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Nineteen contributed chapters illustrate those applied activities in which developmental psychologists are currently engaged and identify and provide guidelines for the ethical problems encountered in such activities. The authors draw from their own experience to identify issues that emerge as devel

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Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Preface, Irving E. Sigel Emerging Ethical Issues in an Emerging Field, Celia B. Fisher and Warren W. Tyron PART I: ETHICS AND APPLIED DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH Doing Good Well, Diana Baumrind. Ethical Dilemmas in Recent Research: A Personal Saga, Sandra Scarr Psychological Risks and Remedies of Research Participation, Celia B. Fisher and Susan A. Rosendahl How to be Ethical in Applied Developmental Psychology: Examples from Research on Adolescent Drinking Behavior PART II: ETHICS AND DEVELOPMENTAL INTERVENTION Assessing Social Intervention: Scientific and Social Implications, Michael Lewis Ethical Considerations in the Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Developmental Interventions, Steven J. Danish Plasticity in Development: Ethical Implications for Developmental Interventions, Richard M. Lerner and Jonathan G. Tubman Ethical Concerns for the Use of Research Findings in Applied Settings, Irving Sigel PART III: ETHICS AND KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION Ethical Dilemmas in Playing by the Rules: Applied Developmental Research and the Law, Gary B. Melton Ethical Considerations of Psychologists Working in the Media, Robert B. McCall Ethical Issues in Parent Education, David Elkind PART IV. ETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Predictive Parallels Between Clinical and Applied Developmental Psychology, Warren W. Tyron Practicing Applied Developmental Psychology: Playing the Game You Can't Win, Gerald P. Koocher PART V: ETHICS, CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL BIAS Population Generalizability, Cultural Sensitivity, and Ethical Dilemmas, Luis M. Laosa Bias and Social Responsibility in the Study of Maternal Employment, Lois Wladis Hoffman The Ethics of Research and Intervention with Ethnic Minority Parents and their Children, Harriette Pipes McAdoo Cultural Forces Leading to Scientific Developmental Psychology, James Youniss PART VI: COMMENTARY Developmental Psychology in the Real World: A Perspective on Its Ethical Issues, M. Brewster Smith Author Index Subject Index

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