Ethics in Psychology Professional Standards and Cases

by Koocher, Gerald P.; Keith-Spiegel, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780195092011
• ISBN10: 0195092015
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-12
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Psychologists today must deal with a broad range of ethical issues--from charging fees to maintaining a client's confidentiality, and from conducting research to respecting clients, colleagues, and students. As the field of psychology has grown in size and scope, the role of ethics has become more important and complex whether the psychologist is involved in teaching, counseling, research, or practice. Now this most widely read and cited ethics text in psychology has been revised to reflect the ethics questions and dilemmas that psychologists encounter in their everyday work.Ethics inPsychologyhas been completely updated in response to evolving trends in psychological research and practice, as well as extensive changes in the American Psychological Association's ethics code. Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia Keith-Spiegel take a practical, commonsense approach to ethics in modern-day psychological practice, and offer constructive suggestions for both preventing problems and resolving ethical predicaments. In this book, their main intent is to present the full range of contemporary ethical issues in psychology as not only relevant and intriguing, but also as integral and unavoidable aspects of the profession. The authors make extensive use of actual case studies in order to illustrate how the APA guidelines apply to specific situations, such as fee setting, advertising for clients, research ethics, sexual attraction, classroom ethics, managed care issues, confidentiality, and much more. The most recent ethics code of the American Psychological Association (1992) is used here only as a starting point. The authors go well beyond the APA code and incorporate the input of many experts. In addition to the analysis of a wide variety of general situations, new problematic areas are identified and explored. The book includes two appendixes - Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, adopted by American Psychological Association, Rules and Procedures of the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association - both in an easy-to-use format. In addition, each chapter lists summary guidelines along with current and valuable references. Highly readable, the book unites a straightforward, lively writing style with humorous anecdotes that highlight the human side of ethics and make the book a pleasure to read. Ethics in Psychology will be an indispensable guide to ethical decision-making for all psychologists and students in psychology.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

1 On Being an Ethical Psychologist	3	(24)
2 Enforcement of Ethical Conduct	27	(27)
3 Knowing Thyself: Competence and Credentials	54	(24)
4 Ethical Obligations in Psychotherapy	78	(19)
5 Ethics in Psychotherapy: Techniques	97	(18)
6 Privacy, Confidentiality, and Record Keeping	115	(30)
7 Psychological Assessment: Testing Tribulations	145	(26)
8 Multiple Role Relationships and Conflicts of Interest	171	(30)
9 Attraction, Romance, and Sexual Intimacies	201	(33)
10 Money Matters and Managed Care	234	(25)
11 Psychologists in the Marketplace	259	(25)
12 Presenting Psychology to the Public	284	(28)
13 Relationships with Colleagues, Supervisees, and Employees	312	(28)
14 Ethical Dilemmas in Specific Work Settings: Juggling Porcupines	340	(20)
15 Psychologists in the Legal Sysgem: Tort and Retort	360	(19)
16 Psychologists as Teachers: Classroom Conundrums	379	(26)
17 Scholarly Publication and Research Ethics	405	(36)
Appendix A: Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct	441	(22)
Appendix B: Rules and Procedures	463	(34)
Index	497