ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF A PSYCHOLOGIST AND PSYCHOTHERAPIST

Currently, all social strata of Ukrainian society experience psychological discomfort to varying degrees. This discomfort is mainly aggravated and spreads to ever larger public masses due to the existing harsh realities of the present time, namely such important factors as military actions carried out on the territory of Ukraine and the accompanying worries of Ukrainians for their own lives and health. As well as the life and health of their relatives and friends, and at the same time the future of their homeland in the global political and geographical sense. The lack of social, economic, political stability, and certainty for the present and near future. At the same time, the level of psychological culture of Ukrainians has increased significantly over the past 10 years.Thus, the professional demand for highly qualified psychologists and psychotherapists is now great and relevant as never before.At the same time, the requirements for the level of specialists who take on the responsibility of being healers of souls have also increased significantly.At the First Constituent Congress of the Society of Psychologists of Ukraine on December 20, 1990 in Kyiv, the Code of Ethics of a Psychologist was adopted. This regulatory act is a guarantor of highly professional, humane, and highly moral activities of psychologists of Ukraine, carried out depending on their specialization and sphere of interests. This Code is a set of ethical norms and rules of conduct that have formed in the psychological community and regulate its life activities. The object of psychologists' research and influence is the inner world of the individual, so their contacts with other people should be warm, friendly, and healing. The Code of Ethics contributes to the more successful implementation of their professional activities by psychologists. In particular, it helps school and university psychologists in increasing the effectiveness of teaching and educating students; psychologists in the field of health care - in performing functions related to the prevention of diseases, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients; psychologists in the field of public administration psychological support of general and sectoral management.The Ethics Commission established by the Society of Psychologists of Ukraine shall carry out work aimed at the correct interpretation of the Code of Ethics by psychologists, shall monitor its compliance, and shall ensure that psychologists form a perception of this Code as an obligation to the public, as one of the important acts of current legislation