The intent of this handbook is to be the much-needed comprehensive source of information on psychological ethics from an international perspective, with material related to recent, current, and future international developments and issues related to psychological ethics.  These developments and issues have yet to be discussed in significant depth in the professional literature, although the have been presented to a small degree in the form of conference symposia and scattered journal articles.  The chapters of the handbook are organized into six major sections, plus an appendix.  The first section will provide an introduction to international psychological ethics, covering such areas as the history of ethics codes, the various types of ethics codes, ethical discourses, competent ethical practice, ethical decision-making, and responses to ethical infractions.  The second section will address current international developments and issues in psychological ethical, including the process of ethics code development, the globalization of ethics codes and the quest for universal standards, conflicts between different ethics codes and their resolution, ethics and cross-cultural research and practice (including indigenous interventions and work with immigrants and refugees), the ethics of online research and practice, test development and protections, the role of ethics in interrogation, and ethics issues in professional training.  Section three will present chapters on the relationship of psychological ethics to other disciplines, such as business and industry, law, and medicine.  Section four will feature chapters from each of the five inhabited continents, outlining major convergent and divergent developments that have occurred, as well as future directions within these geographic areas.  The fifth section represents an emerging area within psychological ethics, that being the impact of macro-level economic, political, and social systems on ethics codes development and the professional practice of psychology.  The final section of the handbook will offer a chapter that synthesizes the proceeding sections and offers directions for future work on ethics as situated international.  An appendix will be included with useful annotated resources, such as books and book chapters, journal articles, websites, national and international ethics organizations, etc.