Milestone 3 PSY 545.docx PSY 545 Milestone 3: The Role of Ethics with Eggshell Plainti

Milestone 3 PSY 545.docx    PSY 545  Milestone 3: The Role of Ethics with Eggshell Plaintiff  PSY 545: Forensic Assessment  The importance of maintaining professionalism in for any forensic psychologist is a code of ethics and principals they maintain in their career. APA Ethical Principles for Psychologist Code of conduct states that if a psychologist œethical responsibilities conflict with law, regulations, or other governing legal authority, it is up to the psychologists to make known their œcommitment to this Ethics Code and take steps to resolve the conflict in a responsible manner, (APA 2018). Maintaining professionalism/objectivity is significant in Kathy Hall case, since it is dealing with trauma/mental health. Under 3.04 Avoiding harm, the psychologist must take œreasonable steps to avoid harming their clients/patients, students, supervisees, research participants, organizational clients, and others with whom they work, and to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable, with Kathy case, the forensic psychologist assessment must be done delicate and should not cause any more harm that Kathy has suffer (APA, 2018). Confidentiality is very important in the case too. The lawyers, judge, and court should be the  only ones receiving Kathy assessment the forensic psychologist reports back and keep any results quiet. In other assessments, the information shared is only kept between the forensic psychologist and the client.  Personal biases that can impact forensic psychologist can be the l