Vortrag: What Does It Take to be an Ethical Psychologist in a Globalizing World?von Farbe, Bewegung und Raum"

Psychology as a science and as an area of professional practice, like the world itself, is rapidly changing. Our ethical principles include both time-tested principles (e.g., integrity, harm avoidance) but our ethical standards do not always cope well with changing times. In this presentation Rodney L. Lowman, who has published widely on professional ethics, will review some of the limitations of our current psychology ethical principles and stand-ards. In particular, he will suggest that most psychology codes of ethics focus primarily on the individual level, short-changing the group, organizational, and community levels with which, directly or indirectly, we work. Additionally, psychological assessment and inter-vention services can be delivered electronically all around the world yet our ethics (and our licensing laws) are not set up with that reality in mind. Finally, Dr. Lowman will consider what roles ethical psychologists may need to have in speaking up about social issues in-cluding in the context of today’s anti-globalization, anti-human rights, anti-multicultural forces.