Greetings from the IPA Ethics Committee! You may know that the American Psychological Association has an Ethics Office, but do you know what the Ethics Office does? In case you don’t, the APA Ethics Office: 

• Promotes ethics throughout the field of psychology
• Supports the APA Ethics Committee in adjudicating ethics cases
• Offers educational programming
• Provides ethics consultations
• Serves as a resource to members and the Association in addressing new ethical dilemmas as psychology grows and evolves as a discipline

APA members benefit from these services though many resources and web links are available to non-members, too. Here’s what you can find on the Ethics Office’s webpage (Ethics Office):

• Links to versions of the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct
• Instructions on how to seek consultation on the APA Ethics Code (available only to APA members including associates, graduate student members, and affiliates, and to the public)
• Instructions on how to submit queries about ethical dilemmas (members only)
• Asked and Answered column – providing guidance on common ethical questions (e.g., “What’s my duty to report suspected abuse of children or vulnerable adults?”)
• Ethics FAQs on topics that may impact psychologists such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the overturning of Roe v Wade 
• Links to Ethics Rounds Monitor columns (e.g., “A terminally ill patient’s last request,” “Termination and abandonment: A key ethical distinction,” and “Disability as an ethical issue”)
• Recommendations on ethics books for psychologists
• Information about APA Ethics awards (e.g., the Graduate Student Ethics Writing Competition)
• Ethics continuing education courses

As always, your own Iowa Psychological Association Ethics Committee accepts member requests for consultation regarding ethical dilemmas (Committees – Iowa Psychological Association) and encourages you to consider becoming a member of the Ethics Committee!