Human rights and the ethics of clinical psychology

Kemp, R. (2023). Human rights and the ethics of clinical psychology. Clinical Psychology Forum, 1(368), 68-69. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpscpf.2023.1.368.68

Abstract

Human rights are key landmarks in the development of the law and protect citizens from the abuse of power. They also empower freedoms and can become a form of cognitive lens through which we act in the world. Clinical psychologists should consider carefully where freedoms are curtailed, especially in spaces of detention. How might we envisage a world where all living beings and things have rights?