Values and Ethics in Family Therapy

This article is an introduction to this special issue on values and ethical issues in family therapy. The author discusses the historical context for the rising interest in these issues in family therapy, describes the rationale for this special issue, and presents a framework for analyzing the core values of the prominent models of family therapy. The ethical debate over use of paradoxical techniques in family therapy is used as an illustration of a values clash between different models of family therapy.     

GENDER AND WORKPLACE JUSTICE: A FIELD ASSESSMENT

There is extensive and persuasive documentation that the gender of an individual may bias a wide variety of managerial decisions. Potential differences in workplace justice as a function of the "defendent's" gender, however, have received little attention in organizational studies, and remain untested outside laboratory protocol. This study of 361 workplace justice proceedings in a field setting strongly suggests that men and women receive substantially different outcomes. These results are invariant across differences in the severity and viability of the contested issues.