The American Psychological Association (APA) has appointed eleven ethics experts to serve as an Ethics Code Task Force, charged with analysing and evaluating its 'Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct' and recommending revisions as appropriate.
The last comprehensive review and revision of APA's Ethics Code was completed 15 years ago.
Task force members were chosen by the Ethics Committee and approved by APA's Board of Directors. The panel comprises 10 psychologists and a non-psychologist public member, and is led by Dr. Linda Campbell, Chair and Dr. Mark Leach, Vice Chair.
Campbell is a professor in the department of counselling and human development services and director of the Center for Counseling at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Leach is a professor and chair of the department of counselling and human development at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. Jennifer Kelly will act as the 2018 liaison from the board of directors. She is director of the Atlanta Center for Behavioral Medicine.
The task force, after soliciting public comment, will report its findings and recommendations to the Ethics Committee, which will forward a final version of the code to APA's Council of Representatives.
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