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Counselor / Addiction

Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct

3.00 - CE credit hours training

$18.75 - Cost of course

This page contains important information about the course, including training details, a comprehensive course description, learning objectives, and source references. We encourage you to review each section to gain a clear understanding of the course content, educational goals, and supporting materials before beginning your training and taking the POST TEST below.

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct

Follow the link below, read the material and then take the 18 question post test

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Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct

18 Questions

1. From "Article 1 - Introduction and Applicability": The APA Ethics Code applies to which of the following activities?
2. From "Principles": Which of the following is NOT enumerated as a "Principle of Ethical Psychologists"?
3. From "Resolving Ethical Issues": The Illinois Psychological Association has brought up an ethics complaint against a psychologist on charges of sexual activity with a current client. You are a psychologist who is considering employing this psychologist. Under the APA Code of Ethics, can you deny the psychologist employment based solely on the ethics complaint?
4. From "Competence": A psychologist who owns a clinic delegates supervision of graduate students to a fellow psychologist. The two have supervised graduate students together in the past, and the employing psychologist is confident that the fellow psychologist can perform supervision competently. Must the employing psychologist still monitor whether the supervising psychologist performs these services competently?
5. From "Human Relations": A psychologist is engaging in a first session with a new adult client. The psychologist is aware that the client reads at a third grade level. Which would fulfill the psychologist's responsibilities in obtaining informed consent for treatment?
6. From "Human Relations": During the therapy process, a therapist promises to enter into another relationship with the client in the future. Is this considered unethical?
7. From "Privacy and Confidentiality": A psychologist is writing a book about PTSD treatment. She wants to include a particularly instructive case. She takes reasonable steps to disguise the person. Does she also need to obtain the person's consent?
8. From "Advertising and other Public Statements": A psychologist has developed an online program that therapists can use to help their clients with depression. The psychologist solicits testimonials from other clinicians who have used the program with clients. Under the Code of Ethics is this considered ethical?
9. From "Record Keeping and Fees": Under which of the following conditions can a psychologist use a collection agency to collect unpaid client fees?
10. From "Education and Training": A psychologist supervises a graduate student. The student is likely to ask for future employment references. Is it ethical for the psychologist to have a sexual relationship with the former student two years after the supervision has ended?
11. From "Research and Publications": When obtaining informed consent from research participants which of the following does the psychologist NOT have to inform the participant about?
12. From "Assessment": Psychologists may refrain from releasing test data to a client:
13. From "Therapy": It has been three years since the end of a therapy relationship between a psychologist and a client. Can the psychologist engage in sexual intimacies with the former client?
14. From "Therapy": A psychologist has been seeing a dependent client for approximately one year. It becomes clear to the psychologist that the client no longer needs the service and will not benefit from further therapy at this time. The therapist broaches the topic, and the client says he still wants to see the therapist. According to the Code of Ethics, what is the psychologist expected to do?
15. From "2010 Amendments": Section 1.02 was amended in 2010. Under the revised version, if a psychologist's ethical responsibilities conflict with law, regulations, or other governing legal authority, and he or she has been unable to resolve the conflict consistent with the General Principles and Ethical Standards of the Ethics Code, the psychologist may adhere to the requirements of the law, regulations, or other governing legal authority.
16. From "What you need to know about the new code-Protections for graduate students in therapy": There have been changes to the code regarding protections for graduate students in therapy. Under the changes, if therapy is required as part of a program, the program must allow students to select any therapist from outside the program.
17. From "Terminating Therapy": Psychologists have expressed concern about the _______ code; that by halting treatment of a threatening client they could be accused of abandonment.
18. From "Assessment standards": There have been changes to the code regarding assessment standards. If the validity and reliability of an assessment instrument has not been established regarding use with a particular population, the psychologist may not use the assessment with that population.
This course is not available for NBCC credit

The American Psychological Association adopted a new Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct in 2002 and added a small number of amendments in 2010. This course provides clinicians the opportunity to review this publication. In addition "What you need to know about the new code" highlights and explains changes incorporated into the 2002 code.
  • describe the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.
  • outline changes made to the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct in 2002 and 2010.
Public Domain This course is a public domain training.