Can any of you clinical and counselling Psychologist help me with this question?

Question

The following scenarios consists of a wide variety of ethical dilemmas that can face Psychologists in the clinical and counselling fields. In order to resolve these dilemmas please use the American Psychological Association’s ethical codes. In providing your answers please ensure that you:

• cite all relevant codes
• clearly highlight the relevance of each code selected
• identify whether there has been an ethical breach with supporting evidence
• suggest alternative strategies or possible solutions to the dilemmas presented.
• format your answers in short-essay form.

a) After the first two sessions the client brings an expensive gift (diamond earrings) for the clinical psychologist which she graciously accepts. The client attends four more treatment sessions, and refuses to pay for them, and then terminates therapy. The therapist sends photocopies of the client’s file to a collection agency.

b) The client shares with his therapist how his father has already put his mother’s BMW car up for sale, just two weeks after her death. He thinks that his father is trying to wipe out any memory of his mother, and uses the fact that he has put her car up for sale at a very low price as an example of his haste to rid himself of her mother’s memory. After the session the counselling psychologist contacts the client’s father and purchases the car.

c) As part of his undergraduate Introduction to Psychology course, the psychology lecturer discusses psychological assessment. The professor demonstrates the Thematic Apperception Test by showing the class a TAT card, getting a response from one of the students, and then interpreting the response in front of the class.

d) A clinical psychologist is about to begin providing services to the 14-year-old son of a farmer. The farmer can not afford to pay money for the service. Prior to the first session with the son, the psychologist and the farmer decide that the psychologist will receive one year’s supply of ground provisions (Yams and Sweet potatoes) for a family of four as payment for two therapy sessions.

I just want a professional view point so I can see if i'm going in the right direction.

Answer 1

Hahaha…okay so I’m not gonna do your homework, but I’d be more than happy to help you find the specific ethical violations that are described in each vignette using the APA Ethics Code: http://www.apa.org/ethics/code2002.html.

Scenario A: 3.08 Exploitative Relationships

Scenario B: 3.04 Avoiding Harm, 3.05 Multiple Relationships, 3.06 Conflict of Interest

Scenario C: 9.11 Maintaining Test Security

Scenario D: 6.05 Barter with Clients/Patients (hint, hint = this is obviously not a fair trade, the shrink’s family is gonna eat for a year off of a farmer whose son is only getting TWO sessions [clinically, you can’t get SQUAT accomplish in two sessions, its take 2 sessions just to formulate the problem and get a decent history done])! ...can you say exploitative?

*I know I said I wasn’t gonna do your homework but I just couldn’t help myself, so that’s a freebie.