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Course Syllabus

2022/2023

Ethics for Psychologists

Type: Mago-Lego
Delivered by: Institute of Education
When: 2 module
Open to: students of all HSE University campuses
Instructors: Tatjana Kanonire
Language: English
ECTS credits: 3
Contact hours: 30

Course Syllabus

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Abstract

Ethics in Psychology is an elective course, targeted primarily at the master's students at Science of Learning and Assessment program. This course will cover the legal and ethical issues inherent in the conduct and process of professional psychology. Topics which will be included for consideration are: confidentiality, ethical competence, researcher ethics, malpractice, recognizing ethical dilemmas. This course will also cover basic documents and procedures for dealing with ethical issues in research. In modern academic and professional environments, adherence to professional ethics is becoming an integral part of the professional standard, especially in areas directly related to humans’ involvement, whether they are clients or research participants. As a part of this course, students will get acquainted with ethical standards accepted in the academic environment and among practicing specialists (psychologists) and the main international and Russian ethical codes. In addition, we will consider all stages of planning and conducting research through the lens of ethics and analyzing new ethical challenges in psychology and social sciences in general. We will also solve different cases of ethical violations and ethical dilemmas looking for a more appropriate solution.
Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives

  • Provide students with the main ethical principles and their practical application
  • Make students sensitive to ethical violations and dilemmas
Expected Learning Outcomes

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • ability to conduct research according to ethical principles
  • ability to prepare informed consent forms and documents for the university's ethical committee
  • knowledge of basic documents that regulate professional and academic ethics
  • knowledge of scientific research ethical principles professional practice
  • recognition of scientific research ethical principles professional practice
Course Contents

Course Contents

  • Russian and international professional ethical standards
  • Analysis of ethical principles with examples. Ethical dilemma
  • Ethics of scientific research. Getting acceptance from ethical committee. Planning the research. Getting necessary documents. Analyses and interpretation of the results
  • Ethics in professional practice
  • Informed consent forms
  • Ethical considerations in test development, adaptation and use
  • New ethical challenges in social sciences: online research, data availability, etc.
Assessment Elements

Assessment Elements

  • non-blocking Homework 1
    Presentation of analysis of ethical code structure and main indicated principles.
  • non-blocking Homework 2
    Preparation of informed consent for students’ further research or hypothetical research in case if student plan to work with secondary data.
  • non-blocking Homework 3
    Presentation of ethical case
  • non-blocking Final work
    Test (multiple-choice questions and case analysis)
Interim Assessment

Interim Assessment

  • 2022/2023 2nd module
    0.2 * Homework 2 + 0.2 * Homework 3 + 0.4 * Final work + 0.2 * Homework 1
Bibliography

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

  • Ethics : history, theory, and contemporary issues, , 2009
  • Handbook of professional ethics for psychologists : issues, questions, and controversies, , 2003
  • Kevin Lewis, Jason Kaufman, Marco Gonzalez, Andreas Wimmer, & Nicholas Christakis. (2009). Tastes, ties, and time: A new social network dataset using Facebook.com. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.F6301593
  • Paoletti, I., Menendez, F., & Tomas, M. I. (2013). Practices of Ethics : An Empirical Approach to Ethics in Social Sciences Research. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=632088
  • Research methods and statistics in psychology, Coolican, H., 2009
  • Черепанова, М. (2013). Этический Кодекс В Контексте Социальной Философии. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsbas&AN=edsbas.E34DC7E0

Recommended Additional Bibliography

  • Ferrero, A., Korkut, Y., Leach, M., Lindsay, G., & Stevens, M. (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Psychological Ethics. : Oxford University Press,(или более поздние издания). – URL: http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199739165.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199739165.– ЭБС: Oxford Handbooks Online

Authors

  • KANONIR TATYANA NIKOLAYEVNA