The article contains a critical analysis of the Code of Ethics for Psychologists by the Polish Psychological Association, which is in place from year 1991 to 2018. The aim of the article is to point to inadequate, unclear, or leading to incoherent interpretations regulations found in this Code. The first part of the text describes functions and also benefits as well as dangers connected with ethical codes in general. The second part is an analysis looking for inaccuracies and incoherencies in the Code’s content. At the end, there are illustrated the main issues requiring an update or a thorough change in the future versions of the Code’s approach to capture the norms of psychologists’ profession.
The article contains a review of basic notions connected with the consequences of an increasing multiculturalism of Polish society for the professional ethics of a psychologist in a clinical context. In the first part the issues connected with a psychological diagnosis of people of different cultural background are presented. Also, a notion of a culturally sensitive diagnosis and a specificity of interpersonal communication in a multicultural environment are described. In the second part, issues regarding psychotherapy and psychological help for people of different cultural backgrounds, with a particular attention drawn to a therapy of families culturally diverse, where the rules of communicative school of the system therapy gain an additional value are described. In both parts of the article, a particular attention is given to the contemporary understanding of the notion of cultural competency in the work of psychologists-practitioners.
The article contains a review of basic notions connected with the consequences of an increasing multiculturalism of Polish society for the professional ethics of a psychologist in a clinical context. In the first part the issues connected with a psychological diagnosis of people of different cultural background are presented. Also, a notion of a culturally sensitive diagnosis and a specificity of interpersonal communication in a multicultural environment are described. In the second part, issues regarding psychotherapy and psychological help for people of different cultural backgrounds, with a particular attention drawn to a therapy of families culturally diverse, where the rules of communicative school of the system therapy gain an additional value are described. In both parts of the article, a particular attention is given to the contemporary understanding of the notion of cultural competency in the work of psychologists-practitioners.
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