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The aim of the course is to introduce students to basic ethical and legal issues in the work of a psychologist. These questions are an integral and very important aspect of the performance of the psychological profession.
The course will cover the following topics:
Basic concepts of ethics, moral development
- good and evil
- norm and normality
- conscience and responsibility
- freedom and free will, guilt
- ethics, morality, etiquette
- natural and positive law
A history of ethics
- The Hippocratic Oath
- the emergence and development of modern ethical codes
- ethical codes of psychologists
- ethical codes of patients and clients
Ethical issues in healthcare
- definition of health
- the status of the human body and body organs, transplantation
- fertilization in vivo, in vitro, cloning, genetic engineering
- death, euthanasia, suicide, abortion
- allocation of scarce resources
Ethical issues in counseling
General ethical questions in the work of a psychologist
- the relationship between the psychologist and the patient
- dominance
- power
- competence
- maturity
Ethics in the work of a psychologist
- psychodiagnosis
- psychotherapy and counseling
- forensic expertise
- a psychologist in the role of a teacher
- psychologist in relation to psychologists
Special ethical and legal issues in the work of a psychologist
right to information
- informed consent
- documentation management
- confidentiality and data protection
- notification obligation
- information for state authorities
- protection of test methods
patient/client protection
- the ethics of the origin of life and the birth of a person
- the ethics of the disabled
- ethics of the sick
- the ethics of communicating serious news to the dying
- euthanasia
- patient participation in research
- internships at the workplace
- the issue of involuntary psychiatric hospitalization
- competence of the child patient
Professional ethics
- the issue of private psychological practice
- sponsoring, donations, advertising
- psychological procedures of lege artis
- appearance of the psychologist in the media
Legal regulations concerning the work of a psychologist
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Kurz je zakončen zápočtem. Podmínkou získání zápočtu je aktivní účast, diskuze během výuky a písemné zpracování seminární práce - na zadaný etický problém. Témata seminárního úkolu budou představeny při prvním setkání. Last update: Presslerová Pavla, PhDr., Ph.D. (29.01.2026)
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Baštecká,B.,Goldmann,P.: Základy klinické psychologie. Portál, Praha, 2001. Haškovcová, H.: Lékařská etika. Galén, Praha, 1997. Kopřiva,K.: Lidský vztah jako součást profese. Praha, Portál, 2001. Schmidbauer,W.: Psychická úskalí pomáhajících profesí. Praha, Portál, 2000. Weiss, P.: Etické otázky v psychologii. Praha: Portál, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7367-845-6 Etický kodex EFPPA, ČMPS, AKP, Psychoterapeutické sekce při ČLS JEP a další aktuální etické kodexy a vyhlášky týkající se profese psychologa v ČR Last update: Presslerová Pavla, PhDr., Ph.D. (29.01.2026)
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Tematický sylabus kurzu: Blok 1 Etické pozadí práce psychologa
Blok 2 Problémové a citlivé etické výzvy v práci psychologa
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