Children, Politics, and Morality: The Ethics of Child Advocacy
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology
- Vol. 16 (4) , 357-367
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15374424jccp1604_10
Abstract
The question of whether child psychologists should assume the role of advocate is an easy one, whether determined by utilitarian concerns or the principles of beneficence and respect for persons. The difficult dilemmas arise when there are potential or real conflicts of interest between advocate and child. Although these dilemmas are not totally resolvable, they are most tractable when the child is directly involved in decision making.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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