Further Readings and Resources

Suggested Readings

Brabeck, M. M. (Ed.). (2000). Practicing feminist ethics in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Brabeck provides an interpretation of the American Psychological Association's ethics code from the perspective of feminist theory.

Fisher, C. B. (2003). Decoding the ethics code: A practical guide for psychologists. Thousand Oaks, CA: sage.

Fisher explains the American Psychological Association's code of ethics in terms of how psychologists can do ethically responsible research.

Liamputtong, P. (2007). Researching the vulnerable. London: Sage.

Liamputtong explains ethical dilemmas and potential solutions in the context of working with vulnerable groups, such as criminal offenders and drug addicts.

Trimble, J. E. (Ed.). (2006). The handbook of ethical research with ethnocultural populations and communities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

This edited volume examines a variety of ethical considerations for researchers who work in diverse ethnocultural communities.

Organizations and Web Sites

American Educational Research Association, Ethical Standards (www.aera.net/AboutAERA/Default.aspx?menu_id=90&id=222)

This professional association of researchers publishes ethical standards for researchers in education.

American Evaluation Association Guiding Principles for Evaluators (www.eval.org/Publications/GuidingPrinciples.asp)

This professional association publishes ethical guiding principles for people who conduct program evaluations in all fields.

American Psychological Association, Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (www.apa.org/ethics/code2002.html)

This professional association publishes ethical principles to guide psychologists in their research.

Certificates of Confidentiality, Certifications of Confidentiality (www.grants.nih.gov/grants/policy/coc)

These legal documents protect identifying information from subpoena for legal proceedings, and are available from the National Institutes of Health.