ABSTRACT

The foregoing considerations have led the Committee to the formulation of a series of basic principles which clinical psychologist believe will serve as useful guides to psychology in its relationships with any other profession and will also have an important bearing on psychologists' relations with colleagues in other scientific disciplines. Guided primarily by the criterion of social welfare, the American Psychological Association, as the official national organization of psychologists who function as researchers, teachers, practitioners, and administrators, accepts full responsibility for coordinating the development and functioning of the profession of psychology. Psychology is concerned with the application of the methods of science to the problems of human behavior. As teachers, psychologists accept and share the ethics and ideals of the teaching professions. As administrators of the professional activities of psychologists and/or other professional persons, psychologists accept and share the responsibilities and ethics of persons serving in an administrative capacity.