APA Code Of Ethics

The Code of Ethics for Educators and the APA Code of Ethics are similar to each other because they instill rules that are put in place to protect the clientele of professionals as well as the students and the educators. These codes are also here to establish regulation for the professionals to withhold. In APA code 3.04 Avoiding Harm is relevant to the 2nd standard Conduct with students. The standard and code both relate to maintain a professional relationship with the client and or student. Standard 2 includes avoiding physical, verbal, and endangerment with a student and the code Avoiding harm also refers to practicing avoidance of physical, mental harm, etc. Comprehensively, educators should always preserve a professional relationship with

all students regardless if they are in or outside of the classroom. Likewise psychologist take the necessary steps to evade harming their clients/patients, students, supervisees, research participants, organizational clients, and others with whom they work, and to decrease impairment where it is foreseeable and unpreventable.
Furthermore there are differences that exist within The Code of Ethics for Educators and the APA Code of Ethics. Within the Code of Ethics for Educators Standard 1: Legal Compliance an educator must abide by federal, state, and local laws and statutes. This encompasses reporting because educators are required to report breaches and violations of the standards. The Code of Ethics for Educators does not interfere with the law because even though confidentiality standards a put in place educators are obliged to report. The APA Code of Ethics may sometimes collide with the law. In this case sometimes a psychologist may be forced to choose between either abiding by the law or chose to comply with the APA code of ethics.