ABSTRACT
A professional discipline’s ethical code is meant to reflect the profession’s values and purposes, and it is the individual’s responsibility to know, understand and professionally abide by the standards for the professional group of which they are a member. However, teaching ethics cannot be a mere communication of professional codes. The chapter will begin by briefly commenting on ethical codes in the UK and those of other countries to exemplify how professional ethical codes are borne out of particular contexts. This will be followed by thinking about the link between the personal and professional, ways in which we can harness trainees’ development as ethical professionals and then measuring teaching and practice/placement outcomes in relation to ethics. The aim of this chapter is to be of use to trainers and trainees in any of the diverse professional training courses available for psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists and other health and social care professionals, such as social workers, psychiatrists or occupational therapists.
