1st Edition
Ethical Issues in Psychology A Critical Introduction
1. Right and wrong
1.1. How ethical judgements affect people
1.2. What are ethics?
1.3. Becoming moral and behaving morally
2. Ethical issues and how to deal with them
2.1. Ethical principles and the issues they bring up
2.2. Examples of ethical principles
2.3. Professional integrity
2.4. Can we justify unethical research?
2.5. Strategies used to deal with ethical issues
3. Ethical principles and guidelines
3.1. The British Psychological Society Code of Ethics and Conduct
3.2. BPS Code of Human Research Ethics
3.3. Limitations of ethical principles as a way of resolving ethical issues
3.4. Other guidance
3.5. Using the principles and guidelines to judge research
4. Psychology in practice
4.1. Ethical guidelines for practitioners
4.2. Military psychology
4.3. Media psychologists
4.4. Psychologists and therapy
4.5. Conclusion
5. Psychology’s missing ethics
5.1. The wider context
5.2. Racism and psychology
5.3. Making us crazy
6. Ethics and methods
6.1. Qualitative methods
6.2. Socially sensitive research
6.3. Internet-mediated research (IMR)
6.4. Psychological research with animals
Glossary
References
Index
Biography
Philip Banyard is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He was a chief examiner of A level psychology for many years and has written more than 20 texts.
Cara Flanagan is a freelance academic author and lecturer. She has published a wide range of books covering general topics in psychology, as well as research methods and ethics. She is senior editor of Psychology Review, a magazine for A level students.
