Coaching ethics: Making ethical decisions: Experts and novices

This short article reviews the principles which underpin professional ethics. It considers the parallel domains of sports and counselling psychology and explores the ethical issues which face coaching psychologists. It moves on to consider ethical decision-making frameworks and how coaches may use such frameworks to make more informed ethical decisions in their coaching practice. It suggests that while codes of practice are useful for experienced coaches, novice coaches need to develop a heuristic to help them resolve ethical dilemmas which can occur in their practice.

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