ETHICS IN PSYCHOTHERAPY Table of Contents I.H

Unethical and incompetent behavior.........................2

Development of ethical codes...............................2

II. Ethics and Responsibility..................................3

Ethical responsibility within psychotherapy................4

APA's solutions............................................4

Ethical Principles of Psychologists........................4

Principles A-F.............................................4

Code of Conduct............................................5

Ethical Standards 1-8......................................5

Virtue ethics..............................................5

III. Reactions to Regulations...................................6

Autonomy vs rules for conduct..............................6

Ethics defined.............................................7

Unethical therapists.......................................7

IV. Ethical Issues and Dilemmas................................7

Power relationships........................................8

Sexual offense statements..................................8

Third-party payments.......................................9

Informed concept..........................................10

Privacy, confidentiality, and privilege...................10

V. The Supervisory Relationship..............................12

VI. Ethical Violations and Lessons Learned............

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s which results in only cosmetic changes to pacify the public and lawmakers. Other problems with regulation include difficulty with conflicting values and ambiguity within the regulations. A uniform or national code of laws for the United States is lacking, laws vary from state to state with inadequate direction for therapists regarding ethical codes. Standards and codes may be wordy, confusing, and contradictory (Van Hoose & Kottler, 1985, pp. 9-15). Ethics is defined as a philosophical discipline concerned with human conduct and moral decision making. It searches for principles to guide decisions regarding right and wrong and it provides guidelines for solving moral dilemmas. All therapists are ethical philosophers because they hold personal beliefs regarding the nature of human beings with reference to what is good and bad for them and how to promote the good. Practitioners personally organize knowledge, standards, practice methods, and ethical codes into a theory and convert these thoughts into a pragmatic theory-in-use; each therapist has a personalized ethical theory regarding right and wrong. Experience helps the therapist continually refine their ethical theory (Van Hoose & Kottler, 3, 20-23). The unethical ther
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