These codes are intended to provide guidance to both the practitioners and the public as to what is considered acceptable professional practice. Go to several of the above sites and spend some time surfing it to familiarize yourself with what it has to offer. Several of the sites have search engines that can be helpful when you want to look for information on a certain topic. The Centre for Applied Ethics lists links to the code of ethics of many professional organizations. The CSEP at the Illinois Institute of Technology was established in 1976 for the purpose of promoting education and scholarship relating to the professions.
Work is in progress.
Codes of ethics used to be created by a few influential members in the proverbial smoky room. For example, the current code of ethics of The American Psychological Association took six years to complete. The following sites will provide you with a sense of how codes are implemented and how the process of revising a code is conducted . For example, see Rules and Procedures Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association as Published in the American Psychologist, May 1996, pp.