Ethics in Psychology

1 - Resolving Ethical Issues

1.01 Misuse of Psychologists' Work

1.02 Conflicts Between Ethics and Law, Regulations, or Other Governing Legal Authority

1.03 Conflicts Between Ethics and Organizational Demands

1.04 Informal Resolution of Ethical Violations

1.05 Reporting Ethical Violations

1.06 Cooperating with Ethics Committees

1.07 Improper Complaints

1.08 Unfair Discrimination Against Complainants and Respondents

2 - Competence

2.01 Boundaries of Competence

2.02 Providing Services in Emergencies

2.03 Maintaining Competence

2.04 Bases for Scientific and Professional Judgments

2.05 Delegation of Work to Others

2.06 Personal Problems and Conflicts

3 – Human Relations

3.01 Unfair Discrimination

3.02 Sexual Harassment

3.03 Other Harassment

3.04 Avoiding Harm

2016 Amendment to 3.04 Avoiding Harm

• (a) Psychologists take reasonable steps to avoid harming their clients/patients, students, supervisees, research participants, organizational clients, and others with whom they work, and to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable.

• (b) Psychologists do not participate in, facilitate, assist, or otherwise engage in torture, defined as any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person, or in any other cruel, inhuman, or degrading behavior that violates 3.04(a).

3.05 Multiple Relationships

3.06 Conflict of Interest

3.07 Third-Party Requests for Services

3.08 Exploitative Relationships

3.09 Cooperation with Other Professionals

3.10 Informed Consent

3.11 Psychological Services Delivered to or Through Organizations

3.12 Interruption of Psychological Services

4 – Privacy and Confidentiality

4.01 Maintaining Confidentiality

4.02 Discussing the Limits of Confidentiality

4.03 Recording

4.04 Minimizing Intrusions on Privacy

4.05 Disclosures

4.06 Consultations

4.07 Use of Confidential Information for Didactic or

5 – Advertising and Other Public Statements

5.01 Avoidance of False or Deceptive Statements

5.02 Statements by Others

5.03 Descriptions of Workshops and Non-Degree- Granting Educational Programs

5.04 Media Presentations

5.05 Testimonials

5.06 In-Person Solicitation

9.05 Test Construction

9.06 Interpreting Assessment Results

9.07 Assessment by Unqualified Persons

9.08 Obsolete Tests and Outdated Test Results

9.09 Test Scoring and Interpretation Services

9.10 Explaining Assessment Results

9.11 Maintaining Test Security

10 - Therapy

10.01 Informed Consent to Therapy

10.02 Therapy Involving Couples or Families

10.03 Group Therapy

10.04 Providing Therapy to Those Served by Others

10.05 Sexual Intimacies with Current Therapy Clients/Patients

10.06 Sexual Intimacies with Relatives or Significant Others of Current Therapy Clients/Patients

10.07 Therapy with Former Sexual Partners

10.08 Sexual Intimacies with Former Therapy Clients/Patients

10.09 Interruption of Therapy

10.10 Terminating Therapy

7 – Education and Training

7.01 Design of Education and Training Programs

7.02 Descriptions of Education and Training Programs

7.03 Accuracy in Teaching

7.04 Student Disclosure of Personal Information

7.05 Mandatory Individual or Group Therapy

7.06 Assessing Student and Supervisee Performance

7.07 Sexual Relationships with Students and Supervisees

8 – Research and Publication

8.01 Institutional Approval

8.02 Informed Consent to Research

8.03 Informed Consent for Recording Voices and Images in Research

8.04 Client/Patient, Student, and Subordinate Research Participants

8.05 Dispensing with Informed Consent for Research

8.06 Offering Inducements for Research Participation

8.07 Deception in Research

8.08 Debriefing

8.09 Humane Care and Use of Animals in Research

8.10 Reporting Research Results

8.11 Plagiarism

8.12 Publication Credit

8.13 Duplicate Publication of Data

8.14 Sharing Research Data for Verification

8.15 Reviewers