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  • 4 - Ethical and Professional Issues in Assessment

  • from Part I - General Issues in Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
  • Edited by Martin Sellbom, University of Otago, New Zealand, Julie A. Suhr, Ohio University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Clinical Assessment and Diagnosis
    Published online:
    06 December 2019
    Print publication:
    19 December 2019, pp 38-48

  • Summary

    This chapter addresses the essential ethical and professional considerations when conducting psychological assessments. Testing impacts the life of examinees in a variety of ways from licensing examinations and screening for certain professions to custody evaluations and competency to be executed. Ethical practice in the area of assessment reflects good clinical practice. Topics include informed consent, confidentiality, the involvement of third parties in assessment, external consequences, test construction, test revisions, obsolete tests and outdated test results, cultural competence, test data and test security, assessment in the digital age, as well as the less frequently addressed topic of report writing and providing assessment feedback. A good ethical decision-making framework as well as the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (APA 2017a) and the Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (AERA et. al. 2014) provide guidance on preventing ethical issues from becoming ethical challenges both currently and as new ethical issues in assessment continue to emerge.