Ethical Issues in Mentoring Relationships

Decades of research indicates that mentorships lead to significant positive career and personal outcomes for mentees. But mentoring relationships are also interpersonally complex, fluid, ever evolving and sometimes dysfunctional. This workshop addresses some of the most salient and consistent ethical challenges and tensions for mentors in any organization or context. Mentoring relationships are framed as fiduciary relationships in which mentors own a fundamental obligation to avoid harm to the mentee and to promote the mentee’s best interests whenever possible. Utilizing a mentoring code of ethics and ethics vignettes, this workshop emphasizes the values, attitudes and behaviors of ethically conscientious mentors.

This product is not included in the APA Unlimited CE program.

• Describe at least five of the principles bearing on ethical mentorship.