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You must the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2017) to review the case  study

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You must the APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2017) to review the case 
study. In addition to the APA Principles of Psychologists, you may also use the code of ethics for 
psychologists within your country or state. Using the Ethical Principles of Psychologists and 
Code of Conduct (American Psychological Association, 2017), identify three General  Principles and four Ethical Standards specific to the Case of Dr. John. Please note that to get a full credit you must answer all the questions thoroughly otherwise no credit will be given for an outline and short answer.  

                                                                  Case of Dr. John 
Dr. John is a psychologist and is conducting an intake session with a 23-year-old female client, 
Darling, who presents with symptoms of major depression and anxiety. After the intake, Dr. John 
informs the client of the therapy process and provides Darling with the office crisis line phone 
number. The client attends sessions weekly for four months and begins to feel better as 
evidenced by comments the client made to Dr. John. Dr. John agrees and has also noticed 
improvement in the client and decides to ask Darling out on a date to "celebrate your health." 
Darling accepts. After several dates following her therapy sessions, Darling and Dr. John begin a 
sexual relationship. Darling wants to get serious with Dr. John and asks Dr. John if he would like 
to meet her parents. Dr. John declines the offer but informs Darling she can continue her therapy 
sessions on a biweekly basis. Darling agrees and continues therapy. 
 

Darling and Dr. John continue to date several times a month or have sex in Dr. John's office, 
either before or after her therapy sessions. For one of her therapy sessions, Darling asks her aunt 
to drop her off and pick her up from Dr. John's office, due to her (Darling) car being in the shop 
for repair. The aunt visits the office early (to pick up Darling) and waits in the lobby for Darling 
to end her session with Dr. John. After Darling and Dr. John leave Dr. John's office, the aunt 
greets Darling and introduces herself to Dr. John. Dr. John finds the aunt quite attractive and 
slyly gives the aunt his business card with his personal cell phone number on the back of the 
card. Several weeks later, the aunt visits Dr. Johns office. Dr. John is excited to see the aunt and 
begins to give the aunt a grand tour of his office, including the file room. Within the file room, 
Dr. John opens one of the file cabinets, showing the aunt his "success" by opening several client 
files. He shows the aunt his billing rate per hour and the charges to the clients account and other 
personal information on the clients, including their (client's) picture. 
 

The aunt seemed impressed and began to ask questions, leading to Dr. John's continued 
bragging. Dr. John talked about the services he provided to "those mute kids" and his inability to 
comprehend what they were saying, joking how "I made a killing on that billing!" Dr. John 
admitted to conducting his "personal" research on children at the school for the deaf without 
parental consent, stating "I was not qualified to do the research formally because I was not 
trained in that area...but it's all the same...who's gonna ask if I was trained in that area 
anyway...who cares if the parents didn't know...who's gonna tell?" Dr. John further stated "...and then I used some assessment tools that I had no clue about...I billed it anyway and got 
paid a ton of money baby!" 
 

After a tour of other rooms within the office, Dr. John makes a pass at the aunt and kisses her on 
the hand, leading to the aunt and Dr. John sneaking into one of the offices to have sex. After the 
interlude, Dr. John and the aunt leave the room and notice a client sitting in the lobby waiting to 
see Dr. John. The client, Mr. Smith, indicated this is his first appointment and that he is a veteran 
who sometimes get dates incorrect due to a previous war injury but, Mr. Smith is adamant his 
first appointment is today. With the aunt still present, Dr. John confirms he was expecting him, 
but stated he was not aware that Mr. Smith was a veteran. Dr. John's brother was a veteran who 
suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and died from HIV/AIDS while being homeless. As a 
result, Dr. John finds himself uncomfortable with Mr. Smith and does not want to see Mr. Smith 
in his office. Instead, Dr. John recommends to Mr. Smith they conduct their sessions at the 
nearby grocery store or another public setting instead of Dr. John's office. Mr. Smith does not 
like the idea and asked several concerning questions however, Mr. Smith stated, "I don't wanna 
walk away from help...I know I need it" and then he (Mr. Smith) agreed to meet in the grocery 
store for his session with Dr. John to discuss his mental health challenges due to his history of 
trauma. The aunt thought the recommendation was quite funny and begins to laugh as she walks 
out of the office door.