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Discussion 4_Learning and Cognition

Discussion 4_Learning and Cognition

Q vPlay the expert in the following scenario and apply ethical principles and professional standards of decision-making to your rationale and actions: • You are a counseling psychologist in a state prison. You have been counseling a new inmate, and he confided in you that one of the other inmates has indicated he is considering suicide. He does not divulge the name of the other inmate and refuses to talk any further about the issue. Consider the following steps in your decision-making process: o Define the problem. o Explore the alternatives. o Consider the consequences. o Identify ethical considerations. o Determine how you would reduce bias in your decision-making process. o Explain your decision.

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I am Dr. Elder and I am currently working at an inmate treatment program. I am mainly dealing with those inmates who have faced or here in the prison due to various cases of drugs or substance abuse. My job here is to provide them treatment and psychological counseling through verbal communication. This is a therapeutic approach to the inmates as in many cases inmates’ psychological state becomes misbalanced even after getting out from the prisons. It is important to take proper care of the mental health of the inmates as the main agenda of the prisons is to provide a better society and future to everyone and if the inmate are unable to get back in their own previous life then it will be no meaning of treating or counseling them.