Ethical Dilemmas for Clinical Psychologists in Conducting Qualitative Research

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Thompson ◽  
Kate Russo
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Clinical Psychologists

Ethical Dilemmas That Emerge in Highly Personal Qualitative Research

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick J. Wertz ◽  
Linda M. McMullen ◽  
Ruthellen Josselson ◽  
Rosemarie Anderson ◽  
Kathy Charmaz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas

scholarly journals Ethical Dilemmas of a Clinician/Researcher Interviewing Women who have Grown up in a Family Where There was Domestic Violence

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 102-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarissa Sammut Scerri ◽  
Angela Abela ◽  
Arlene Vetere
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
The Self ◽  
Grounded Theory Study ◽  
Important Resource ◽  
Interview Process ◽  
The Family

This paper attempts to illuminate some of the ethical dilemmas of a clinician/researcher interviewing women about a sensitive topic- their experience of having witnessed domestic violence in the family they grew up in, as part of a grounded theory study. Vignettes are presented to illustrate the self-reflexive process of the researcher and how she understood the effects of the interview process on her and the participants. The authors argue that doing in-depth qualitative research interviewing is an intervention in the life of the participants, especially, but not only, when the researchers are clinically-trained. However, this clinical training may also be an important resource from which to draw from, to act ethically and understand some of the complexity of the interaction between researcher and participants.

Ethical behaviour of physicians and psychologists: similarities and differences

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-100
Author(s):  
Michall Ferencz Kaddari ◽  
Meni Koslowsky ◽  
Michael A Weingarten
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
Clinical Psychologists ◽  
Dual Relationships ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Ethical Intention ◽  
Coping Patterns ◽  
Ethical Intent

ObjectiveTo compare the coping patterns of physicians and clinical psychologists when confronted with clinical ethical dilemmas and to explore consistency across different dilemmas.Population88 clinical psychologists and 149 family physicians in Israel.MethodSix dilemmas representing different ethical domains were selected from the literature. Vignettes were composed for each dilemma, and seven possible behavioural responses for each were proposed, scaled from most to least ethical. The vignettes were presented to both family physicians and clinical psychologists.ResultsPsychologists’ aggregated mean ethical intention score, as compared with the physicians, was found to be significantly higher (F(6, 232)=22.44, p<0.001, η2=0.37). Psychologists showed higher ethical intent for two dilemmas: issues of payment (they would continue treating a non-paying patient while physicians would not) and dual relationships (they would avoid treating the son of a colleague). In the other four vignettes, psychologists and physicians responded in much the same way. The highest ethical intent scores for both psychologists and physicians were for confidentiality and a colleague’s inappropriate practice due to personal problems.ConclusionsResponses to the dilemmas by physicians and psychologists can be categorised into two groups: (1) similar behaviours on the part of both professions when confronting dilemmas concerning confidentiality, inappropriate practice due to personal problems, improper professional conduct and academic issues and (2) different behaviours when confronting either payment issues or dual relationships.

Qualitative research ethics on the spot

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 455-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Øye ◽  
Nelli Øvre Sørensen ◽  
Stinne Glasdam
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Informed Consent ◽  
Research Ethics ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Institutional Review Boards ◽  
Ethical Guidelines ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Institutional Review ◽  
Review Boards

Background: The increase in medical ethical regulations and bureaucracy handled by institutional review boards and healthcare institutions puts the researchers using qualitative methods in a challenging position. Method: Based on three different cases from three different research studies, the article explores and discusses research ethical dilemmas. Objectives and ethical considerations: First, and especially, the article addresses the challenges for gatekeepers who influence the informant’s decisions to participate in research. Second, the article addresses the challenges in following research ethical guidelines related to informed consent and doing no harm. Third, the article argues for the importance of having research ethical guidelines and review boards to question and discuss the possible ethical dilemmas that occur in qualitative research. Discussion and conclusion: Research ethics must be understood in qualitative research as relational, situational, and emerging. That is, that focus on ethical issues and dilemmas has to be paid attention on the spot and not only at the desktop.

Educação na Época das Incertezas: Como Professores da Educação Básica de Campo Grande se Posicionam

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Antonio Sales ◽  
Clodoaldo Almeida dos Santos ◽  
Fausto Luiz de França Neto ◽  
Anderson Martins Corrêa
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Public School ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Public School Teachers ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Contemporary Context

O presente trabalho é resultado parcial de um projeto mais amplo, que pretende investigar os dilemas éticos do professor da Rede Pública de Ensino de Campo Grande, MS. Como primeira aproximação se buscou investigar os conflitos vividos no exercício da profissão levando em conta que se está vivendo em uma era de incertezas. A análise tomou por base os pressupostos de Zigmunt Bauman, que considera esta época como dotada de fluidez e ambiguidade. A pesquisa se caracteriza como qualitativa descritiva e os dados foram obtidos por entrevista. A análise aponta para certo grau de sofrimento nos professores de Exatas e a dificuldade deles em lidar com as incertezas e o que consideram falta de interesse por parte dos alunos.Palavras-chave: Ética. Pós-Modernidade. Práticas Docentes.AbstractThis paper is a partial outcome from a more comprehensive project whose goal is to investigate ethical dilemmas of public school teachers from Campo Grande, MS. As first step, the conflicts were investigated that appear during teaching job, considering that we have been living in times of of uncertainty. The research was based on Zigmunt Bauman’s approach, that considers contemporary context provided with ambiguous and fluid thoughts. The present work is a descriptive and qualitative research and data were collected by means of interview. The results have shown the existence of a degree of teachers’ suffering and the difficulty they find about dealing with uncertainty and what they consider lack of interest by their students.Keywords: Ethics. Postmodernity. Teaching Practices.

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