Ethical Behavior In Psychology

The dominant trend in contemporary medical ethics describes ethical behavior in terms of the principles and rules that must be followed to bring it about, most notably non-maleficence, beneficence, justice, and respect for autonomy. Practice of medicine has always been regarded as beneficial, good, and praiseworthy. At the same time, practitioners of medicine in different times and places were required to exhibit certain character traits and skills that were deemed necessary for the fulfillment of the goals of the practice. In this sense, ethics has always been part of both the practice of medicine and theoretical discussions over the nature and goals of medicine. However, In contrast to the classical notional of healthcare for the sick, …show more content…
Recent evidence indicates that psychological treatments may be superior to anti-depressant medication in preventing relapse after active treatment has been withdrawn. The history of psychological therapies has been marked by a lack of well-designed outcome studies accompanied by the reluctance of many psychotherapists to adopt ideas such as diagnosis and disagreements about the nature or importance of outcome measures and, sometimes, of the benefits of evidence-based approaches. cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) treatments, which are based on the scientist–practitioner model and routinely gather outcome data. MBCT is quickly gaining more popularity in treatment of various disorders including depression. How are these prophylactic effects to be explained? Can we use an understanding of the way these effects are achieved to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of psychological approaches to the prevention of relapse in depression? In particular, can this understanding help us develop cost-effective methods of prevention applicable in the euthymic …show more content…
The nature of these virtuous habits span a spectrum of manifolds, with one end focused on “self-fashioning”, while at the other extreme lays the “citizen attitude”. Unfortunately, the approaches and attitudes discussed in this paper, all lie at the extremes and none attempts to negotiate a middle path, away from either a self-centered or a “good for most” perspective. Although the proposed Loving attitude perspective attempts to delineate social cohesion from its strict focus on rules, to rather encompassing cognitive, evaluative, affective, emotional and motivational states, it still lacks a primer that could bridge the two ends of the spectrum with their respective …….. Since a practical ethical recommendation is acceptable only if it is reasonable to expect people to follow it, theories that recommend character-development should be formulated and assessed with reference to empirical studies of the nature of behavioural inclinations, studies that are becoming increasingly