HANDS UP ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF ETHICS

A recent media controversy is used To help discriminate between immedi ate and often impulsive reactions to ethical problems and those of a m ore critical or evaluative nature, Decision-making models are reviewed as a way of considering responses more carefully and using more expli cit reasoning. The Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists is outlin ed and compared to that of the Psychological Society of ireland. The f ormer offers a clear and practical, structure, even including guidelin es for those situations when ethical principles are in conflict, A wor ked through example is reproduced to give a sense of haw this code can operate in practice. It is argued that this style of code is useful f or practice, for teaching ethics, as well as assisting in the adjudica tion of complaints against psychologists.