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Professional and Ethical Standards in Forensic Psychology Professional and Ethical Standards in Forensic Psychology Name: Course: Institution: Institutional Location: Submission Date:

Professional and Ethical Standards in Forensic Psychology Introduction • Forensic psychology- deals with psycho-legal matters • Thus, forensic psychology forms an intersection between psychology and law. As such, forensic psychologists require beyond the academic and clinical experience (Hall and Poirier, 2021). • The ethical conduct of forensic psychologists is often subjected to speculation. • These speculations have led to the development and implementation of various professional and ethical guidelines in the profession (Varela and Conroy, 2012). • Such guidelines offer a sense of direction for psychological experts dealing with clients and colleagues involved in psycho-legal problems.

Common Ethical Issues • Overlooking unfavourable information • Pressured testimony (adrenaline factor) • Deceitful information about planted evidence • Misrepresented credentials or qualifications • Prejudiced evaluations • Falsified information (Gudjonsson and Haward, 2016).

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Core Ethical Principles Non-maleficence (Doing No Harm) • The duty to benefit with those that one works with while ensuring that the risk of harm/injury is minimized or eliminated as much as possible. • Often times, the ideology for psychologist to do no harm is challenged, especially in forensic psychology. • For instance, a testimony from a forensic psychologist can be manipulated by legal experts to persuade the jury to offer a guilty verdict. This transforms the principle of non-maleficence to the principle of impartiality (Allan, 2018). Respecting Autonomy • Psychologists have an ethical role to let people decide for themselves how they want to live without interference. • In forensic psychology, experts are obliged to respect the choices made by clients, especially if they have the capacity to make informed decisions (Hall and Poirier, 2021). • Thus, professions need to practice understanding, intentionality and prevent themselves from being controlling towards the outcome.

Core Ethical Principles Benefiting Others • The decisions that a forensic psychologist makes need to have potential for positive outcomes for those involved. • In this case, forensic psychologists need to consider two aspects; the first being offering benefits and second balancing benefits and risks (Hall and Poirier, 2021). • This principle also involves ensuring that the rights of others are protected and advocated for as well as preventing and eliminating any form of harm towards others. Being Just • The actions and services offered by a forensic psychologist need to be equitable and fair. The forensic psychologist should treat clients as they would have wanted in a similar situation. • Essentially, forensic psychologist ought to ensure that they oblige to equitable costs, benefits, risks and resources (Hall and Poirier, 2021). • This translates to psychological professionals according the same effort, contribution, merit, share and need to every client.

Core Ethical Principles Being Faithful • This involves honesty, loyalty, privacy and the promise to respect the confidentiality of clients and colleagues. Candidness, sincerity and straightforwardness prevents events were one is deceived or misled in terms of ethical and legal actions. • In psychology, professionals are expected to be accurate and truthful. • While clinical psychologists have the luxury to intentionally utilize deceptive methods to evaluate clients as long as they can ethically justify them, forensic psychologists do not have this pleasure (Allan, 2018) . • Every evaluation in forensic psychology need to be documented for judicial analysis as most of the conclusions are key aspects in legal proceedings. According Dignity • Forensic psychologists perceive others as worthy of respect. This increases the chances of the psychologists making ethical decisions. • Forensic psychologists are required to value each person that they represent despite their personal feelings and opinions and treat them with humanity (Hall and Poirier, 2021).

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Conclusion • In forensic psychology, there is a need for the professionals involved to uphold professional and ethical judgments. • Being involved in previous experiences and activities that affect them professionally, or in their personal lives affects their capacity to maintain moral values. • This may impede poor judgment and thus negatively affect the people that they represent. • Therefore, forensic psychologists need to anticipate any forms of conflict in their profession and ensure that they adhere to professional and ethical guidelines that prevent any obstacle in the profession and towards a positive relationships with clients and co-workers ( Varela and Conroy, 2012) .

References • Allan, A., 2018. Moral challenges for psychologists working in psychology and law. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law , 25 (3), pp.485- 499. • Gudjonsson, G.H. and Haward, L.R., 2016. Forensic psychology: A guide to practice . Routledge. • Hall, H.V. and Poirier, J. eds., 2021. Forensic psychology and neuropsychology for criminal and civil cases . CRC Press. • Varela, J.G. and Conroy, M.A., 2012. Professional competencies in forensic psychology. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice , 43 (5), p.410.

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