Code of Ethics - Psychology
10 ecenciales principles:
Promote harmony and professional solidarity.
Promoting responsible attitude, lucid and committed against human beings and their specific conditions.
Affirm the right of psychologists to independently exercise their profession and the ethical foundations that support it.
The psychologist has the right and obligation to improve their training, and the right to research in their field of work.
Ensure proper and regular exercise of the profession in the protection of fundamental human rights:
- Health
- Education
- Work
- Social integration.
Here I attach the ethical code of my future profession. (Psychology)
CHAPTER I: GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES PSYCHOLOGIST
Article 1: The / psychologist / a in the practice of his profession is guided by the principles of accountability, confidentiality, competence, truthfulness, loyalty and humanity regardless of any discrimination.
Article 2: the / psychologist / a in any professional area to play, act in the exercise of the profession with the utmost objectivity and integrity, while maintaining respect for the recipients of their services and society in general.
Article 3: the / psychologist / a in the exercise of their profession has prohibited the transfer of title or signature.
Article 4: is absolutely forbidden to use titles that do not possess and carry all those practices which are predominantly guided by the profit motive.
Article 5: is allowed to assign, give, lend or sell techniques or lay persons who are not accredited as psychologists, or in any way disclose techniques between foreign to the profession and the psychological sciences people.
Article 6: the / psychologist / a in situations that arise in the form of accidents, emergency social or public calamity, personally or through the College of Psychologists cooperate with the State in prevention, protection and improvement of the mental health and social of the population, regardless of any personal gain. Such collaboration may be requested only in full respect of the rule of law.
Article 7: the / psychologist / a should be aware of their own ethical, ideological, political and / or religious values and not use their power to manipulate from an affective-emotional, axiological, economically, sexually, or any other.
Article 8: the / psychologist / a not exercise their profession when limited / a in a state of intoxication, physical and / or psychological, or affected / to a situation that im ¬ ask temporarily or permanently adequate performance.
Article 9: is duty / psychologist / to respect the will of the client after the mine's refusal to continue under his care.
CHAPTER II - THE COLLECTION AND USE OF INFORMATION-CONFIDENTIALITY
Article 10: the / the psychologists / as recognize the right of the recipient of their services to confidentiality, so are obliged to maintain secrecy regarding the information obtained. Also ensure that their employees have any adhere to this confidentiality.
Article 11: the practice of the profession, he / psychologist / to display a scrupulous respect for the rights of the recipient of their services to their own privacy. Shall receive only the information strictly necessary to perform the tasks for which it has been required and provided with the permission of the person concerned.
Article 12: When the assessment or psychological intervention has been requested by someone else, judges, professional teachers, parents, employers, or any other applicant different from the subject evaluated, the latter or their parents / guardians have the right to be informed assessment or intervention. Receiver has the right to know the content of the psychological report, provided that it does serious harm to the subject or to others arising.
Article 13: the psychological reports are clear, precise, rigorous and intelligible to the recipient. They must express their scope and limitations, the degree of certainty that he / psychologist / to possess its various contents and the current or temporary thereof to, the areas investigated with the techniques used in their production, stating all the case data psychologist issuing it.
Article 14: the psychological reports prepared at the request of institutions or organizations in general, other than indicated in the preceding article, shall be subject to the same duty and general right of privacy established above, leaving both the psychologist and the corresponding required applicant institution not spread them outside the strict framework for which they were collected.
Article 15: the / the psychologists / as when making written and / or verbal reports of individuals, institutions or groups must exclude those records delivered under secrecy and only provided when authorized by the applicant, or in the cases provided for in Article 18 of this Code.
Article 16: the oral, written, audiovisual or involving other technology, clinical or illustrative cases for teaching purposes or communication or scientific disclosure, must be such that the identification of the person, group or institution is not possible concerned.
If the medium used to such exposure entails the possibility of identification of the subject, their consent is required.
Article 17: the written and / or electronic records of psychological data, interviews and test results, if they are kept for some time, it will be under the personal responsibility / psychologist / a in safety and secrecy to prevent outsiders they can access them.
Article 18: the obligation of secrecy is absolute. You can only raise to inform the family, admittedly involved or people close to the judicial authorities in the event of a serious risk to the person and / or others.
Article 19: the death of the recipient of services or temporary or permanent dismissal, both in the case of institutions, such as private practice psychologist does not relieve the obligation of professional secrecy, although their treatment or test is completed.
Article 20: For the present, manifest or proprietary third party unnecessary for professional act, such as trainees or professionals in training, the prior consent of the recipient of services is required.
Article 21: the / psychologist / a should not make use of acquired information, or benefit themselves or others, or to the detriment of the recipient of their services.
CHAPTER III - USE OF THE ART
Article 22: the psychological assessment is the exclusive task of the / as psychologists / as, is not an end in itself, will always be inserted into a target for prevention, intervention and / or research.
Article 23: the techniques and instruments that use the / psychologist / to select information based on its reliability and validity, fully knowing the instrument, its principles, investigations that precede and usage requirements.
Article 24: evaluations / as psychologists / as, recommendations, reports, and diagnostic or evaluative judgments are based on information and techniques needed, to enable adequate substantiation of the results.
CHAPTER IV - Competition
Article 25: the / psychologist / a continually refine their training for the maintenance of high levels of scientific and technical expertise for the benefit of those who use him / her and the profession as a whole.
Article 26: only provide services and use techniques for which they are qualified by training and experience.
Article 27: recognize the limitations of their training and personality and give up any work that could be harmed by them.
Article 28: the / psychologist / interconsultation to resort to when their specific capacity does not allow you to meet the need of the requesting person.
CHAPTER V - FEES
Article 29: the / psychologist / a has the right to propose fees right from the first interview, whatever the outcome of their professional services without making the decisive economic motivation for their work.
Article 30: the / psychologist / a right to demand a fair return, which will adhere to the agreements that are developed when exercising both as employees and liberal manner. In the latter case, agree with the receiver of services the amount of fees.
Article 31: the / psychologist / not make unfair competition, to ¬ stipulate his fee, shall conform to the provisions in this regard by the competent authorities, except in justified cases, that could cause even the psychologist seeks to provide free of charge to people of insufficient resources.
Article 32: (. Clinics, pharmacies, laboratories, etc.) is prohibited at / psychologist / share fees with colleagues or any other practitioner or accept payments or contributions in money or otherwise, that mean commercially collude in receptor professional care services. Notwithstanding the right to file jointly or separately fees, as applicable, according to the forms of service delivery.
CHAPTER VI - RIGHTS OF PSYCHOLOGIST
Article 33: the / psychologist / has the right to exercise their profession with autonomy and independence in both the public and private sectors.
Article 34: all / psychologist / has the right not to be coerced by economic or ideological reasons, or undignified circumstances to their profession.
Article 35: the / psychologist / has a right to abstain or deny her care professional or personal reasons or when conscience is injured, although legally authorized, have the right to refer the recipient of services.
Article 36: the / psychologist / is entitled to a fair return, without making the decisive economic motivation for their work.
Article 37: the / psychologist / has the right to associate freely, to defend their rights against individuals and public and private institutions to receive the solidarity of their colleagues in the case to be treated / a unjust or unworthy and every need .
Article 38: is reserved exclusively for / as psychologists / as in the practice of their profession, such as law regulates it-the practice of psychology in any of its areas (diagnosis, counseling, supervision, teaching, research, counseling, psychotherapy, consultation or other).
Article 39: all / psychologist / professional whose conduct is under investigation is entitled to:
a) the presumption of good conduct, professionalism and morale.
b) that any sanction is imposed until his guilt is proved by the competent bodies.
c) to be opened up and record, and their free access to him, and his reading copy.
d) be informed personally of all resolutions.
e) to provide and present testimonial and documentary evidence within the discharge procedure.
f) hearing within the procedure, and prior to the final resolution.
g) seek legal advice.
h) appeal the ruling or sanction.
CHAPTER VII - Interprofessional Relations
Article 40: Relations between / as psychologists / as should be inspired by mutual respect, healthy competition, professional solidarity and cooperation.
Article 41: the / psychologist / a should be in solidarity with their colleagues regardless of the different schools, currents or methods they use, as they all have the common goal to improve the quality of life of the population and share responsibility for the sustained progress of science. Solidarity reflects the harmony of the profession and increase public prestige.
Article 42: they are unethical acts displace a colleague or pretending to do so in a public or private place, by any means other than the competition.
Article 43: prohibited replace / psychological professionals as their activity in public or private stations, if they were separated without cause and without prior summary.
Article 44: slander is against the ethics, slander or attempt to injure a fellow by any means.
Article 45: after completing the instance under the general and transitional provisions, in cases where the conduct or professional action of some colleague deserves qualms, he / psychologist / a must account to the College and then to the courts if can be derived.
Article 46:'s obligation / psychologist / to help the technical training of their colleagues, not saving knowledge and / or useful techniques in psychology for their particular use.
Article 47: the / psychologist / not attend the recipient of services who is being assisted by a colleague, except in emergency situations and / or emergencies.
CHAPTER VIII - RELATIONS WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS AND INSTITUTIONS:
Article 48: the / psychologist / to respect the work and independence of other professionals and not require them to take the skills that are specific to the field of psychology.
Article 49: Relationship with others / as professionals should be centered on mutual respect, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and team work, seeking appropriate means to benefit the recipient of services while maintaining the standards of their own profession and Nesting same.
Article 50: as a member of multi and interdisciplinary team, he / psychologist / a should not make decisions that affect the rest of the team without proper consultation with it. Your individual responsibility does not go away by the fact teamwork.
Article 51: the / psychologist / a should not obey instructions from their employers when they force him to violate the principles or rules of professional ethics. In case of conflict between business processes and the interests of the people, he / psychologist / should choose to defend the latter.
Article 52: the / psychologist / to lend his generous collaboration in all activities and institutions that can contribute to the development of psychology as a science and as a profession.
Article 53: their relationship with public and / or private institutions:
a) / psychologist / art to act with responsibility and respect for the rules tend to receiver the best care for your services and the prestige of the institution where she works.
b) the / as psychologists / as have a responsibility to try to prevent distortion, misuse, or concealment of procedures and / or psychological discoveries, by the institution or entity in which they are employed, making the complaint whom it may concern.
CHAPTER IX - TRAINING AND TEACHING
Article 54: It is inherent responsibility to exercise professional / psychologist / a, the continuous updating of their scientific and technical knowledge.
Article 55: the / psychologist / to participate in courses, seminars or similar activities to impart knowledge of their own profession must have adequate preparation on the subject in question and demonstrate suitability.
Article 56: the / as psychologists / teachers psychological knowledge as presented objectively, fully and accurately.
Article 57: the / psychologist / in their teaching to take into account that besides imparting knowledge, as referred to earlier, his role involves positioning itself as a reference model and identificatorio for their students.
Article 58: the teaching task is an activity that requires specific training to enable learning and teaching educational criteria that allow adequate performance.
Article 59: It is important to distinguish the role of teaching others, mainly driven clinical, not confusing areas of work that require positioning, strategies and specific techniques.
Article 60: the particularities of the practice of teaching, not search through it to benefit personally or private institutions to which you might belong.
CHAPTER X - RESEARCH
Article 61: reassure / as psychologists / as the widest freedom of inquiry, not being admissible:
a) promote experiences with physical or moral persons risk.
b) make experimentations to ideologies that may vitiate the course of it or its results.
Article 62: The / as psychologists / as to plan, implement and communicate their research should preserve the ethical principles of respect and dignity in order to safeguard the welfare and rights of individuals and in general living beings participate in its research.
Article 63: it is forbidden to apply their professional practice, public and private, procedures rejected by scientists or legally recognized universities and psychological tests and / or other techniques that have no scientific validity.
Article 64: It is a right of every individual to give their informed consent before participating in any type of research in those procedures so require, according to the requirements of colleges and / or legally recognized scientists.
Article 65: the / psychologist / a should clarify to individuals and / or institutions that the data obtained will be used for research work. The data shall be confidential and never ¬ les are deleted whether or discordant with their hypothesis or theory. Furthermore, the identity of the person or institution shall be disclosed only with the express permission of both.
Article 66: the right of a person who takes part in the goal of the research population, to withdraw from it at any time without receiving any harm by it.
Article 67: the / psychologist / a is responsible for damages arising from a particular investigation or experimentation. It must in cases warrants to track people who are part of the target population.
Article 68: With regard to the research methodology / as psychologists / as build and conduct research evaluation techniques used in scientific procedures and current professional knowledge for designing them.
PUBLICATIONS
Article 69: the publication of a work sharing the names of all participants must be given and shall specify the degree of responsibility and collaboration.
Article 70: the / psychologist / to take care of preserving the scientific level of the profession in any publication or presentation in organs of disclosure.
Article 71: In the matter of scientific publications dissemination, / psychologist / topics to be presented with the necessary caution, always considering the characteristics of the audience being addressed.
Article 72: the / as psychologists / respect the Ethical Principles as set out in this code in its public statements regarding their services, products or professional publications.
Public statements include-but not limited-to and paid or free advertising, printed materials, interviews and / or comments for use in media, public lectures and presentations.
Article 73: Advertising of psychological services and other public statements must specify the name of the professional and / or institution, specialty, location and opening hours, limited to a dignified, sober and accurate promotion.
Article 74: the / psychologist / to utilize the mass media solely for educational and informational purposes, may not use them for consultations involving diagnosis or treatment.
GENERAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
The provisions of this CODE OF ETHICS reach all / as psychologists / as exercising their profession in Mexico, after its approval.
The statement of the ethical standards established in this Code does not mean denial or exclusion of others, while corresponding to general principles derived from practice conscious and worthy.
The absence of an express provision should not be construed as an admission practices and acts incompatible with the principles and consider providing impunity.
Students in psychology courses are bound to strict and timely compliance with this Code of Ethics.
This Code may be subject to revision.
It is the duty of all / psychologist / to denounce the illegal practice of the profession.
Faced with a breach of the principles of this Code, he / psychologist / should try to persuade his colleague to change their unethical behavior. If this is rejected management staff or colleague incurs repeated lack is the professional duty to report it.
Until the Membership, which imposes the creation of courts with legal powers Ethics approval, complaints should be handled at ministerial competent judiciary.
It is the duty of all / psychologist / to observe and enforce this Code.
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