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- A suffering person’s well-being demands that mental health care providers act not on their own emotions, but rather deliberately focus on the best interests of the individuals, families, or communities they serve. This also means that professionals need to consider the interpersonal and cultural contexts in which people find themselves.
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THEREFORE, psychologists accept as fundamental the Principle of Competent Caring for the Well-Being of Persons and Peoples. In so doing, they accept the following related values: active concern for the well-being of individuals, families, groups, and communities; taking care to do no harm to individuals, families, groups, and communities;
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- Principle I Respect for the Dignity of Persons and Peoples
- Principle II Competent Caring for the Well-Being of Others
- Principle III Integrity
- Principle IV Professional and Scientific Responsibilities to Society
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Ethics is at the core of every discipline. The Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists speaks to the common moral framework that guides and inspires psychologists worldwide toward the highest ethical ideals in their professional and scientific work. Psychologists recognize that they carry out their activities within a larger s...
Respect for the dignity of persons is the most fundamental and universal ethical principle across geographical and cultural boundaries, and across professional disciplines. It provides the philosophical foundation for many of the other ethical principles put forward by professions. Respect for dignity recognizes the inherent worth of all human bein...
Competent caring for the well-being of others involves working for their benefit and, above all, trying to do no harm. It includes maximizing benefits, minimizing potential harm, and offsetting or correcting harm. Competent caring requires the application of knowledge and skills that are appropriate for the nature, and the social and cultural conte...
Integrity is vital to the advancement of scientific knowledge and its application, and to the maintenance of public confidence in psychologists. Integrity is based on honest, open, and accurate communications. It includes recognizing, monitoring, and managing potential biases, multiple relationships, and other conflicts of interest that could resul...
Psychology functions as a discipline within the context of human society. As a science and a profession, it has responsibilities to society. These responsibilities include contributing to the knowledge about human behavior and to people’s understanding of themselves and others, and using such knowledge to improve the condition of individuals, famil...
Since its release for consultation in 2005, the first draft of the Universal Declaration has yielded thoughtful comments and helpful suggestions from individual psychologists and psychology organizations. Every effort has been made to integrate those in this new draft. As a result, the first draft of the Universal Declaration has been modified in a...
Dec 6, 2018 · As they state: “When communities of psychologists accept responsibility for supporting the functioning and professional competence of colleagues, problems of professional competence will be less frequent and less likely to harm consumers, the profession, and psychologists themselves” (pp. 557-558).
- 01 Misuse of Psychologists' Work. If psychologists learn of misuse or misrepresentation of their work, they take reasonable steps to correct or minimize the misuse or misrepresentation.
- 01 Boundaries of Competence. (a) Psychologists provide services, teach, and conduct research with populations and in areas only within the boundaries of their competence, based on their education, training, supervised experience, consultation, study, or professional experience.
- 01 Unfair Discrimination. In their work-related activities, psychologists do not engage in unfair discrimination based on age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, or any basis proscribed by law.
- 01 Maintaining Confidentiality. Psychologists have a primary obligation and take reasonable precautions to protect confidential information obtained through or stored in any medium, recognizing that the extent and limits of confidentiality may be regulated by law or established by institutional rules or professional or scientific relationship.
May 11, 2022 · Principle II: Responsible Caring, can be divided into three main values: competence (i.e., proving oneself to be skillful, knowledgeable and able to practice); beneficence (doing good, when possible) and non-maleficence (avoiding harm, when possible).
May 31, 2020 · Clinical psychologists aim to reduce distress and improve well-being for people across the lifespan with a range of psychosocial difficulties, by drawing on different assessment, formulation and intervention methods, as outlined by the British Psychological Society (BPS). 1 This may involve working directly, indirectly or through consultation, w...
Nov 25, 2008 · Mental health practitioners have an ethical duty to provide competent care, based on the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence. For physicians, competent care includes diagnosis as well as treatment of illness.
