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| Principle - Beneficence and Nonmaleficence |
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| benefit and do no harm; resolve conflicts by avoiding or minimizing harm; self-care of psychologist; safeguard the rights and welfare of others/animals used in research; guard against factors that may influence them (e.g. money, fame). |
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| Principle - Fidelity and Responsibility |
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| establish trust in relationships; aware of professional and scientific responsibility to society; uphold standards of conduct, clarify roles, accept responsibility for actions, manage conflicts of interest; professional consultation and supervision; concern for ethical compliance of colleagues; pro bono work. |
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| promote accuracy, honesty, truthfulness; keep promises and avoid unwise or unclear commitments; ethically justifiable deception - minimize harm and correct consequences of deception. |
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| fairness and justice, entitle all to access, benefits and equality of service of psychology; ensure potential biases, boundaries of competence and limitations of expertise do not result in unjust practice. |
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| Respect of other people's rights and dignity |
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| respect individual's right to privacy, confidentiality and self-determination, especially in those with impaired decision-making; respect diversity, consider impacting factors and eliminate personal biases; consider all diversity factors and differences (age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language and SES) |
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| Rules are enforceable for psychologists; if ethics code sets higher standard than law, meet higher standard; if ethics code conflicts with law, psychologist make known commitment to ethics code and try to resolve conflict in responsible manner consistent with human rights; if neither law nor ethics resolves issue, psych should consider other professional materials, their own conscience and consultation. |
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| Standard 1 - resolving ethical issues |
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try to settle conflicts reasonably with integrity:
misuse of psychologists' work; conflicts between ethics and law; conflicts between ethics and organizational demands; informal resolution of ethical violations; reporting ethical violations;cooperating with ethics committees; improper complaints; unfair discrimination against complainants and respondents. |
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know boundaries of competence and limitations - refer out as needed; provide emergency service until referral can be made, seek consultation as needed.
Boundaries of competence; providing services in emergencies; maintaining/acquiring competence; bases for scientific and professional judgment; delegation of work to others; personal problems and conflicts. |
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| standard 3 - human relations |
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respect others, avoid discrimination, harassment, harm. Caution with multiple relationships that blunt objectivity. If 3rd party requests services, psych clarifies role.
Unfair discrimination, sexual/other harassment, avoid harm, multiple relationships, conflict of interest, 3rd party services, exploitative relationships, cooperation with other professionals, informed consent, psychological services delivered to/thru other organizations. |
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| standard 4 - privacy and confidentiality |
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| maintaining confidentiality, discussing limits of confidentiality, recording, minimizing intrusions on privacy, disclosures, consultations, use of confidential information for didactic or other purposes. |
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| standard 5 - advertising and other public statements |
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| avoiding false or deceptive statements; statements by others; descriptions of workshops and non-degree granting educational programs; media presentations; testimonials; in-person solicitations. |
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| standard 6 - record keeping and fees |
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| documentation of professional and scientific work; maintenance, dissemination and disposal of confidential records of professional and scientific work; withholding records for nonpayment; fees and financial arrangements; bartering with clients; accuracy in reports to payors and funding sources; referrals and fees. |
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| standard 7 - education and training |
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| design and description of education and training programs; accuracy in teaching; student disclosure of personal information; mandatory individual or group therapy; assessing student and supervisee performance; sexual relationships with students and supervisees. |
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| standard 8 - research and publication |
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| institutional approval (IRB); informed consent; informed consent for recording voices/images; client/patient, student, subordinate research participants; dispensing with informed consent for research; offering inducements for research participation; deception. |
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| bases for and use of assessments; informed consent; release of test data; test construction; interpreting assessment results; assessment by unqualified persons; obsolete tests and outdated test results; test scoring and interpretation services; explaining results; maintaining test security. |
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| informed consent; therapy involving couples/families; group therapy; providing therapy to those served by others; sexual intimacies with current/former therapy clients, or relatives/significant others thereof; therapy with former sexual partners; interruption of therapy; terminating therapy |
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