Ethical Decision‐Making Models: A Review of the Literature

Abstract

A comprehensive review of the literature on ethical decision-making models in counseling is presented, beginning in the fall of 1984 through the summer of 1998. (Materials "in press" were considered.) A general overview of the literature is provided. Theoretically or philosophically based, practice-based, and specialty-relevant approaches are surveyed. The literature is rich with publications describing decision-making models, although few models have been assessed empirically, and few models seem well grounded philosophically or theoretically.

Metodologije Za Etičko Odlučivanje U Socijalnom Radu

“…This, it should be made clear, is just one of the ways that ethical decision-making methodologies can be classified (García et al, 2003;Cottone and Claus, 2000;Minor and Petocz, 2003).…”

“…Ethical decision making has been subject to review and discussion in many other disciplines: business (Robertson and Crittenden, 2003;Craft, 2013), medicine (Bernard Lo, 2013; Ruiz-Cano et al, 2015) and psychology (Cottone and Claus, 2000), among others. In the case of social work, it is an issue that is gaining in importance, as given the aforementioned peculiarities of the profession, having models and methods to help with ethical decision making has become a pressing need that professionals are increasingly calling for (Úriz, 2004;Buck, Fletcher and Bradley, 2015).…”

Is moral intensity applicable to natural environment issues?

“…Many scholars (Cottone and Claus, 2000;Gadenne, Kennedy, and McKeiver, 2009) thought that in general the ethical decision process is influenced by two kinds of factors. The first kind of factor is the principle factor, which means the moral principles of a decision maker.…”

Professional ethical beliefs and behaviors of clinical psychologists in Serbia

“…Osamdesetih i devedesetih godina prošlog veka klinički psiholozi su osmišljavali teorijske modele, vezane za donošenje moralnih odluka u praksi (Cottone & Claus, 2000).…”

“…Model Karen Kičener (Kitchener, 1984), kasnije model Kičenerovih (K. Kitchener & R. Kitchener, 2009), koji se u poređenju sa drugim modelima najčešće citira u stručnoj literaturi (Cottone & Claus, 2000), vezan je za oblast psihološkog savetovanja, ali se lako može primeniti i na druge oblasti kliničke psihologije. Za ovaj model je empirijski utvrđeno da je veoma koristan za praktičare (Dinger, 1997).…”