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7 Crim. Just. & Behavior 3 (1980)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv7 and id is 1 raw text is: GUEST EDITORIAL ETHICAL PROBLEMS IN PRISON PSYCHOLOGY FLORENCE W. KASLOW Hahnemann Medical College, American Board of Forensic Psychology, Inc. T he therapist functioning within or as a consultant to a prison often seems to be hovering on the tip of a sharp, high preci- pice and pulled in many directions, by seemingly oppositional forces. The perch seems tenuous, undergrounded-the sense of precariousness heightened by one's ambiguity about being in this position. Let us use Lewin's concept of a life-space diagram (1935) to understand the key elements in the environment of the psy- chologist functioning within the correctional system. Placing the therapist in the center of his workaday world (see Figure 1) and moving outward, he is to some extent beholden to the prison by which he is employed and by which his salary is paid. He or she may have to wrestle daily with: (1) Can one ethi- cally be part of a system that perpetuates terribly substandard living conditions? (2) Are one's efforts to improve the physical and emotional climate within the prison sufficient to justify being there? (3) Can a person actually engage in treatment in prison, with a captive population, many of whom deny guilt and do not consider themselves mentally ill? (Kaslow, 1979); (4) Should one Author's Note: This article was originally written for presentation at the American Psychiatric Association annual conference, May 15, 1979, in Chicago, Illinois. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR. Vol. 7 No. I. March 1980 3-9 © 1980 American Association of Correctional Psychologists

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