Posts Tagged: psychological ethics

Ending Psychotherapy: Don’t Slip Out the Back Jack!

Posted by & filed under Abnormal Psychology, Interpersonal Attraction Close Relationships, Intervention: Adults-Couples, Intervention: Identifying Key Elements of Change, Legal Ethical Issues, mental illness, Motivation-Emotion, Psychological Intervention, Treatment of Psychological Disorders.

Description: Think about how relationships tend to go for you. Think about how relationships end for you (assuming you have had one or two relationships end). Now imagine you have been seeing a psychotherapist for the past 6 months, perhaps to help you sort of what is or did go on in your relationships. How… Read more »

Football, Will Smith and CTE

Posted by & filed under Clinical Neuropsychology, Legal Ethical Issues, Neuroscience, Psychophysical Disorders Health Psychology, Research Methods, Social Psychology.

Description: The recently released Will Smith film, Concussion, dramatizes a rising concern over the long-term effects of head injuries suffered by professional football players (among other athletes). This video story reports on a study in which the brains of former NFL players would passed away were autopsied and studied in detail for the effects of… Read more »

Pilots and Depression: Ethical Issues and Considerations

Posted by & filed under Abnormal Psychology, Adult Development and Aging, Assessment: Clinical Decision Making, Assessment: Interviewing Observation, Assessment: Self-report Projective Measures, Clinical Health Psychology, Depression, Intervention: Adults-Couples, Intervention: Identifying Key Elements of Change, Legal Ethical Issues, Psychological Health, Psychological Intervention, Psychophysical Disorders Health Psychology, Social Perception, Stress Coping - Health, Treatment of Psychological Disorders, Uncategorized.

Description: It appears that the co-pilot of the Germanwings plane (on March 24, 2015) locked the pilot and remaining crew out of the cockpit and deliberately flew the plane into a mountainside killing everyone on board. Discussion and speculation about his mental health status and his previous struggles with depression raise a number of ethical… Read more »