"Truly ethical behavior requires more than simply avoiding action by a disciplinary body. For psychologists, behaving ethically is a positive goal that involves striving to reach our highest ethical ideals. Guided by APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct, Knapp, VandeCreek, and Fingerhut provide short sketches illustrating the standards that psychologists must follow, and show how psychologists can actualize their personal values and ethical acumen in their daily work. They discuss a variety of ethically tricky areas for psychologists, including: patient confidentiality; inappropriate relationships with patients; financial issues; informed consent; forensic and legal issues. Readers will learn how to attend to their own emotional well-being, how to use risk-reduction strategies as well as a five-step decision-making model for difficult ethical quandaries, and how to base their professional conduct on overarching ethical values. This third edition of Practical Ethics for Psychologists: A Positive Approach includes new findings on the science of morality and on working with morally diverse clients, and ethical issues regarding the use of social media and other online communications"--The publisher.

Revised edition of Practical ethics for psychologists, c2012.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- The legal floor and positive ethics -- Foundations of ethical behavior -- Ethical decision making -- Competence -- Informed consent, empowered collaboration, or shared decision making -- Boundaries and multiple relationships -- Confidentiality, privileged communications, and record keeping -- Life-endangering patients -- Forensic psychology -- Assessment -- Special topics -- Business issues -- Psychologists as educators -- Consultation and clinical supervision -- Research and scholarship -- Afterward -- References -- Index -- About the authors.