Integrity and

Professional
Ethics
Week 1
Course presentation: contents,
dynamics, and examination
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Assessment
EVALUATION CODE DETAIL WEEK WEIGHT
Diagnostic DE Prior Knowledge evaluation
evaluation Week 2 0%
Continuous AC1 Case analysis using the Ethical Principles of
assessment 1 Psychologists and Code of Conduct (APA) Week 5 12%
Continuous AC 2 Case analysis using the Code of Ethics and
assessment 2 Deontology (Professional Association of Week 7 12%
Psychologists of Peru)
Midterm ME Exam
evaluation Week 8 20%
Continuous AC3 Forum discussion about preventive practices
assessment 3 to reduce research misconduct Week 10 12%
Continuous AC4 Presentation about ethical dilemmas
assessment 4 regarding special groups treatment Week 12 12%
Continuous AC5 Interview of a psychologist and presentation
assessment 5 about an ethical dilemma in a specific field of
psychological therapy (psychoanalysis, Week 14 12%
Cognitive behavioral therapy, Systemic
therapy, etc.)
Final evaluation FE Exam Week 16 20%
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Recommendations for the course

• Be on time. We will start 5 minutes past the said time

• Engage in discussion and activities

• Be responsible with deadlines

• If your english is not that good, translate and read the

material before the class to ensure your learning process
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A short time Quiz

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Module 1: Ethics Theories
Concepts related to the professional
psychologist and their “ethos”
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Learning outcomes

By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

• Explain in their own words the main concepts related to profesional

ethics in Psychology
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Prior knowledge

Stanley Milgram

Experiments on obedience
(starting in 1961)

Source: Psychology Unlocked

Source: Wikipedia
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Prior knowledge

John Watson

Little Albert
experiment
Source: Sociedad Española de Source: New Scientist
Historia de la Psicología
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Prior knowledge

Albert Bandura
Bobo Doll Experiment

Source: Online Psychology Degree

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Let’s reflect on this

• What do these cases have in common?

• Why are these behaviors ‘unethical’?

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Ethics

Validate or
Rationality legitimate human
actions
ains t s ubjectivity
Ag

“Rationally, universally, is this right or wrong?”

Adapted from Franca-Tarragó (2001)

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A recent example of the need for rationality

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democracy!
They are repressor and
genocides!
Source: El Comercio
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Professional ethics

“Rationally, universally, is this right or wrong in this profession?”

Attitudes, ways of judging

professional behaviors and
dilemmas

Adapted from Franca-Tarragó (2001)

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A few questions to be asked…

As a Psychologist, what are the

core values of my practice?

how can i maximize the good by

doing the right thing?

Is there any viable middle

ground in this dialemma?
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Some reasons to pay attention

• Most of the situation that can happen around your professional

career have an an ethical connotation or are ethical in nature.

• Ethical dilemmas are more common than you expect

• Not necessarely as difficult as those exposed but realative to what

you do now.

• Having an idea, and posible a line of action,

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Some examples to put theory into work

“You have tried to remain objective and compassionate for

the last 4 months, but you dread this client’s appointment.
He calls you “Shrink,” which you find annoying. The sexist
and racist comments he interjects into the therapy hour are
the most aggravating of all. You want to dump him, but worry
you might be faulted for abandonment given that he has
many issues requiring therapeutic intervention”

Source: Koocher & Keith-Spiegel (2016, p. 2)

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Some examples for you to believe me

“Your new client always looks brooding and is difficult to engage.

He is new to this country, is anxious, and sought therapy at his
brother’s insistence. He sits sullenly, answering your questions
with few words, often while looking down at his feet. You admit to
yourself that you find his enormous size, darting eyes, and
foreign accent intimidating. You realize you are afraid of him,
even suspecting he is on some “wanted-for-questioning” list.
[You’re thinking on reaching the police to keep ‘an eye’ on him]”

Source: Koocher & Keith-Spiegel (2016, p. 2)

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Two approaches to ethics
Utilitarianism (consequentialism)
“[…] Right action is the
action that produces the
most good” (Stanford
Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
2009)
La acción correcta es la que
produce mayor bien.
Deontology
“[Right action relies on] the principles or
maxims on which the agent acts and not
primarily in those acts’ effects on others”
(Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007)
“La acción correcta se basa en los principios
o máximas sobre los cuales actúa el agente y
no principalmente en los efectos de esos
actos sobre los demás”
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Code of Ethics

Regulate
Norms professional actions

Declarative Informative Coercive

Values and Rules and criteria Punishment for

principles for assessing an not following
action rules

Adapted from Franca-Tarragó (2001)

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Exercises

Imagine that your patient is a 7-year-old boy, you have been

treating him for some time and he tells you that his father/mother,
for some time now, has been hitting him every time he gets a bad
grade. However, he asks you not to tell his parents because he
does not want them to be upset with him. You agree not to tell his
parents.
Was this actually ‘unethical’? (Use the definition of ethics to
answer this question)
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Exercises

Draw a mental map that include the following concepts:

• Ethics
• Professional ethics
• Code of ethics
• Utilitarianism
• Deontology
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My map
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