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    finds themselves in a moral or ethical situation then the ethical guidelines can be very helpful in providing counsel. The purpose of this paper is to study the ethical consequences and show other ways to comply with accurate ethical values. Informed consents, protecting participants from harm and abiding by ethical guidelines helps research studies to be more accurate and precise. I have had the opportunity to read a variety of articles about ethical guidelines for research studies and I found The

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    two radically opposite views regarding this issue can be posited. The first one, which is rather “conservative” could, in principle, argue that because of pervasive cognitive impairments AD patients are vulnerable and not capable of giving informed consent with a similar degree of responsibility as that of healthy individuals. When a surrogate’s decision is required for participation in research, this decision can never be equivalent with the actual patient’s decision, since no one can know exactly

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    Bioethics

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    The case of Dr. Lowell and Mrs. Jackson revolves around a conflict between the doctor, who advocates the implementation of a particular treatment and the patient who disagrees with the doctor and wishes to do things her own way. The doctor feels that the suggested course of action is disastrous and threatens to have the patient declared mentally incompetent. The question now is whether or not the doctor is morally justified in taking action against the patient in order to implement the course of

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    medication and treatment, to the least restrictive environment possible, to privacy and confidentiality, to have and give informed consent. b) patient autonomy- patients held on a voluntary or involuntary basis (Eren, 2014; Townsend, 2015). Children present with unique needs because they cannot consent for themselves, are developmentally immature, need care, advocacy, and protection. Consent to Treat a Minor A little girl was brought in to our psych ED by the police, her mother accompanied her. The context

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    Informed Consent Form Alcohol, Drugs and Sex: Understanding their Intersectionality among Men who have Sex with Men What is a research study? A research study is when scientists try to answer a question about something that we don’t know enough about. Participating may not help you or others. People volunteer to be in a research study. The decision about whether or not to take part is totally up to you. This consent form gives you information about the study. It tells you about the purposes

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    This report This report is an academic critique of a Quantitative research article written by Mark Anthony Peters and Leadelle Phelps (2001) entitled: ‘Body Image dissatisfaction and distortion, steroid use, and sex differences in college age bodybuilders.’ Under the section ‘Steroid use’ it is made fairly clear towards the end of the paragraph that the main aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of gender and steroid use on body image dissatisfaction and distortion among college age bodybuilders

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    Proposed Rule Making

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    elaborate debate over the scenario regarding research on patient’s leftover or non-identified tissue after clinical trials.1 For conducting a research on the blood, spit or for its further storage, the researcher has to acquire an IRB approval and Informed Consent from the participants. Today, if a researcher fails to determine the participant’s identity, then this leftover tissue can be used for study without the participant’s approval or knowledge.1 However, if Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)

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    three year-old known only as “Patient #69,” became so alarmingly sick, that her father begged the doctors to help her. She continued to be given Trovan, rather than the tried and tested cephalosporin. She died. Many consent forms were found to be falsified, and some families were not informed that they were taking part in a drug trial, a clear violation of the Nuremberg Code and The Declaration of Helsinki. Alarmingly, when the American drug company Pfizer was bought before a New York judge to answer

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    Application of ACA Code of Ethics to Practice The American Counseling Association (ACA), has standard laid down for all its members to follow. It is a guiding document but very important and helps to determine the quality of service that professional counselors provide to clients. In response to this application I am going to write on section B: confidentiality and privacy. To provide excellent help to client, I must build a relationship with that person. For this therapeutic relationship to be

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    The Stroop Effect

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    Abstract The aim of this experiment was to test cognitive interference. The Stroop Effect is the finding that naming words is easier than stating the color of the word. The Stroop Effect was first conducted in 1935 by John Ridley Stroop which was published in the “Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions”. This experiment was replicated by asking 40 participants to complete two different tasks. Task one involved reading words printed in different colors. The second task was to read the

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