Ethical Regulation of Diagnostic Practice
Practical psychodiagnostics is a complex and responsible area of professional activity for psychologists. It impacts people’s fates: medical or forensic psychological diagnoses are made on its basis, and competitive selection or hiring is carried out. The diagnostic psychologist bears full responsibility for potential moral and indirect material harm, including harm to somatic and neuropsychiatric health, which may be caused to the subject through improper administration of the examination. In this regard, psychodiagnostics often faces ethical issues. In all countries where psychodiagnostic practice is widely and intensively developed, it is regulated by both a general professional code of ethics and specially developed professional and ethical standards.