ETHICS IN PSYCHOLOGY AND THE MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS
Professional Standards and Cases, 3rd Edition
Gerald Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiegel
Oxford University Press, 2008
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand the principles of ethics in psychology and their application through numerous case examples
• Examine many of the ethical questions and dilemmas that arise in practice, research, and teaching
• Recognize the dilemma that clinicians face in trying to protect the rights and fulfill legitimate needs of all the constituents involved
• Examine fee setting, research ethics, sexual attraction, managed care issues, confidentiality, and other issues
• Learn how to confront observed unethical conduct in others
• Take a practical, commonsense approach to ethics issues in one’s practice
• Prevent problems and resolve ethical situations in constructive ways
• Know the agencies that are responsible for evaluating reports of unethical or unlawful behavior by psychologists
• Learn how to lessen the possibility of ethical dilemmas over confidentiality in family therapy
• Learn the challenges that must be monitored when working with managed care entities
• Learn how clinicians can overlook potential ethical violations in bartering situations because of personal needs or desires
• Learn ethical steps for psychologists who are publishing self-help material
• Know when to give acknowledgement or co-authorship to another individual in a scholarly publication
• Learn who determines whether a psychologist is considered an “expert witness”
• Know how long the APA recommends therapists keep the full record of all adult patients, as well as, some summary of the record
• Learn the supervisors’ characteristics and training responsibilities
Gerald P Koocher is Associate Professor of Psychology and Executive Director of the Linda Pollin Institute at Harvard Medical School and Chief Psychologist at Boston's Children's Hospital.
Patricia Keith-Spiegel is Voran Distinguished Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Director of the Center for the Teaching of Integrity at Ball State University.
17 CE credits; 496 pages
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