PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mental Health Professional, Parens Patriae, Involuntary Commitment
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Psy340 lecture 3: ethics how you should conduct yourself. Behaviour that you should conduct yourself with: legal how you must conduct yourself. If disobey then get in trouble with the law: overlap between ethical and legal. Not everything that is unethical is illegal: #1 rule. In clinical psychology, do not harm your client. Should you harm your client, you face being fired, license taken away, can"t practice anymore: ex. If you inform authorities, the client gets charged with it and that is considered harm to the client. Yes, you have legal responsibility to tell: ethical dilemma gray areas. Don"t have responsibility to inform authorities on previous murders. If they are planning to again, then must tell authorities: laws come from ethics in the large part, legal issues, what you have to do come out of issues from social conflict. To determine and testify whether person is mentally competent or incompetent, whether they are liable or not liable for a behaviour.
