PSY ENG 101 psychology-Snhu
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PSY ENG 101 psychology-Snhu
Discussion 1 Psy 570Read Chapter 1 in your textbook and discuss your understanding of professional ethics in psychology. Explain the difference between risk management and ethical mind fulness posturing. Give an example of a time you witnessed or knew about an unethical situation that involved others. Was this situation responded to with risk management or ethical mind fulness posturing? Explain your reasoning. Professional ethics in psychology is fairly straightforward when reviewing chapter 1 of the text book. Ethics can be seen as simple as common sense. The practice of ethics in mental health are imperative because the goal of the mental health profession is to do the right thing to help a client gain emotional or mental well-being and strength. Ethics assist any mental health professional protect themselves and their clients It also allows for informed decisions on how to approach an individual and situations that will benefit the clients .
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PSY ENG 101 psychology-Snhu
Discussion 1 Psy 570Read Chapter 1 in your textbook and discuss your understanding of professional ethics in psychology. Explain the difference between risk management and ethical mind fulness posturing. Give an example of a time you witnessed or knew about an unethical situation that involved others. Was this situation responded to with risk management or ethical mind fulness posturing? Explain your reasoning. Professional ethics in psychology is fairly straightforward when reviewing chapter 1 of the text book.
PSY ENG 101 psychology-Snhu
Ethics can be seen as simple as common sense. The practice of ethics in mental health are imperative because the goal of the mental health profession is to do the right thing to help a client gain emotional or mental well-being and strength. Ethics assist any mental health professional protect themselves and their clients It also allows for informed decisions on how to approach an individual and situations that will benefit the clients .Mental health professionals have an authority within the relationship with clients.
PSY ENG 101 psychology-Snhu
Chapter one addressed the numerous ways to avoid breaching ethics. It also mentioned specific groups of people to avoid as a precaution. While reading this extensive list I was thinking to myself, if you rule out all of these groups of people there will be no one left to treat! The chapter then goes into how being overly obsessive and using fear-based risk management can be damaging to clients as well as mental health professionals’ careers (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 2016).While it is beneficial to be cautious, there is no need to be overdramatic and take such drastic measures, considering it is practically impossible to always avoid situations with the possibility of an ethical breach.
PSY ENG 101 psychology-Snhu
Ethical mindfulness posturing is something that you are actively engaging in when with apatient. Self-awareness is extremely important when working in the mental health profession because actions, words, and posturing can be misconstrued or turned around in the future. There are many reasons for lapses in self -awareness such as overpraising our positive qualities, overestimating our level of competence, insufficient cognitive strategies, and a self-serving bias (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 2016). Mental health professionals must take into consideration how things could be misinterpreted in order to avoid ethical misconduct. Examples of ethical mindfulness could be how a therapist engages with their client, if they accept gifts
