Ethics

Ethical Guidelines

These Ethical Guidelines (hereinafter referred to as the Guidelines) developed by the Psychological Society of SA  (PsySSA)  recognize individual  responsibility to assure ethical behaviour and attitudes on the part of all professionals in the discipline (i.e. psychologists, registered counsellors, intern psychologists, post-graduate students, psychometrists, psychotechnicians). All such person’s will hereafter be referred to generically in this document as “psychologists”. Attempts to ensure ethical behaviour and attitudes include articulating ethical principles, values and standards; promoting those principles, values, and standards through education, peer modelling, and consultation; developing and implementing methods to help psychologists monitor the ethics of their behaviour and attitudes; adjudicating complaints of unethical behaviour; and, taking corrective action when warranted.

These Guidelines articulate ethical principles and rules of ethical conduct to guide all psychologists, whether scientists, practitioners, or scientist practitioners, or whether acting in a research, direct service, teaching, student, administrative, supervisory, management, consultative, peer review, editorial, expert witness, social policy or any other role related to the discipline of psychology.