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psiholog v dilemi: etične vsebine in etična zavest v praksi

psychology. Dealing with ethical dilemmas is part of everyday
life in correctional institutions, and successful solutions require
professionally trained and personally mature personnel who
must be carefully selected and trained for this type of work and
who should also be appropriately appreciated by the political
and professional public. Raising ethical dilemmas is particularly
important in prison work because the enforcement of criminal
sanctions by law interferes with certain human rights, risking
excessive control and restriction. The article also addresses the
ethical burden of psychologists in prisons.
Keywords: serving a prison sentence, right to freedom,
resocialization, personality disorders, mental disorders, suicide
prevention, the dual role of the psychologist, supervision

Ethical Content in the Work of a Forensic Expert
in the Field of Family Matters
Abstract
The judicial expertise of the psychological profession in Slovenia
has been experiencing a crisis in recent years, which resonates
within public and professional circles. There was a great shortage
of court experts, and at the same time there was a loud criticism
of the quality of expert work, which was joined by controversies
about which psychologists are even competent to perform
expert work. In this sensitive atmosphere, at the initiative of
the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Slovenia, a new field
of expertise called Family Psychology was established in 2017,
which offers a comprehensive model of expert work with an
emphasis on psychological research and assessment of parental
fitness and family relationships. Previously, only experts in the
field of clinical psychology performed work in family matters.
In the field of forensic expertise in family matters today, we are
faced with ethical problems in the work itself, on the one hand,
and ethical problems on a systemic level, on the other. The issue is
complex and requires a great deal of social responsibility, as it will
be necessary to attend to professional development and ethical
action at all levels. The paper primarily presents ethical violations
in the performance of expert work, which are more often detected
in the following areas: methodology of psychological assessment,

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