A Note on Civil Disobedience and Professional Ethics Codes

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Bede Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Ethics Codes

James and the Megan Family: Navigating Court and Allegations of Abuse

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-235
Author(s):  
Bret Hendricks ◽  
Ann Ordway ◽  
Loretta Bradley ◽  
Nicole Noble
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
International Association ◽  
Standards Of Care ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Family Counselors ◽  
Standards Of Practice ◽  
Ethics Code ◽  
Marriage And Family Counselors

Couples and family counselors daily encounter ethical dilemmas. These dilemmas are complex and multifaceted. This article is written to discuss and provide information to couples and family counselors who seek to work ethically with clients who have been accused of abuse to minors. The authors of this article consulted an expert in ethics and standards of care related to the abuse of minors to identify ethical analysis of dilemmas through a fictional case study. The respondent to the case study provides recommendations to assist couples and family counselors as they follow the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors Ethics Code as well as other professional ethics codes and standards of practice.

scholarly journals ETHICAL CODES OF CONDUCT FOR THE DIGITAL ECONOMY ENTITIES: THE LEGAL ASPECT

2021 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 72-84
Author(s):  
HONCHARENKO Olena
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Codes Of Ethics ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Standards Of Conduct ◽  
Corporate Social

Background.The use of IT tools in the business sphere requires special legal regulation, given the excellent mechanism of consolidation from areas where the figure is not yet used or its use is quite limited. An important tool of regulatory self-regulation are codes of ethics in the digital economy, which only take into account certain features of digital transformations and are a universal trend of modern development of legal regulation of the economy in Ukraine and the world. Analysis of recent research and publications. The analysis of types, the content of ethical codes in the field of digital economy is not paid enough attention, which actualizes the purpose of this scientific article. The aim of the study is to determine the features of codes of ethics in the digital economy. Materials and methods. During the study, both general scientific and special methods of cognition were used: dialectical, systemic, synergetic, formal-logical, generalization, functional, comparative jurisprudence. The information base of the study was national legislation, EU directives, works of domestic and foreign scientists, codes of conduct of international IT companies. Results. The following types of codes of ethics (codes of professional ethics) depending on the subject, the subjects of their development and adoption in the digital economy are identified: codes of ethics in a particular area of the digital economy; codes of ethics of a separate professional community; codes of ethics (codes of professional ethics) of an individual business entity. Codes of ethics in a particular area of the digital economy are a collection of rules and standards of conduct developed by a community, an association of different professions, in order to develop common principles and policies in a particular market. Codes of ethics of a particular professional community are a collection of rules and standards of conduct that are developed by a particular community on a professional basis and that operate in the digital economy. Codes of ethics (codes of professional ethics) of an individual business entity are internal organizational documents of a specific business entity, an element of its foreign and domestic policy, which sets out the rules of activity for the company’s citizens, limits of liability, etc. Conclusion. It has been established that the digital economy is primarily an area that has emerged through self-regulation, so the development of regulationin the digital economy should be linked to the ethics of using the tools of digital transformation. It has been found that the self-regulation of the digital economy takes into account the flexibility of various tools, including codes of ethics. It is established that the structure and content of codes of ethics (codes of professional ethics) of each company is different. The content of such codes usually includes global trends of modern business requirements: sustainable development policy, respect for human rights, corporate social responsibility, compliance with anti-corruption, tax laws, etc., and special, which reflect the individual obligations of a particular company. Keywords: digital economy, code of ethics, code of professional ethics, business entity, sustainable development, business and human rights, corporate social responsibility, artificial intelligence.

Professional Ethics

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Gunz ◽  
Sally Gunz ◽  
Ronit Dinovitzer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Professional Organization ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Professional Service Firm ◽  
Subsequent Discussion

This chapter introduces professional ethics as a specific example of applied or practical ethics. The authors provide a short review of the literature on theoretical and applied ethics in order to give context for the subsequent discussion. They examine three foundational concepts of professional ethics: codes adopted by professional bodies, professional autonomy, and the contested role of gatekeeper. Next, the authors consider ethical pressures experienced by professionals in the non-professional organization (NPO), and then the Professional Service Firm (PSF). Here the authors compare the pressure exerted by employer and clients and examine how so-called “client capture” can become a complex phenomenon when both client and professional are corporate entities. Finally, the chapter considers the challenges for the study of ethics in the PSF highlighted by this account.

Professionalism as Bar Politics: The Making of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct

1989 ◽  
Vol 14 (04) ◽  
pp. 677-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Schneyer
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Professional Conduct ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Structural Differentiation ◽  
Legal Ethics ◽  
Ethical Pluralism ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
Ethics Code ◽  
Law Making

Based on extensive archival research, this article offers a political account of the six-year process in which the ABA developed its latest ethics code for lawyers, the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The article casts doubt on the validity of several functionalist and critical theories about the provenance and significance of professional ethics codes generally and the ABA's codes in particular. It evaluates the Model Rules process as an instance of de facto law making by a private group. And it identifies a lawyer's “professionalism-in-fact”—a set of common themes in the way lawyers currently think about the field of legal ethics. At the same time, however, the article stresses the ethical pluralism and structural differentiation of today's legal profession and roots the ethical preoccupations of various types of lawyers in the circumstances of their particular practices.

What Do Psychotherapists Need to Know about Ethics? Lessons from the History of Professional Ethics

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Moral Theory ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Moral Character ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
The Core ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times

Behaving ethically is at the core of what it means to be a professional. It is central to the contract that all professions have with the persons they serve and with the societies in which they function. This sense of ethical responsibility, and the practice of articulating the underlying values, principles, and behavioral manifestations of such a responsibility, both have a long history. By outlining the history of ethical values and codes, and the meaning of “profession,” from ancient times to the present, this chapter explores several major components involved in psychotherapists’ efforts to be ethical practitioners. This includes attention to the roles of ethics codes, ethical values and principles, moral theory, ethical reasoning, and moral character. Although there is sometimes a tendency to treat these components as separate entities (even in competition with each other as explanatory concepts), the emphasis in this chapter is on how history teaches us that they need to be seen and treated as an integrated whole in our efforts to be ethical practitioners.

Canon 6 - Confidentiality—Confidentiality: The Ethical Baby in the Legal Bathwater

1987 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 33-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell M. Handelsman
Keyword(s):  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Reasoning ◽  
Ethical Principle ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Legal Concept ◽  
Privileged Communication ◽  
Policies And Practices

The ethical principle of confidentiality is often overshadowed by narrow discussions of the legal concept of privileged communication. Even professional ethics codes offer only minimal guidance. Policies and practices regarding confidentiality need to be based on a process of ethical reasoning and reflection that includes the philosophical principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and fidelity.

The Family Imperative in Genetic Testing

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Lorraine Cowley
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Genetic Testing ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Cancer Susceptibility ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Individual Choice ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk

The context of this case study, based on empirical qualitative research, is genetic testing for cancer susceptibility. Within genetics, information may have shared significance for family members, but not everyone necessarily has the same desire to know their genetic probability of developing cancer. Professional ethics codes in the UK dictate that genetic testing is offered as an individual choice, not a shared one, although in practice family members may be invited to, or request, shared appointments. Here the ideal of individual choice comes into contact with pressures of family dynamics, and these may influence how people engage with choice as individuals.

Awareness and Decision Making in Professional Ethics

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronny Swain
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Ethical Decisions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Aid Decision

The paper describes the development of the 1998 revision of the Psychological Society of Ireland's Code of Professional Ethics. The Code incorporates the European Meta-Code of Ethics and an ethical decision-making procedure borrowed from the Canadian Psychological Association. An example using the procedure is presented. To aid decision making, a classification of different kinds of stakeholder (i.e., interested party) affected by ethical decisions is offered. The author contends (1) that psychologists should assert the right, which is an important aspect of professional autonomy, to make discretionary judgments, (2) that to be justified in doing so they need to educate themselves in sound and deliberative judgment, and (3) that the process is facilitated by a code such as the Irish one, which emphasizes ethical awareness and decision making. The need for awareness and judgment is underlined by the variability in the ethical codes of different organizations and different European states: in such a context, codes should be used as broad yardsticks, rather than precise templates.

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