Ethical Decision-Making Analysis

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Ethical decision-making according to the APA Ethics Code seems to be overwhelming as a clinical psychology student currently undergoing training. Understandably so, there is a lot of grey area and no clear white and black picture. I think the grey area is essential because it allows psychologists to make decisions according to the situation at hand while taking into consideration the APA Ethics Code, the law, culture, moral principles, etc. As the reading indicated, each ethical challenge is unique. Throughout the reading I found myself questioning my personal and professional values, beliefs, judgments, and thoughts. The reading, specifically the examples, helped me walk through the right ethical decisions. I learned a lot of …show more content…
I found the deontology or Kantian perspective to be very extreme and felt I best resonated with the utilitarianism or consequentialism perspective. I felt I best resonated with the utilitarianism or consequentialism perspective because I feel ethical decisions are made specific to the situation at hand and that risks and benefits should be weighed. I later questioned if I believed the utilitarianism or consequentialism perspective or a little bit of each of the ethical theories when reading about ethical absolutism, ethical relativism, and ethical contextualism. I felt I best resonated with ethical contextualism, which is consistent with the relational or feminist ethics framework, and not the utilitarianism or consequentialism framework. This made me question myself …show more content…
From step one; I learned the importance of reflecting my personal versus professional values and the importance of self-care practices. This is something that worries me as a new clinician and raises the question of will I ever be able to separate my professional and personal values? Step two though six provided me with an answer and made me realize I will be, as long as I refer to the APA Ethics Code; the local, state, and federal laws; understand the perspective of all people involved; come up with alternatives; and evaluate effectiveness. These six steps will be the foundation for me to be successful as a practicing clinician. In the examples provided, I was initially surprised that the doctor decided not to disclose the client’s HIV status to the other client, knowing that it may be a risk and harm to the pregnant client and her child, but later when I read that she would encourage the pregnant client to go in for HIV testing and encourage the other client himself to share about his HIV with the pregnant client, it made sense. It also and made me realize I would probably come to that conclusion too after assessing all potential risks and benefits of breaking confidentiality versus not.

Reading through section one on resolving ethical issues, made me realize the importance of verbiage and how certain words like reasonable, solely, etc. can be interpreted. This was helpful. I also
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