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Ethical standard

Introduction about general principles and ethical standards


General principles

 Principle A (Beneficence and Nonmale ficence)


 Principle B (Fidelity and Responsibility)
 Principle C (Integrity)
 Principle D (Justice)
 Principle E (Respect for People’s Rights and Dignity)
GENERAL PINCIPLES

 General Principles, as opposed to Ethical Standards, are aspirational in


nature.
 Their intent is to guide and inspire psychologists toward the very highest
ethical ideals of the profession.
 General Principles, in contrast to Ethical Standards, do not represent
obligations and should not form the basis for imposing sanctions.
 Relying upon General Principles for either of these reasons distorts both
their meaning and purpose.
2. Competence

2.01 Boundaries of Competence

 (a) Psychologists provide services, teach, and conduct research with populations and
in areas only within the boundaries of their competence, based on their education,
training, supervised experience, consultation, study, or professional experience.

 (b) Where scientific or professional knowledge in the discipline of psychology


establishes that an understanding of factors associated with demographics.
psychologists have or obtain the training, experience, consultation, or supervision
necessary to ensure the competence of their services, or they make appropriate
referrals
Conti….

 (c) Psychologists planning to provide services, teach, or conduct


research involving populations, areas, techniques, or technologies new
to them undertake relevant education, training, supervised experience,
consultation, or study.

 (d) When assuming forensic roles, psychologists are or become


reasonably familiar with the judicial or administrative rules governing .
Conti…

2.02 Providing Services in Emergencies

 In emergencies, when psychologists provide services to individuals for


whom other mental health services are not available and for which
psychologists have not obtained the necessary training, psychologists
may provide such services in order to ensure that services are not
denied. The services are discontinued as soon as the emergency has
ended or appropriate services are available.
Conti….

2.04 Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments


 Psychologists’ work is based upon established scientific and professional
knowledge of the discipline.
.
Conti…

2.05 Delegation of Work to Others


 Psychologists who delegate work to employees, supervisees, or research
or teaching assistants or who use the services of others, such as
interpreters, take reasonable steps to
 Avoid delegating work to person who have multiple relationships, this avoid
exploitation of objectivity
 Authorized responsibilities to competent person only.
 Observation of the execution of these responsibilities
2.06 Personal Problems and Conflicts

 (a) Psychologists refrain from initiating an activity they know or should know that

there is a substantial likelihood that their personal problems will prevent them from

performing their work-related activities in a competent manner.

 (b) When psychologists become aware of personal problems that may interfere with

their performing work-related duties adequately, they take appropriate measures,

such as obtaining professional consultation or assistance, and determine whether

they should limit, suspend, or terminate their work-related duties


Case study

 A teaching psychologist who was undergoing outpatient treatment for a


life-threatening medical disorder found it increasingly difficult to prepare
lectures, grade papers, and mentor students effectively. The
psychologist consulted with the chair of the department, who agreed to
assign an experienced graduate teaching assistant for the lectures. The
psychologist also asked a colleague to serve as a consultant on the two
dissertations he was currently mentoring.

Mehwish Ishfaq
Was there any ethical issue?
Did they resole it?
If yes, then how?
Case study

Counselor treated a woman for six months with various adjustment issues
following a separation and upcoming divorce. Client’s attorney asked
therapist to testify that client should receive child custody of her 7 year-old.
Therapist lacked previous forensic experience or training but from the
witness stand he offered opinions about the adjustment of client and her
child. Client’s husband filed an ethical complaint against therapist on the
grounds that he lacked training in child work and he never interviewed the
child, thus he was negligent in offering an opinion. Furthermore, this
therapist did not attain information from another therapist who was seeing
the child, nor from the child’s father.
What ethical competencies identified?
Resolution?
Case study 1:

 Therapist performed a cognitive evaluation of an adult utilizing the Wechsler Adult


Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R), four years after the revised WAIS-III was
published. He responded, “They’re about the same, and the new kit is too
expensive.”

Case study 2:

 Counselor continued treating his child clients with long-term psychotherapy for
secondary reactive enuresis despite significant evidence that certain behavioral
treatments are very effective in a brief time. When confronted with this information,
he seemed surprised and then researched the professional literature
What is the common in both case studies?
And how this is common?
3. Human Relations

3.01 Unfair Discrimination


 In their work-related activities, psychologists do not engage in unfair
discrimination.
3.02 Sexual Harassment
 Psychologists do not engage in sexual harassment. Sexual harassment
is sexual solicitation, physical advances, or verbal or nonverbal conduct
that is sexual in nature
3.03 Other Harassment
 Psychologists do not knowingly engage in behavior that is harassing or demeaning to
persons with whom they interact in their work based on demographic factors.
3.04 Avoiding Harm
 (a) Psychologists take reasonable steps to avoid harming their clients/patients,
students, supervisees, research participants, organizational clients, and others with
whom they work, and to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable.
 (b) Psychologists do not participate in, facilitate, assist, or otherwise engage in
torture, defined as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or
mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person
3.05 Multiple Relationships

 (a) A multiple relationship occurs when a psychologist is in a professional role with a


person and

 (1) at the same time is in another role with the same person

 (2) at the same time is in a relationship with a person closely associated with or related to
the person with whom the psychologist has the professional relationship

 (3) promises to enter another relationship in the future with the person or a person closely
associated with or related to the person.
Multiple relationships that would not reasonably be expected to cause impairment or risk
exploitation or harm are not unethical.

 (b) If a psychologist finds that, due to unforeseen factors, a potentially harmful multiple
relationship has arisen, the psychologist takes reasonable steps to resolve it

 (c) When psychologists are required by law, institutional policy, or extraordinary


circumstances to serve in more than one role in judicial or administrative proceedings,
at the outset they clarify role expectations and the extent of confidentiality and
thereafter as changes occur.
3.06 Conflict of Interest
 Psychologists refrain from taking on a professional role
 (1) impair their objectivity, competence, or effectiveness in performing their functions as
psychologists or
 (2) expose the person or organization with whom the professional relationship exists to harm
or exploitation.
3.07 Third-Party Requests for Services
 psychologists attempt to clarify at the outset of the service the nature of the
relationship with all individuals or organizations involved. i.e. role of psychologist,
who is client, limits of confidentiality
3.08 Exploitative Relationships
 Psychologists do not exploit persons over whom they have supervisory, evaluative or
other authority such as clients/patients, students, supervisees, research participants,
and employees
 Multiple relationship
 Fee and financial arrangements
 Sexual Relationships with Students and Supervisees
 Sexual Intimacies with Current Therapy Clients/Patients

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