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Kar

Pedagógiai és Pszichológiai Kar

Szervezet

PPK Pszichológiai Intézet

Kód

PSYM21-103

Cím

Field-Specific Communicational Skill Trainings, Professional Issues and Ethical Problems in Psychology

Tervezett félév

Tavaszi

Meghirdetve

2025/26/2

ECTS

4

Nyelv

en

Oktatás célja

The course has multiple aims. It provides an opportunity to improve field-specific communication skills in the different specialisations and to practice cooperative, self-reflective modes of functioning. The different specialisations may focus on different communication topics and challenges that can be important in that specific field of psychology (nonverbal communication, assertivity; leadership skills, patient-therapist communication characteristics, etc.). After accustoming to groupwork, field-specific ethical issues, challenges, possible solutions are also discussed.

Tantárgy tartalma

The purpose of the course is to provide a general ethical guidance to cover typical situations encountered by professional psychologists. The evolution of moral behaviours, history of professional psychologists’ ethical codes, fundamental ethical principles of psychologists, relationship between legal and ethical issues, and evaluative procedures and corrective actions in case of complaints about unethical conduct will be covered by lectures, problems and dilemmas emerging in the practical application of professional ethics will be discussed in seminars. As a senior level, topics will be discussed via movies, interviews and case examples through which to professional ethics topics to be actively raised, discussed, and related to other studies within psychology. Date 12-13:30 Topic of the class Presentation by (Name + NEPTUN) 12 Feb Introduction, requirements Kata 19 Feb Codes of ethics 26 Feb Informed consent 04 March Confidentiality 11 March Research and publication ethics 18 March film Soul keeper (Jung) 25 March Competency - 08 April Relational issues 15 April Internet 22 April Financial issues 29 April Dilemmas 06 May Dilemmas No presentation 13 May Closing No presentation

Számonkérés és értékelés

Your final grade will be based upon three requirements: Item                                                                                Points 1. Participation, Attendance, Preparedness                  100 2. Presentation in class                                                 100 3. Interview: ethical dilemma                                       100 Total Points                                                                                 300 Marks:     5          270-300                  4          241-269                  3          211-240                  2          181-210                  1          180 or less Participation (all the groups): This requirement has two parts: attendance and contribution to class discussion. If you contribute to class discussion by speaking, listening taking part in the exercises and being prepared, you will receive full “contribution” credit. You are allowed to miss at most three classes. Participation is particularly important in a practical format that relies on individuals contributing to group discussion. In case on online classes the participation means “join the meeting with camera on”. Your attendance will be scored as below: Attendance: Being present at the classes: Contribution: expressing your opinion, taking part in the discussions, etc. 12=100%, Always, regularly: 100%, 11=90%, most of the times= 80%, 10=80%, sometimes=60%, 9-0=0% rarely=40%, never, but attentive=20%, never and bored=0% 2. Presentation in class (one by one / in pairs): Topics can be chosen from the course syllabus or an approved extra topic. The discussion should include a powerpoint presentation and preferably one exercise for the class. Length must be 20 minutes for the presentation and 10-20 minutes for discussion. It may include an ethical dilemma related to the topic. Presentation must be based on contemporary research, references and list of at least 6 logically referred references must be included and submitted. NOTE: reference must be in English and must be academic. 3. Collecting and analysing an ethical dilemma based on an interview of a psychologist (preferably from your country). The psychologist should be asked to report a dilemma from his/her practice, masking the features of the original case (confidentiality). The interview should be transcribed and analyzed (=appr. Half-1 page of analysis) by you. PLEASE FOLLOW THE STEPS OF MAKING THE INTERVIEW AS LISTED: Steps (important!!!): Contact a psychologist and inform him/her about the task. Inform him/her that the collected material SHOULD be used in a class discussion, and upon his/her agreement in a later collected teaching book. In a personal (face to face) situation record the report of the psychologist. Inform the psychologist that this recording will serve as a basis of later transcript (by you). No-one else will listen to it. Following the transcript, the recording will be deleted. Your questions: Please tell me a situation of your professional practice when you faced an ethical dilemma What did you do? How did you make the decision? Have you had any help or support to your decision? (e.g. consultation with colleague, reading the ethical code, etc.) Transcribe / translate verbatim the report. At the beginning of the file put the „number of working years” and „area of practice” of the psychologist (e.g. 1-5, private practice). The filename should be your: NEPTUN code,_family name_and date (ddmmyyyy) of the recording: eg: GUU3RG_Varga_15022024 Send the transcript to the psychologist, to get his/her agreement to hand it in. If s/he ask a modification: make it. Delete the recording Ask him/her to sign the Consent, and a scanned version should be inserted into the transcript (same word file contains the text and a photo / screenshot of the consent). The paper version of the consent remains with you. In case of doubt or question: contact me at: varga.katalin@ppk.elte.hu Dear Colleague! The person who contacted you is a student of psychology MA at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. As a part of the requirements of Professional Ethics class s/he is collecting real ethical dilemmas occurring during psychological practice. Sharing your professional experience - a real ethical dilemma - you help us to enrich university training. I kindly ask you to mask appropriately the person(s) involved in the story: not sharing real names or other details that could brake confidentiality. We would like to use the collected dilemmas in our Ethics classes, and later a published handbook (just as we did in the Hungarian edition of a similar book: Varga, K. Psychological ethics – in the light of 99 dilemmas). Please specify the following data For how long have you been working as psychologist (please circle the appropriate range): 1-5,   5-10,   10-15,   15-20,   20-25,   25-30,   30-35,   35+ years Please specify your closer field: (e.g. private praxis, institutional psychologist, organizational psychology, clinical psychologist working in a hospital) ……………………………………………………………………………………………. If you have any question or would like to share your opinion regarding this project, please contact me: varga.katalin@ppk.elte.hu Thank you, yours sincerely:               Prof. Katalin Varga (Orcid: 0000-0003-0141-6596) CONSENT I agree to participate in the project of collecting Ethical Dilemmas by Eötvös Loránd University. My participation is voluntary. I understand that this is a teaching material, I do not expect any financial or other compensation. I agree to allow the student to record and transcribe my report. I agree to allow this transcript to be presented in the following circumstances without any further notification.  My permission is valid until withdrawal. (Please put ü to the circles where you allow us to present the transcript): Yes O  No O  - it can be used in the class of the student who interviewed me Yes O  No O  - it can be used in teaching in general (e.g. trainings, university lectures) Yes O  No O  - it can be presented anywhere (e.g. TV programs, programs for lay audience) Yes O  No O  - it can be printed in teaching book of Psychological Ethics Date: ……………………. 20 …             ….......……                          ……………………………… signature * * If you prefer NOT to disclose your name, please put an X at signature Name (PRINT), signature and NEPTUN code of the student: …………………………………………………………………………………………………… All these should be submitted in electronic version. Please carefully follow the way of handing in, any deviation will reduce the score: Filename: your NEPTUN code and family name, and the date of the interview ddmmyyyy Subject of the mail should be: DILEMMA ETHICS group A/B/C Deadline: midnight 15.04. You should send me ONE file only, that includes (1) the transcript, (2) the analysis and (3) the PHOTO of the SIGNED consent (at least by you). Please also make sure that the interewee ticks all the 4 possibilities of presentation (only class, tv etc.): yes or no. Any deviation from these will result in a lower grade.

Irodalomjegyzék

Compulsory and reading European Federation of Psychologists Associations: Ethical Codes. Source: http://www.efpa.be/ethics.php National Codes of Ethics. POPE, K. S. & VETTER, V. A. Ethical dilemmas encountered by members of the American Psychological Association: A national survey. Source: http://psychology.about.com/od/ethicalissues/ http://www.kspope.com/ BERSOFF, D. (2003) Ethical conflicts in psychology. Washingthon, DC: American Psychological Association. KOOCHER, G. & KEITH-SPIEGEL, P. (1998) Ethics in psychology (2nd edition). Oxford University Press.

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