Foundation of Ethics-Based Practices

Chapter 1. Overview of the volume.- Chapter 2. Towards an ethics-based logic of science in Psychology.- Chapter 3. Clinical Practice: Ethics Before Evidence!.- Chapter 4. Inherent risks of the construction of high-risk individuals in diabetes treatment and prevention: An ethical challenge.- Chapter 5. The Relationship Between Ethics and Ontology in Researching Suicide.- Chapter 6. Evidence versus ethics: what comes first in psychological practice?.- Chapter 7. Meaning-oriented counselling and psychotherapy as an ethics-based care practice: Logotherapy and Existential Analysis with cancer patients.- Chapter 8. On the care of children entrusted in our hands:Reflections on the position of knowledge in ethics-based practices .- Chapter 9. The construction of the Sense of Grip on chronic disease. Clinical and ethical implications from health psychology perspectives .- Chapter 10. A patchwork of good intentions: A critical look at different perspectives regarding ethics-based mental health care in under-resourced settings.- Chapter 11. Communal Moral Basis for Understanding Personhood, Health, and Suicide .- Chapter 12. Perspectives on meaning-making among disenfranchised minorities as illustrated by a group of gender and sexual diverse individuals in Uganda.- Chapter 13. From Local Evidence to Global Science and onward to Local Practice in a post-pandemic world: The Journey of Family Intervention Programs in India.- Chapter 14. Afterword.

Birthe Loa Knizek was raised bilingual in the Danish minority in Germany, where she developed a life-long interest in and awareness of cultural and linguistic differences and what they mean to people. She was awarded the titles mag.art. psych. and PhD from the Psychology Department, Center for Qualitative Methods, Aarhus University, Denmark. Her background includes assoc.prof., CEKVINA (Center for  Womens' Studies in Aarhus), Aarhus University, Denmark; assoc.prof., leader of the long distance education in psychology, Ålborg Universitetscenter, Denmark; assoc. prof. in Theory of Science Problems in Psychology and Qualitative Methods, Dept. of psychology, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim; full professor in Community Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; full professor in Mental Health, Sør-Trøndelag University College, Norway; full professor, Mental Health, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU. Her research ranges from German psychosomatics, which emphasized the influence of personal experiences for the formation and health of the body, based on Uexküll's theories,  over suicidal behaviour and suicide prevention in Norway, Ghana and Uganda focusing on cultural complexity and the decisive importance of individuals' context, to  mental health among children and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Alongside she has an interest in morality and ethics guiding (global) mental health efforts. From 2016 to 2020 she was leading the multinational researcher network "Health in Context" with the focus on meaning-making and health.  In addition, she is a specialist in Clinical Psychology (Children and Adolescents) with numerous years of clinical practice. For more information on publications: https://innsida.ntnu.no/my-profile

 Sven Hroar Klempe (born 1955, Mag.art., Dr.art.) is full Professor in Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of