Guided Response

Guided Response

Guided Response: Review several of your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion.

Analyze your peer’s plan to establish trust and protect confidentiality. If you were a supervisor or employee in this instance, would this plan work for you? Why, or why not? How might this plan be strengthened? Critically examine and reconcile any discrepancies between your classmate’s plan and your own. Suggest improvements or alternatives that might be included to increase honest participation by the stakeholders. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. MST on Day 7 of the week and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post.

In any field in Psychology, it’s extremely important for confidentiality and ethics to be at the forefront of our minds the entire time we are working with our clients. “Standard 3.11 of the code is new and pertains specifically to those psychologists delivering services “to or through organizations.” It requires, among other things, the psychologist to make clear who the client is (e.g., the employer and not employees who will be assessed), limits on confidentiality for any information collected, and how the information will be used” (Knapp, ND). Therefore, we need to make sure everyone is aware of why we are there before we start any evaluations and that sometimes confidentiality may be hard to accomplish depending on the assessment being done. I would then ask everyone to sign a consent agreement that includes my job title, reason I’m there, wo the clients are and if there are any limits to a confidentiality agreement.

Before anything else I would need to establish that the company who asked for my services would be my clients; not so much the employees. It would still be important to maintain confidentiality as much as possible but still explaining that it might be limited depending on the information at the end. To gain trust I would be very open and honest about what I’m doing there, why I’ve been asked there and what I will be looking for. They would ultimately have the option to not sign a consent form but that will be up to the client on what to do with that employee. Being open and honest from the beginning will allow the clients employees to trust that I’m doing my job ethically/morally.

Resources:

Fisher, M. A. (2009). Replacing ‘who is the client?’ with a different ethical question. Professional Psychology: Research And Practice, 40(1), 1-7. doi:10.1037/a0014011

Knapp, D. (2003). The Ethical Practice of I-O Psychology. Retrieved from

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