Is it posible to define the “welfare” of the psychologist’s client? Cover Image

Czy można zdefiniować „dobro” klienta psychologa?
Is it posible to define the “welfare” of the psychologist’s client?

Author(s): Małgorzata Toeplitz-Winiewska
Subject(s): Psychology
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: client; autonomy; subjectivity; respect for dignity; confidentiality

Summary/Abstract: In this polemic response to Katarzyna Sikora, attention is drawn to the need to refine the term denoting the person or people that the psychologist works with, for it is inaccurate and misleading to subsume them all under the concept of “recipients.” In the section on “client welfare,” the view is presented that the proper subject of debate among psychologists should be those values involved in their profession that really make it possible to achieve “client welfare.” The impossibility of defining this concept as well as its evaluative character may imply the necessity to abandon using it in psychologists’ ethics codes.

  • Issue Year: 16/2013
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 681-684
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Polish
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