Abstract

The helping professions consist of psychology, counselling, social work, nursing, mediation, and others. Most helping professions in Australia, including those that are voluntarily regulated, have their own ethical code or code of conduct. There are differences in detail and presentation for each of the ethical codes available to professionals in Australia. Ethical codes tend to be organised, or grouped, into common principles. Groupings, however, differ from ethical code to ethical code. Regardless of the grouping used, there tends to be five common principles across almost all ethical codes. The five common ethical principles are: autonomy; non-maleficence; beneficence; justice; and fidelity. These five common ethical principles guide professional work and as a result safeguard client wellbeing. These five ethical principles, along with the ethical code for psychologists in Australia published by the Australian Psychological Society, are used in the Elements book in the examination of psychological ethical dilemmas.

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