If I was asked to write a monthly column on mental health for a national newspaper, I would be sure to inform them that I am a clinical forensic psychologist, and unless I had enough years of experience in the field, I would most likely not take the offer. However, if I did decide to take the offer and the newspaper used my image as a mental health professional to discuss issues unrelated to forensic psychology, I would consider this unethical. In my opinion, the only way it would be ethical to write the monthly column is if I was writing about current studies in mental, for example. Additionally, I would only write about areas of mental that I feel totally competent in as psychology’s only provide services with populations and in areas within
