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.