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Ethics: Ethics Committee
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The Ethics Committee seeks critical incidents/vignettes concerning the casebook/commentary on psychological ethics and national security. The goal of the casebook/commentary is to provide ethical guidance to psychologists advising or consulting to national security-related interrogations.
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This study found that in six states, most hospices (73 percent) had access to some type of ethics committee; ... less than 1/3 maintain a hospice-specific ethics committee. Social workers, although integral to the hospice team, were only members of about one-half of the hospice committees. Further, the study examined social workers' current participation and role expectations of social workers and committee chairs for social work participation. Both groups viewed that social workers were important contributors and expected higher participation in all the three main activity areas--case consultation, policy, and education--than currently took place. As the particular skills and values of social work parallel both the purpose of ethics committees and hospice philosophy, and as these data suggest, opportunity exists for social workers to take on a greater role on hospice ethics committee and may be an important resource in the formation of such committees.
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"Speaker Pelosi can take other immediate steps to promote ethics. For instance, she forced Rep. Alan Mollohan (D-WV) to resign as Chairman of the Ethics Committee, but he continues to serve on the Appropriations Committee. Because Mollohan is under federal investigation, he should be relieved of that post as well."
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In 1990, confidentiality accounted for only 2% of the primary category of active cases before the APA ethics committee ("Report of the Ethics Committee," 1991), yet participants in this research reported more struggles with confidentiality than any other category. This illustrates what the creators of the initial APA ethics code emphasized-that there may be a significant discrepancy between the ethical dilemmas encountered by the membership and the complaints received by the ethics committee, and therefore revisions to the code should be informed by the former as well as the latter.
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"If Congress were serious about ethics, it would reduce government spending, the inducement for special interests to seek influence. It would ... end earmarking. This practice has allowed the leadership of both parties to corrupt the rank-and-file, the Democrats to corrupt the Republicans and vice-versa, and the Appropriations Committee to corrupt everyone."
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Eleven dilemmas in this area reflected concern about ethics, licensing, and related committees. Three described how committees were too slow to take action or were inactive because of such factors as the threat of litigation. The other diverse concerns about committees included their "presumption of guilt" and "police method," the problem of an ethical violator sitting on the committee, the redundancy of different level (i.e., local, state, and national) committees, and the potential conflict of interest when members are competitive with those they investigate.
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