ETHICAL CONFLICTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
3rd Edition
Donald N. Bersoff
American Psychological Association, 2003

LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Learn the basic ethical issues involved in the various roles psychologists play
• Understand that the primary emphasis of a profession’s code of ethics is to protect the public that the profession serves
• Understand that lack of awareness or misunderstanding of an Ethical Standard is not itself a defense to a charge of unethical conduct
• Realize that more than 50% of psychologists may intentionally violate a law or formal ethical principle based on a sample of senior psychologists
• Characterize “virtue ethics” offered as an additional approach to ethical analysis
• Learn when the general obligation to protect client’s confidential information is overridden
• Learn that an argument for criminalization of psychotherapist- patient sex is that it could deter some types of exploitative therapists
• Recognize that the four general exceptions to parental consent for the treatment of minors was designed to clarify rights but cause confusion among practitioners
• Learn what the APA refers to as “test user qualifications”
• Learn why disclosing psychological test material to a court is complicated
• Learn what the primary objection to web-based online assessments is
• Learn when a clinician would be vulnerable to a lawsuit alleging malpractice in the handling of a patient’s level of risk
• Learn whether telephone or email therapy is currently prohibited by the APA
• Understand what the law requires experts to disclose at a trial
• Learn the term for siding with the client-offender in virtually every instance
• Learn what form of predictive testimony of future violence might be considered ethical
• Learn what obligations a psychologist or therapist has to a managed care entity and his/her patients

ISHK is offering three courses for this book: All chapters for 18 credits; the first five chapters for 9 credits; and the last five chapters for 9 credits.

Chapter 1: Ethics Codes and How They are Enforced; Chapter 2: How Ethics are Applied; Chapter 3: Learning Ethics; Chapter 4: Confidentiality, Privilege, and Privacy; Chapter 5: Multiple Relationships; Chapter 6: Psychological Assessment; Chapter 7: Therapy and Other Forms of Intervention; Chapter 8: Academia: Research, Teaching, and Supervision; Chapter 9: Forensic Settings; Chapter 10: The Business of Psychology

Donald N. Bersoff is an expert ethics educator, psychologist, and attorney. He has been the lead attorney in some of the landmark ethics cases in psychology.

18 CE credits (Chaps 1-10); 353 pages

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