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Developing and Practicing Ethics

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We bring our personal ethics to graduate school and begin to create our professional ethics. We read about professional ethics, we discuss them in our courses, and we see the individual differences in how they are reflected in our professors’ lives and work.

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Websites

  • http://www.apa.org/ethics At this site the American Psychological Association Ethics Office presents ethics information and resources.

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Pope, K.S. (2003). Developing and Practicing Ethics. In: Prinstein, M.J., Patterson, M.D. (eds) The Portable Mentor. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0099-5_3

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