ISSP Registered Practitioners Principles

Principles of ISSP Registered Practitioners

• Beneficence and Non-Maleficence: A practitioner prioritizes the welfare of clients and their profession over their own self-interest.
• Respect for People's Rights and Dignity: Practitioners must respect the dignity and worth of individuals, their right to privacy, confidentiality, self-determination, and justice.
• Social Justice and Responsibility: Actions are based on fairness, avoiding discrimination on any basis proscribed by law, and taking precautions to ensure biases do not lead to unjust practices.
• Competence, Expertise, and Proficiency: Practitioners provide services strictly within their competence, which means providing the services to a requisite professional standard.
• Professional and Scientific Responsibility: Practitioners rely on valid and reliable scientific frameworks, theories, and constructs when providing services.
• Integrity and Propriety: Practitioners act with honesty and fairness in research, teaching, practice, and reporting to clients and the public.

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• Avoiding Harm: Practitioners act beneficently, mitigating, limiting, and/or avoiding any harm that could be unjust and cause significant damage physically, mentally, or socially.
• Multicultural and Diversity Awareness: Practitioners respect cultural, individual, and role differences, taking steps to eliminate the effect of biases on their work and avoiding discriminatory practices.
• Exploitation of Clients: Practitioners promote honesty, probity, accuracy, clarity, and fairness in interactions, ensuring integrity in professional practice, contributing to client welfare, and avoiding harmful dual relationships.
• Multiple Role Relationships: Practitioners must be aware of and manage situations where there is a professional relationship and another relationship with the same person or a closely associated person.
• Confidentiality in Professional Work: Practitioners are obligated to protect confidential information acquired through their professional work, keeping it confidential across all mediums, with decisions regarding confidentiality made in line with legal and organizational requirements.
• Impaired Professionals: Practitioners have the skills, knowledge, character, and health to safely and effectively practice. Impairment can be professional, as in the ability to practice, or in conduct that may affect the public or undermine public confidence in the profession.
• Informed Consent: Practitioners obtain informed consent for services using language that is reasonably understandable to the person or organization.
• Documentation and Record Keeping: Practitioners create and maintain records relating to their professional work to facilitate services, allow for replication of research, respect confidentiality, address client welfare, meet institutional requirements, ensure billing accuracy, and comply with legal requirements.
• Conflicting Demands/Conflicts of Interest: Practitioners are aware of their professional duties and responsibilities, and prioritize the interests of others over personal benefits.
• The Use of Technology: Practitioners stay current with technology changes and developments, considering both communication methods and integrative parts of service provision using technology.
• Referrals: Practitioners work within their own boundaries of competence, referring clients to other professionals when necessary, and cooperating with other institutions in the client's best interest.
• Competence: Practitioners maintain the highest standards of competence to protect the safety and well-being of service users, the integrity of the field, and their own professional status.
• Supervision: Practitioners pursue professional excellence throughout their careers through ongoing supervision, which is essential for continued development.
• Bartering and Financial Arrangements: Practitioners have clear agreements with clients and supervisees regarding billing and compensation.
• Assessment: Practitioners use a range of assessment methods, including psychological tests, behavioral observations, interviews, and questionnaires, to support professional practice and service provision. Key ethical considerations include competence, informed consent, confidentiality, communication of results, security of assessment data and records, and acquisition and disposal of tests.
• Termination of Services: When terminating a professional relationship, practitioners consider the processes inherent in the services, the personal aspects of the client's well-being, and all factors influencing the service delivery process.

This quiz evaluates your understanding of the ethical principles guiding ISSP Registered Practitioners. It covers key concepts such as beneficence, respect for rights, social justice, and professional responsibility. Test your knowledge on the essential conduct expected in this profession.