Training psychotherapists: Practices regarding ethics, personal growth, and locus of responsibility.

Ethics in the Teaching of Mental Health Professionals

“…Jorgensen & Weigil (1973) Found that there were ethics courses in 14% of the programs, although 80% had some exposure. Tymchek et al (1979) Found that 55% of clinical psychology programs required an ethics course, and 96% gave some attention to ethics instruction (although only 67% of them employed a formal structure for doing so).…”

Ethics education in professional psychology: A survey of American Psychological Association accredited programs.

“…Ethics courses were offered in 64% of psychology programs by 1993 (Wilson & Ranft, 1993). Forty years after the first study (Jorgensen & Weigel, 1973), and 20 years after the second (Wilson & Ranft, 1993), 95.6% of respondents in the current study indicated that their ethics courses were a required component of the doctoral curriculum, reflecting increasing recognition of the integral importance of ethics education.…”

“…Before the initiation of this requirement, only 14% of doctoral programs in counseling and clinical psychology offered a separate ethics course (Jorgensen & Weigel, 1973). Ethics courses were offered in 64% of psychology programs by 1993 (Wilson & Ranft, 1993).…”

Psychologist as ethics educator: Successes, failures, and unanswered questions.

“…By the time the next survey of ethics education was published in 1973, modifications in curricula and faculty attitudes were apparent. Jorgensen and Weigel (1973) reported required ethics courses in 14% of the clinical programs and exposure to professional ethics, either informally or through structured units in other courses, in some other part of the curriculum in 80% of the sample. While Jorgensen and Weigel did not inquire directly about the beliefs of faculty about ethics education, their findings implied a growing acceptance of the position that professional ethical behavior requires more than good moral character.…”