The more the distinction between professional and private life blurs, it becomes relevant whether employers may prescribe how employees should behave outside work. By analyzing different moral approaches found in literature, this article introduces develops Integrity Approach to answer question. Using approach, an ethical principle for prescribing outside-work behavior is proposed: work such a ...

BACKGROUND Dealing with errors in psychotherapy is challenging, both ethically and practically. There is almost no empirical research on this topic. We aimed (1) to explore psychotherapists' self-reported ways of dealing with an error made by themselves or by colleagues, and (2) to reconstruct their reasoning according to the two principle-based ethical approaches that are dominant in the ethic...

In this paper, the foundations of professional ethics in occupational health care is described and discussed. After an introduction reminding of the global developments of world economy, communications and trade and reference to cultural and social developments, reference is given the four basic ethical criteria of biomedical ethics of beneficence ("doing good"), non-malfeasance (avoidance of h...