A Reply to Mills. Record Keeping Bemister, Taryn B; Dobson, Keith S
Canadian psychology = Psychologie canadienne,
05/2012, Letnik:
53, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article was written in response to a commentary (
Mills, 2012
) on our recently published article on record keeping (
Bemister & Dobson, 2011
). In Mills' commentary, he argues that ...psychologists, particularly those working in the private sector, should not implement the recommendations presented in our original article. This article responds to these arguments. In particular, the current article emphasizes the distinction between privilege and confidentiality, clarifies client rights to personal information in psychologists' records, and discusses the need to improve current record keeping practices. The purpose of this article is to elicit further discussion regarding best practices in record keeping, a discussion that has been relatively static in scientific journals throughout the preceding decades.
Cet article a été écrit en réaction à un commentaire (
Mills, 2012
) au sujet d'un article que nous avons publié récemment sur la tenue de dossiers (
Bemister & Dobson, 2011
). Dans son commentaire, Mills avance que les psychologues, en particulier ceux du secteur privé, ne devraient pas mettre en vigueur les recommandations présentées dans notre article original. Le présent article répond à ses arguments. Plus précisément, il met en relief la distinction à faire entre privilège et confidentialité, clarifie les droits du client à l'information personnelle dans les dossiers du psychologue, et discute du besoin d'améliorer les pratiques actuelles en matière de tenue de dossiers. Le but de l'article est de susciter la discussion au sujet des pratiques exemplaires en matière de tenue de dossiers, discussion qui est relativement statique dans les revues scientifiques depuis quelques décennies.
Ethical practice is one of the fundamental characteristics of a profession. The development of common codes was an early aim of the European Federation of Professional Psychologists Associations ...(EFPPA), now the European Federation of Psychologists Associations (EFPA), which sought to develop common standards across Member Associations. This paper describes: the development of the Meta-Code of Ethics, approved in 1995; the subsequent review of its fitness for purpose, leading to the second edition in 2005; and other guidance on ethical practice, including procedures for the evaluation of alleged unethical practice and for determining corrective actions to be taken, including mediation. The success of the Meta-code is reviewed, including its contribution to current initiatives to develop universal ethical practice by psychologists, in the context of new challenges arising from developments within psychology and from changes within society, including concerns about national security.
Ethical considerations in animal studies Mehdi Ghasemi; Ahmad Reza Dehpour
Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine,
07/2009, Letnik:
2
Journal Article
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Odprti dostop
Scientists undoubtedly owe their great advance and knowledge in biomedical research to millions of animals which they use every year in often-times extremely painful and distressing scientific ...procedures. One of the important issues in scientific research is to consider ethics in animal experimentation. Since this is a crucial issue in the modern era of medical research, in this paper, we have provided some guidelines (most of which have been adopted from Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Animals provided by American Association of Psychologists) which could be useful for researchers to design studies on a variety of animals.
Every year many organizations formulate a Code of Ethics (COE) but when it comes to implementing, it does not achieve the desired purposes. Ineffectiveness of COEs can stem from different factors and ...surely, one of them is bad formulation. This research was conducted to identify the barriers to effective formulation of COEs in one of the main state universities of medical sciences in Iran.
A qualitative approach using thematic analysis in three stages of descriptive coding, interpretative coding and overarching themes was adopted to analyze data collected through 27 semi-structured interviews. This study was conducted in 2014-15 at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Totally 135 descriptive themes, 12 interpretive themes and 3 overarching themes emerged through analyzing interviews.
In order to have an implementable COE, 12 barriers in three categories including "goal-setting", "approach" and "content" of the COE, must be removed. In "goal-setting", real cultural conditions of the medical university must be considered. Moreover, the COE must be in response to perceived internal needs and its philosophy must be clear for all members of the university. Besides, the formulation "approach" of the COEs must be specialist, participatory and expertised. Finally, in "content", different stakeholders with diverse values, levels of knowledge and needs should be carefully addressed. In addition, it is proposed to emphasize religious and humane values to encourage participation of people. As a final point, the university should avoid imitation in the content of the COE, and conceptualize the values in motivating, inspirational and guiding words.
Ethical considerations in animal studies Ghasemi, Mehdi; Dehpour, Ahmad Reza
Journal of medical ethics and history of medicine,
01/2009, Letnik:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Scientists undoubtedly owe their great advance and knowledge in biomedical research to millions of animals which they use every year in often-times extremely painful and distressing scientific ...procedures. One of the important issues in scientific research is to consider ethics in animal experimentation. Since this is a crucial issue in the modern era of medical research, in this paper, we have provided some guidelines (most of which have been adopted from Guidelines for Ethical Conduct in the Care and Use of Animals provided by American Association of Psychologists) which could be useful for researchers to design studies on a variety of animals.
Abstract Code of ethics has become a significant concept as regards to the business world. That is why occupational organizations have developed their own codes of ethics over time. In this study, ...primarily the compatibility classification of the accounting code of ethics belonging to the IFAC (The International Federation of Accountants) is carried out on the basis of the action plans assessing the levels of usage by the 175 IFAC national accounting organizations. It is determined as a result of the classification that 60,6% of the member organizations are applying the IFAC code in general, the rest 39,4% on the other hand, is not applying the code at all. With this classification, the hypothesis propounding that “The national accounting organizations in highly corrupt countries would be less likely to adopt the IFAC ethic code than those in very clean countries,” is tested using the “Corruption Perception Index-CPI” data. It is determined that the findings support this relevant hypothesis.
Codes of ethics exist in many, if not the majority, of all large U.S. companies today. But how the impact of these written codes affect managerial attitudes and behavior is still not clearly ...documented or explained. This study takes a step in that direction by proposing that attention should shift from the codes themselves as the sources of ethical behavior to the persons whose behavior is the focus of these codes. In particular, this study investigates the role of code familiarity as a factor impacting the influence of an ethics code on manager behavior. Data collected from 286 executives from companies in the direct selling industry are used to test hypotheses (1) that the perceived usefulness of ethics codes is positively related to the degree of familiarity with the code, and (2) that ethical climate as assessed by managers is positively related to the code's perceived usefulness. Both hypotheses are supported, and their implications and further research directions are discussed.
College and university academic deans must comply with two sets of professional regulations. As faculty members, they must adhere to their institution's internally generated code of ethics. As ...administrators and agents of their institution, they must meet the fiduciary duties of diligence and loyalty. Both sets of regulations are similar in the obligations they impose on a dean, the degree of care they demand of a dean in the execution of those obligations, the nature of a breach of those obligations by a dean, the procedures by which the breach of an obligation is addressed, and the remedies available to the institution against a dean following a breach. Colleges and universities should develop and publish both an ethics code and a fiduciary code. Both sets of regulations, however, should avoid common shortcomings. Ethics codes should not be too specific or too general, overly simplistic or highly complex, or outstripped by the rapidly changing world of academia. A codification of fiduciary duties should avoid the problems of poor definition or ambiguity. Developing an institutional code of professional responsibility that incorporates both ethical and fiduciary responsibilities would provide an academic dean with a more comprehensive benchmark for professional expectations and responsibilities. The interplay between the two sets of complementary regulations would further clarify the professional expectation of an academic dean and may also ameliorate some of the shortcomings inherent in an ethics code.PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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