Timbuktu Code Of Ethics

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Advances in technological methods of communication have created controversy in the field of online counseling and the territorial limits that any one psychologist must adhere to. There is one worldwide web, but many different countries, provinces, states and continents in our world. The Internet might make a talented psychologist in Canberra available to a struggling patient in Timbuktu, but is this an ethical, or even legal partnership? Australia’s Psychological Society has written its Ethical Guidelines for Providing Psychological Services and Products Using the Internet and Telecommunications Technologies to supplement its Code of Ethics so that Australian Psychologists may better manage the challenges of online patient interaction. Particularly