Using case law to teach professional ethics

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 281-284

  Knapp, Samuel ^a,c   VandeCreek, Leon ^b  

^a Pennsylvania Psychological Association   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

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