Assignment:
Eating disorder symptoms
This is about eating disorder symptoms
What if this a scenario as a professional psychologist facing a difficult ethical dilemma.
As you personally have some unresolved eating disorder symptoms, can you ethically provide therapy to a client suffering from an eating disorder until you have successfully treated your own?
Step 1. Identify the situation that requires ethical
consideration and decision making.
Step 2. Anticipate who will be affected by your decision.
Step 3. Figure out who, if anyone, is the client.
Step 4. Assess your relevant areas of competence?and of
missing knowledge, skills, experience, or expertise?in regard to the relevant aspects of this situation.
Step 5. Review relevant formal ethical standards.
Step 6.Review relevant legal standards.
Step 7.Review the relevant research and theory.
Step 8. Consider how, if at all, your personal feelings, biases, or self-interest might affect your ethical judgment and reasoning.
Step 9. Consider what effects, if any, that social, cultural, religious, or similar factors may have on the situation and on identifying ethical responses.
Step 10. Consider consultation.
Step 11.Develop alternative courses of action.
Step 12.Evaluate the alternative courses of action.
Step 13.Try to adopt the perspective of each person who will be affected.
Step 14.Decide what to do, and then review or reconsider it.