Ethical Assement Inventory

R. Talbert

Capstones in Psychologyr
July 13, 2011

Ethical Awareness Ethics is an important issue is psychology the American Psychological Association publishes a code of ethics, and conduct for psychologists as standard guidelines in psychology. This essay is an attempt to correlate ethical awareness, and principles to psychology professionals and personal conduct.

Ethical Inventory Chart
Observations from the ethical inventory chart are ways of helping the person assess his or her personal ethics approach to understanding others. This chart assesses personal beliefs and mental abilities in different situations. The results are then totaled to reveal the score, which makes a person aware of psychological issues that may influence decision-making in the future.
Personal, Spiritual, Social, and Organizational, Issues in Psychology
Ethics plays an important part in everyday life. A person working in an environment with people from different cultures, and customs may encounter ethical conflicts. Situations may arise in which ethical decisions may conflict with organizational values. Issues concerning organizational integrity and personal ethical conduct may cause a person to experience negative emotions. Personal, spiritual, and social, growth is important to understanding ones ethical inventory chart. Research indicates that psychological-well-being is directly related to spiritual and social growth (Kowalski, & Westen, 2009).
How Ethics affect Psychological Knowledge and Principles
Personal growth, development, and the health of an individual may affect that persons’ psychological well-being. Knowledge and ethical principles can help guide a person in business situations, and personal issues in life. Research indicates that as a person ages, one becomes more acceptance of different issues in life.
Personal growth may affect how ethical principles affect gender, like women are more likely to experience and accept spiritual well-being before men. The affect of psychological knowledge and principles involving health and personal growth is different at each stage of lifespan development.
The Advantages of Psychology as a Career Choice
Psychology as a career choice for some individuals may be very beneficial, individuals seeking careers in psychology should posse patience, and the desire to help others. A career in psychology takes four to six years of intense work before the individual is ready to earn income in this field. Psychology is an excellent career choice for the person willing to go the distance and earn the degree.
The Influence of Ethic on Career Choice in psychology
The decision to make psychology a career choice usually involves diverse influences, such as the need to understand human behavior. How behavior affects some aspect of society and how individuals and groups influences the majority. Most of the questions and assumptions psychology makes involves ethical choices.
Psychology is one career choice, which lets individuals’ research different segments of society. Cross-Culture research influences diversity in many areas, such as law-enforcement, medicine, mental health, research, corporate, and family-life. A career in psychology gives an individual access to many important disciplines, which uses psychology as a foundation for understanding human behavior (Society of clinical Psychology, 2006).
Summary
This essay examines ethics, and how ethics affect individuals as professional psychologists and in everyday life. The ethical awareness inventory assesses an individuals’ personal ethical perspective. The inventory examines how individuals will react in different situations.
After the ethical awareness inventory; the essay examines spiritual and personal growth, involved in psychology. How ethics will influence ones’ personal life in employment is another issue, which the essay discusses. Applying such principles of knowledge, personal growth and health, are part of the decision format.
The essay examines the role ethics has in ones’ decision to pursue a degree in psychology, and how this degree will affect how the individual maintains ethical conduct and principles. The essay concludes with the results of the personal inventory chart.
Conclusion
This essay begins with the ethical awareness inventory chart, and the assessment of personal ethics . After taking the assessment awareness inventory the results were not fully understood. The result indicates that the individual needs to be more flexible in ethical decisions. According to the inventory assessment personal ethics may conflict with group or organizational values. The personal assessment reveals the individual sees ethical issues in black and white there is no color between a lie and the truth. The personal ethics may conflict in an employment situation.

References
Kowalski, R., and Westen, D.,; (2009) Psychology: The Study of mental process and Behavior: 5th ed. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley and Son. Retrieved (July, 2011)
.http://www.org/about/division/12aspx; American psychological Association (2006) Society of Clinical Psychology: Retrieved online (July, 2011).

References: Kowalski, R., and Westen, D.,; (2009) Psychology: The Study of mental process and Behavior: 5th ed. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley and Son. Retrieved (July, 2011) .http://www.org/about/division/12aspx; American psychological Association (2006) Society of Clinical Psychology: Retrieved online (July, 2011).