Socially sensitive research was one of the factors that led to homosexuality being removed from the DSM
Ethical issues, and how to deal with them, are important topic for all psychology students — not least because ethics is part of the research methods content and at least 25% of your exam questions are drawn from research methods content.
Ethical issues are also part of ‘Issues and debates’ topics, and include socially sensitive research in many specifications — AQA includes it as an issue/debate, Edexcel includes it as part of the ‘use of psychological knowledge within society’, OCR includes it as a debate and WJEC/Eduqas mentions ethical issues that arise when working with vulnerable groups and animals.
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