Question

What factors may cause a psychologist to act unethically?

Answer 1

A sense of invincibility, sense of righteousness, sense of a gain in some psychological necessity and lack of sense about what other people think or feel are the factors that may cause anyone not just the physiologists to act unethically.

 

Answer 2

What factors may cause a psychologist to act unethically?

Answer 3

Answer:

In my opinion a psichologist may act unethically because he or she is a human being and susceptible to be biased. A psichologist can dislike a client, feeling unable to acknowledge this dislike in supervision, and it leaking over when in contact with this client, this would be unethical because the client would be the one who would suffer.  

Attraction to a client, attraction is a normal process in life, but if a psychologist sensed an attraction between themselves and the client and chose to act upon this , well extremely unethical in my books, as in most cases what the client is feeling is transference anyway.  

The upbringing/ home life of the psychologist could have an impact on whether they behave unethical or not, they may not have grown up in a home were clear boundaries existed.