activity to evoke the concern of the courts. In psychological training and practice, the process of enhancing the probability that professional psychologists will provide services of good quality encompasses many activities. It begins much earlier in time than peer review, involves examination by persons and groups who may be external to psychology itself, and includes review not only of individual performance but of institutional performance as well.
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Bersoff, D.N., Kinports, K. (1988). Legal Considerations in Quality Assurance. In: Stricker, G., Rodriguez, A.R. (eds) Handbook of Quality Assurance in Mental Health. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5236-5_14
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