An Undercover Investigation of Ethical Standard 7:

Education and Training

A WebQuest for EDP 606

Carolyn Brodnicki

Introduction | Task | Process | Conclusion | Credits

Introduction

Welcome to an undercover adventure in ethics! The American Psychological Association (APA) Ethical Standard 7: Teaching and Training is an important part of the APA Ethical Code.

Task

In a team of four you will work together to uncover the compliance or incompliance of the counseling psychology training programs at the University of Kentucky and a few benchmark universities. Your team is going to act as auditors working for the American Psychological Association.

 

 

 


Process

1. You may choose your group members. But choose carefully. You want sneaky, undercover characters on your team. Each of you in the group will choose a program to investigate. This will be your role.

2. Roles:

Each member of the team will examine the seven subsections of Standard 7 as related to the university counseling training programs. Essentially, each team member will be responsible for investigating the ethical compliance for each University.

UK Spy: investigates the compliance of the University of Kentucky

UWM Spy: investigates the compliance of the University of Wisconsin

UofI Spy: investigates the compliance of the University of Illinois

UofIowa Spy: investigates the compliance of the University of Iowa

For example, team member 1 would be in charge of the University of Kentucky (UK). After examining the link to Standard 7.01, the team member will then click the link to UK. The student will then examine if UK is compliant with standard 7.01. Team member 1 will examine the other subsections of Standard 7 as applicable to UK. The other team members will each examine the subsections for each of the other programs.

4. Scoring: Each school will receive a score in the following fashion:

   3: Training program is compliant with standard over and above requirement.

   2:Training program is compliant with the requirement.

   1: Training program is compliant with some of the requirements, but not all.

   0: Training program is not compliant with any of the requirement.

5. Comments: List any comments you may have about the intersecting standard and program.

6. Total: Total the scores for each school.

7. Now work with you group. Share your opinions about each university. Your task is to arrive at consensus that takes each perspective into account.

8. As undercover agents for APA, are there any universities that need further investigation? What would you do if you found a program in violation of an ethical standard?

Table

 

University of Kentucky

University of Wisconsin Madison

University of Illinois Urbana

University of Iowa

Standard 7.01

Program Design

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 Standard 7.02

Program Description

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Standard 7.03

 Accuracy in Teaching

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 Standard 7.04 

Personal Disclosure

Score:

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Standard 7.05

Group Therapy

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 Standard 7.06 

Supervision 

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Standard 7.07

Sexual Relationships

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Score Total

        

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

Hopefully you have been able to discover the importance of Standard 7 of the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Code. Additionally, you have understood how Standard 7 is implemented in the training and research of new counseling psychologists.

As you have discovered Standard 7, perhaps you are wondering about other Standards of the Ethics Code as they apply to the university setting. Check out APA’s Ethics Code for more information on all the Principles and Standards.

Further, as multicultural issues become increasingly relevant to the profession of psychology, check out APA’s Guidelines on Multicultural Education, Training, Research, Practice, and Organizational Change for Psychologists.

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