PSYC 829
Ethical & Professional Issues
Fall 2025 · Ethical and Professional Issues
Topics
- Ethics
- Learning
- Decision making
- Health care
- Relationships
- Counselling
Readings
- Listed material: Truscott, Derek and Crook, Kenneth. Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada. Revised and expanded edition. PICA Press 2013 (available online through the Queen’s library – no need to buy, unless you want your own copy)
Fall 2024
Topics
- Learning
- Ethics
- Decision making
- Health care
- Relationships
Readings
- Listed material: Truscott, D., & Crook, K. H. (2021). Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada. University of Al- berta. Pica Pica Press. (available online through the Queen’s library – no need to buy, unless you want your own copy).
- Listed material: See Class Schedule and Required Reading for a full list.
- Listed material: CPA Code of Ethics--see Canadian Psychological Association 4th edition (2017). Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologists. Ottawa: CPA. online at http://cpa.ca/aboutcpa/committees/eth- ics/codeofethics/
- Listed material: CPA 10 Step Process for Ethical Decision Making (also on pp. 4 of the Code of Ethics) https://collegeofpsychologists.bc.ca/applicants/owsp/files/10%20Steps%20-%20Ethical%20Deci- sion%20Making.pdf
- Listed material: The College of Psychologists of Ontario: Standards of Profession Conduct https://cpo.on.ca/members/professional-practice/standards-of-professional-conduct/
- Listed material: The College of Psychologists of Ontario: Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Clients and Mandatory Re- porting https://cpo.on.ca/cpo_resources/prevention-of-sexual-abuse-of-clients-and-mandatory-reporting/
- Listed material: The College of Psychologists of Ontario: Professional Boundaries in Health Care Relationships https://cpo.on.ca/cpo_resources/professional-boundaries-in-health-care-relationships/
- Listed material: https://www.crpo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/List-of-Reporting-Obligations.pdf
- Listed material: https://cpbao.ca/members/professional-practice/mandatory-and-non-mandatory-report- ing/#:~:text=It%20may%20be%20that%20your,abuse%20patients%20in%20the%20future.
- Listed material: Not required reading (this isn’t a jurispridence class) but a link to legislation relevant to psychologi- cal practice in Ontario: https://cpbao.ca/cpo_resources/legislation/
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus / course outline ↗Fall 2025
- Syllabus / course outline ↗Fall 2024