Code of ethics act as a promise to protect and support the safety of individuals in society, supports as a leading light it help the supporters of an occupation, resolve ethical problems and act as a protector the community. A code of ethics discloses and conserves the current viewpoint professionals on in what way to make ethical decisions. It stresses importance on obligation to moral values and vital beliefs. Application of a code of ethics helps us to guarantee that members of the profession will be accountable for their actions. It helps us to learn about the responsibility we have for ourselves, our colleagues and to the social structure of the profession. It is essential that the present and future psychologist should be aware …show more content…
Teaching of ethics includes the coverage of ethics in text books and ethical courses. It is described in the study that the analysis of the textbooks in psychology studies are one of the source of information about ethics for students in class room. Thus faculty needs to provide information about the ethical principles to make the students to be aware of the existing practices in psychology. Further Review of literature on Ethics justify that first of all the present courses are not covering the ethical principle as an integrated approach and the second concept is the when, where, and how the ethical issues can be incorporated in the course curriculum. researchers has suggested their own point of view, one of the suggestion is that entire set of principle should be presented as a separate ethic course to provide qualitative learning to the students and another is the use of case studies to illustrate the ethical principle this concept helps the students to understand the application of general concept to the real world but has the draw back as it does not help them to develop the broader picture of ethical principles. It is a challenge to discuss on ethics of teaching as some of the academic psychologist think that the ethical standards are only for practitioner rather than the …show more content…
Lot of literature is written about the situations of dilemma among the practicing psychologists for following the standards and code of ethics. The main areas covered are sexual harassment of students and treatment of students as researchers. There is barrier to be considered for effective teaching as teaching in an overcrowded class. This can be a bottle neck in the channel for imparting the knowledge as students and teachers won’t get much chance to interact with each other and share their opinions. Some of the Remarks presented on Selected Issues are stated are as Bending the rules for selected students: There is divided opinion about the bending rules for selected students as one group of psychologist consider this unethical and another treat this policy to be used in rare occasions. However this is a debatable issue and needs very careful outlook. There is divided opinion about the bending rules for selected students as one group of psychologist consider this unethical and another treat this policy to be used in rare occasions. However this is a debatable issue and needs very careful outlook. Little boundary blurring: Boundary violations are objectively compromising with ethics. They may be treated as blurring or unclear about code of ethics and Sexual relations with
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Sue, D. W., & Sue, D. (2013). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons
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From the reading “Ethical and Legal Issues in U.S. Education”, there were three points that that surprised me. One point was that it is so surprising to me that there are so many steps that a teacher, on tenure, must go through before they get fired. It makes it so difficult to be fired and such a long process that they will never be fired unless they commit a major crime and I believe that this should change. As a teacher, we need to be at the top of our game at all times, and teachers with tenure seem like they do not always have to in order to keep their job. It is also surprising to me that student teachers do not receive the same rights as normal teachers in some states. Student teachers are practicing to become a teacher one day, and
Jacob, S., Decker, D. M., & Hartshorne, T. S. (2010). Ethics and law for school psychologists
Sue, D.W., & Sue, D. (2013). Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice (6th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.
Ethics is the judgement and the moral actions used in interactions with cultures and society and its focus is on the client well-being. Ethics is defined by Remley and Herlihy (2010) in the counseling field as “professional behavioral and interactions” (p.4). Counselors do rely and are guide by Codes of Ethics. The role and relevance of the ethical principals, the ACA and AMHCA Code of Ethics are the base of the counseling profession. Without them this career would not have a guide on how the professionals should act and react professionally in all the different situations that are faced in this field.
Barry, Vincent, Olen, Jeffrey, & Van Camp, Julie C. Applying Ethics: A Text with Readings, Tenth Edition. Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011.
Ethics is a means of distinguishing between right and wrong, it focuses on ways to help people in general. Ethical standards can be defined in one way as researchers following the standards identified in the APA Ethics Code to protect the rights and welfare of research participants. As stated in the article, many psychologists during that time preformed highly unethical research experiments that went too far and violated both the code of ethics and standards. However, due to that we now have our most current ethical standards.
In psychology, ethics are important because they set boundaries and control the way psychology is used by a set of laws. Ethic codes mainly protect clients from misuse of psychology. Ethics are important because they refrain the psychologist from lying to a patient. They also give protection to the public, clients, and psychologist. Overall, ethics are used to protect the psychologist and client from harm, as well as give control to the behavior in order to ensure safe and effective treatment. http://www.efpa.be/ethics.htm
Strengths of the Ethical Decisions Making Model are Kitchener 's Critical Evaluation Model (1984), which involves understanding how ethical decision-making approaches play an important role in the ethical landscape of counseling. It involved the notions of loyalty, faithfulness, and honoring commitments (Kitchener, 1984). It’s best to form trust within the client/counselor relationship and implement faith in the growth of their therapeutic relationship. Kitchener (1984) proposes four goals to strength the model of increasing ethical sensitivity, improving ethical reasoning, developing ethical responsibility and tolerating ambiguity (Kitchener,
Ethical issues in a counseling practice lay the foundation of a therapist in practice. Ethics are at the center of how the counseling process functions and operates in a successful manner for the clients who seek help in such a setting. In order for the counseling profession to be ethical and hold professional recognition, there are many facets that need to be examined and outlined to make sure all counselors and practitioners are functioning at the highest level and withholding their duties required by the counseling profession. The first introduction so to speak of the area of ethics also happens to be one of the first steps in counseling, which is the informed consent. The informed consent provides the basis of what happens or will be happening in a counseling setting and serves to inform the client to their rights, responsibilities, and what to expect. Most importantly, the informed consent is in place for the client’s benefit. It also is important to understand that culture and environment play a role in the treatment of a client and how theories can positively or negatively impact this treatment. Therapists need to understand how to work within the context of a theory while being able to understand the individual in their own environment. Although theories are put into place to serve as a framework, there are also alternative ways to approach counseling, one example being evidence-based practice. Such an approach is very specific, which presents a series of solutions for counseling as a whole, but also brings forth many problems. Every approach or theory introduces ethical concerns that need to be taken into consideration by the entire counseling community and how each can positively and negatively affect clients and the pr...
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Ethics play a major part in individual daily lives. Whether it is in an individual career, business, or family there are ethical values. Based on cultural, economics and religious differences many time the standards of ethics may vary. Some ethical values may be stronger and others may have few rules/laws they may abide by. Ethics are based upon a persons or groups moral principles, as we know some peoples’ morals should be questioned. This is the reason that large organizations have set in place their own ethical principles that they want their members to follow. Any profession that deals with psychology not only follows the organizational ethical rules but that of the American Psychology Association (APA). The APA refers to the ethical guidelines, Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct. Students of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology also follow another set of ethical values known as the TCS Codes of Conduct. Both ethical guidelines focus on the “do’s and don’ts” of the psychology world and that of the school. Both altos discuss at length the consequences of an individual