Intro to Ethics of Professional Psychologist

==What is Ethics?==

  • “Éthos”(gr. Εθοζ) –– habit, custom
  • “Èthos” (gr. Ηθοζ) – living place, belief, moral, inner stance
  • MORALITAS (lat.) – character, modus, appropriate behavior → MORALITY
  • Moral theory
    • General ethics
    • Personal ethics
    • Sector ethics
  • What is good/bad
  • Part of the theory of value
  • First mentioned by Aristotle

==Psychology==

  • scientific discipline
    • Knowledge and skills built up from research and practice
  • services to clients
    • Ethics of developing knowledge and actions taken to apply it to meet demands for services to be delivered to the public

@@Psychology as scientific discipline@@

  • When doing research with human participants, should we employ different standards that when with animals?
  • religion, culture, expectations
  • values
  • actions of researchers

@@Interaction@@

  • topic
    • Are there topics that should not be studied?
    • Are there contexts that can raise ethical questions?
  • method
    • Individual – interpersonal
    • High- low intrusiveness
    • The vulnerability of a participant
  • dissemination
    • %%Publication and dissemination%%
    • ^^Integrity^^
      • Exact
      • Honest
      • Clear
    • ^^Different means for different public^^
  • “End justifies means?”
    • non-ethical topic but necessary results?
  • Biases of psychologists
    • liberal vs conservative
    • representation