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Week 6 Resources

American Psychological Association Code of Ethics

American Psychological Association. (n.d.). Ethical principles of psychologists and code of conduct. https://www.apa.org/ethics/code/ 

  • This web link takes you to the American Psychological Association’s Ethics Code.

The New Handbook of Counseling Supervision

Borders, L.D., & Brown, L.L. (2022). The new handbook of counseling supervision (1st ed.). Routledge. 

  • This text by Borders and Brown represents an excellent overview of clinical and counseling supervision, including both broad perspectives and more specific interventions and considerations.

  • Read Chapter 6 for its focus on critical issues relevant to ethics and clinical supervision.

Ethics and Relationship: From Risk Management to Relational Engagement

Birrell, P. J., & Bruns, C. M. (2016). Ethics and relationship: From risk management to relational engagement. Journal of Counseling & Development, 94(4), 391–397. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcad.12097.

  • This article examines the American Counseling Association’s ethics code and offers a relational-cultural theory that provides an alternative framework for understanding ethics in a relational and compassionate way. 

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The strict liability standard and clinical supervision

Polychronis, P. D., & Brown, S. G. (2016). The strict liability standard and clinical supervision. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 47(2), 139–146. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000073.

  • This article explores the implications of the strict liability standard and offers recommendations for future efforts to reduce culpability of supervisors for supervisee actions that are beyond their reasonable control.