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Community Mental Health Service Providers' Codes of Ethics and the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing
Author(s) -
Vacc Nicholas A.,
Juhnke Gerald A.,
Nilsen Keith A.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.2001.tb01963.x
Subject(s) - ethical code , mental health , standards for educational and psychological testing , ethical standards , test (biology) , professional standards , professional ethics , professional association , service (business) , psychology , service provider , association (psychology) , psychological testing , mental health service , professional conduct , medical education , medicine , engineering ethics , public relations , political science , higher education , clinical psychology , psychiatry , business , engineering , law , psychotherapist , paleontology , marketing , education theory , biology
This study compared the codes of ethics of 13 professional organizations for community mental health service providers that have been represented at the meetings of the Fair Access Coalition for Testing with the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (American Educational Research Association [AERA], American Psychological Association [APA], & National Council on Measurement in Education [NCME], 1985) and all those standards cited in the revised Standards (AERA, APA, & NCME, 1999) that the investigators identified as pertaining to clinical assessment, as these standards apply to test users. The results suggest that only 2 of the codes of ethics address many of the Standards. Implications and recommendations for professional organizations are provided.