Standard on Public Statement and Record-Keeping

Standard on Public Statement and Record-Keeping

Record keeping gives guidelines to psychologists in making decisions; therefore, they aspire to be honest in their services to promote public statements. The federal and state laws, American Psychology Association (APA) and ethics code (APA. 2010b) require maintenance and psychological services as they prohibit false public statement on how people work in a place. Appropriate records can also protect the psychologist and the client in legal or ethical proceedings.

The process of record-keeping involves considering ethical standards, legal requirements and other professional demands. Public statements refer to statements made in public and not in private and personal conversation. Reports can be made in a society where, after some time, the psychologists discovered that the statements made in public were false, therefore modify what was recommended earlier.

There are various types of public statements; First, gossip is not allowed, in that articles should deal with facts, secondly, opinions of other experts at trial matters ((see APA 2013e; Otto, DeMier, & Boccaccini, 2014).

According to public statement and record-keeping, I would apply ethical codes in my daily life to gain trust in different services and to uphold my integrity in my working place more so in organizations and also other public domain.

What is unclear to me is when the opinions of other experts do not matter in legal proceedings, when the decisions are hard to be made by the psychologists and may take a more extended period where a false statement persists, other articles do not contain facts. Therefore ethical standards may not be considered. I want to learn how to keep records in my workplace to promote ethical standards and integrity and to be able to make decisions.

References

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Kasim, R. S. R. (2011). Strategic Information Resources and Quality of Record keeping Systems. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 1(2), 171.