Ethical Guidelines for Positive Psychology Practice
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International Journal of Wellbeing
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Ethical perfection is, perhaps, a utopian ideal,since human beings, including positive psychology practitioners (PPPs), are fallible, vulnerable, and imperfect. The complexities of contemporary life, such as ever-expanding cyber-living, erratic climate change, refugee crises, evolving identities, and increasing economic polarisation, exacerbate human vulnerabilities. Psychological services, especially ones with an explicit aim of restoring or enhancing wellbeing, are not easily offered without competing priorities and ethical dilemmas. No single set of ethical guidelines, standards, or even statutes can fully encapsulate the range of human complexities. A set of broad-based values, personal strengths, and principles, nonetheless can guide us to more ethical decision making, especially when we use positive psychological interventions (PPIs), which generically aim to enhance wellbeing.
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5203 Clinical and Health Psychology, 5205 Social and Personality Psychology, 4206 Public Health, 42 Health Sciences, 52 Psychology, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1608 Sociology, 1701 Psychology, 4206 Public health, 5203 Clinical and health psychology, 5205 Social and personality psychology
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International Journal of Wellbeing, ISSN: 1179-8602 (Print); 1179-8602 (Online), International Journal of Wellbeing, 9(3), 1-36. doi: 10.5502/ijw.v9i3.921
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The International Journal of Wellbeing (IJW) is an open access, peer reviewed journal promoting interdisciplinary research on wellbeing.