Moving beyond statutory ethical codes: Practitioner ethics as a contextual, character-based enterprise

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 107-120

  Burke, Alban ^a   Harper, Marcel ^a   Rudnick, Hilton ^b   Kruger, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b Omnicor   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Ethical decision making; Ethics; Practitioner ethics; Professional codes of conduct

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347324931     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/008124630703700108     Document Type: Article

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