Abstract
The Oxford International Handbook of
Psychological Ethics is the state-of-the-art source for
information on psychological ethics worldwide, and offers a
long-awaited comprehensive review of contemporary and emerging
international ethical issues within psychology as a science and
profession. There is no comparable volume on the market nor has
the material in The Handbook
been presented in depth in the psychological literature. The Handbook is organized in
sections, with chapters written by acknowledged authorities from around
the globe. The first section covers the history and types of
ethics codes, ethical decision-making, and responses to ethical
infractions. Section two addresses issues in international
psychological ethics, including the process of ethics-code development,
the quest for universal standards, ethics and cross-cultural research
and indigenous practice, the ethics of online research and practice,
and the role of ethics in national security. Section three links
psychological ethics to other disciplines, such as business, law, and
medicine. The fourth section outlines major convergent and
divergent developments in various geographic regions. Section
five represents an emerging area within psychological ethics, that
being the impact of economic, political, and social systems on
ethics-code development and the ethical practice of psychology.
The final section of The Handbook
synthesizes the proceeding sections
and offers direction for future work on ethics as situated
internationally. An appendix is included with useful annotated
resources, such as books and book chapters, journal articles, websites,
national and international ethics organizations, etc.