“…Psychologists in rural areas regularly confront special ethical challenges resulting from the sociocultural context in which they practice (Barbopoulos & Clark, 2003;Harowski, Turner, LeVine, Schank, & Leichter, 2006). Part of the difficulty for rural psychologists is that much of the ethics literature and even the American Psychological Association's (APA, 2002) ethics code appears to be urban-based, leading to unexamined assumptions about the distinction between appropriate and inappropriate behaviors (Helbok, 2003;Roberts, Battaglia, & Epstein, 1999).…”