Deontología profesional en psicología forensedenuncias recibidas en el COP-Murcia

Abstract

Through the last years it has been increased the number of complaints reported to the Ethics Committees, with a significant rise of complaints against psychologists who make psychological reports in the forensic psychology area. It is important to know the behaviors related with a professional praxis that ignore deontological exigencies required to elaborate such reports properly. In the period from 2005 to 2012, the COP of Murcia (Murcia Psuchological Association] Ethic Committee was revised 55 complaints. For the 47.3% was opened the disciplinary proceeding, and the rest were archived. In those that was opened the disciplinary proceeding, a 93.1% corresponded to the elaboration of psychological reports about the determination of adjudication of children custody or visits and communications post divorce. The ethic articles of the code more commonly violated are numbers 6, 12, 15, 25 and 48. These articles are refered to psychological reports reflecting not corroborated information from only one person, conclusions about one parent who has not been evaluated, partiality, lack of basis and strength in conclusions, evaluations of children without informing to both parents, lack of preciseness and lack of honesty. These results are similar to other studies, and demonstrate the need of specialized formation in the elaboration of psychological reports in order to respect ethical normative.