I. History....................................................2
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....................12
Sexual boundary violations................................12
VI. Conclusions...............................................16
This research paper presents ethics in psychotherapy with an emphasis on the importance of strict ethics in the field of psychology. Ethics history, ethical responsibility, reactions to ethical regulations, ethical issues and dilemmas, supervisory relationships, and ethical violations with lessons learned are discussed.<...