Abstract:
The objective of this article was to bring further reflections to the matter of ethics in psychological assessment. The work was arranged in three main discussions. The first one deals with how regulatory documents, in the Brazilian context, reaffirm the dynamic, transformative, cultural and beneficial feature of psychology and psychological assessment based on ethics. In the second part, by having analyzed national and international articles, two main issues emerged. Firstly, the changes in ethics in psychological assessment caused by social demands and secondly, that many more changes are still needed due to neglected issues, which need a greater attention by psychological assessment. In the third part, training in psychological assessment was discussed taking account of ethical lawsuits judged by CRP-SP between 2014 and 2018 (first quarter). Finally, the need for a permanent ethical training extending beyond the strictly professional dimension and to take place in the most varied groups of society was under consideration, throughout a human development that stimulates a social consciousness based on theory and practice (praxis).
Keywords:
Psychology; Training; Code of Ethics