ABSTRACT
Mental health professionals thinking about using the psychotechnologies should review current ethical guidelines when considering practice innovations. The technological landscape is so diverse and changeable that most codes and rules are subjected to complaints, appeals, and desperate searches for loopholes by professionals and clients alike. Mental health professionals have only begun to collect data about the degree to which members believe in or comply with their professional associations’ standards of conduct (e.g., Pope, Tabachnick, & Keith-Spiegel, 1987). Data are not readily available to inform either the clinical decisions of individual practitioners or the attempts of relevant professional associations to extend formal standards of practice to new areas, such as online clinical practice.
