What Ethical Guidelines Is/are Violated in the Following Study? a Child

question 1

Multiple Choice

What ethical guidelines is/are violated in the following study? A child therapist thinks the new, untested psychotherapy she recently developed is more effective than physician-prescribed medications for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. To research the effectiveness of her therapy, she tells parents that the therapy replaces the need for the medications and then provides the therapy to half of her clients, without telling parents about the study or which treatment group their child is in.​

• A) ​voluntary participation and informed consent.
• B) ​no harm to the participant.
• C) ​deceiving subjects.
• D) ​all of the above.
• E) ​none of the above.

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Definitions:

Disjunction

A logical operation that results in true if at least one of the operands is true.

Conditional

A statement or proposition that asserts that one thing is true if another thing is true, typically formulated as "If P, then Q."

Negation

The contradiction or denial of something, or the opposite of a given statement or proposition.

Conjunction

In grammar, it refers to a part of speech that connects words, sentences, phrases, or clauses. In logic, it's a compound statement that is true if both of its component statements are true.