2010 Amendments to the 2002 "Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct"

The following amendments to the 2002 "Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct" (the Ethics Code; American Psychological Association, 2002) were adopted by the APA Council of Representatives at its February 2010 meeting. The changes involve the last two sentences of the fina...

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Published in:The American psychologist 2010-07, Vol.65 (5), p.493-493
Main Author: [Unknown]
Format: Article
Language:English
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Amendments
American Psychological Association
Codes of conduct
Codes of Ethics
Ethics, Professional
Humans
Professional Ethics
Professional Personnel
Psychologists
Psychology - ethics
Scientific Communication
Societies, Scientific - ethics
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Summary:The following amendments to the 2002 "Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct" (the Ethics Code; American Psychological Association, 2002) were adopted by the APA Council of Representatives at its February 2010 meeting. The changes involve the last two sentences of the final paragraph of the Introduction and Applicability section and Ethical Standards 1.02 and 1.03. The amendments became effective June 1, 2010. A history of these amendments to the Ethics Code is provided in the "Report of the Ethics Committee, 2009" in this issue of the American Psychologist (American Psychological Association, Ethics Committee, 2010). Following are a clean version of the revisions and a version indicating changes from the 2002 language (inserted text is underlined; deleted text is crossed out).
ISSN:0003-066X
1935-990X
DOI:10.1037/a0020168