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How to Ethically Kill Two Birds with One Stone
Celia B. Fisher
A graduate student collecting data for her doctoral dissertation at the site where she has completed her clinical internship takes appropriate precautions to minimize potential conflicts of interest with former patients. Fisher presents this as an example of best practice.

Studying Vulnerable Individuals
James M. DuBois and Angela Dunn
Mark would like to conduct research for his dissertation at a group home for developmentally disabled persons where he has worked as a social worker for several years.

Seifromax
James M. DuBois
A clinician-researcher who is participating in a multi-site study of an anti-depressant for adolescents refuses to prescribe the drug off-label to patients whose parents do not consent to enroll them in the clinical trial. One parent complains to the IRB.

Research or Services?
Gerald P. Koocher and Patricia C. Keith-Spiegel
Parents are told that if they enroll their babies in a research project, the babies will receive an EEG to look for signs of brain damage. Babies not enrolled will not receive this diagnostic test.

Students as Research Subjects
William Timberlake
A researcher recruits students to participate in study to test an experimental treatment for depression. Several students who are randomly assigned to the control group voice complaints about their lack of treatment.

To Control or Not to Control
Brian Schrag
For her M.S. research thesis in counseling, Sherry would like to develop and test an educational intervention for students having academic difficulty at the technical college where she is an academic counselor. While Sherry feels having a control group would deny at-risk students the opportunity for improvement, her committee argues that a control group is needed in order to strengthen her research design.