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Training ethical psychologists: an acculturation model
Mitchell M Handelsman1, Michael C Gottlieb, Samuel Knapp
1Department of Psychology, Campus Box 173, University of Colorado at Denver, P.O. Box 173364, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA. mitchell.handelsman@cudenver.edu
Abstract:
This article presents an approach to graduate (and professional) training that views becoming an ethical psychologist as an acculturation process. J.W. Berry's (1980, 2003) model of acculturation strategies is used as a framework for understanding ethical acculturation, a developmental process during which students can use several types of adaptation strategies. Students enter training with their own moral value traditions and concepts but are confronted with new ethical principles and rules, some of which may be inconsistent with their ethics of origin. The article explores several applications of the framework to ethics courses, practicum supervision, and other areas of training.
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