Counselors (N=72) rated four ethical conflict vignettes. Results revealed significant main effects for pressure and for legal guideline clarity for responses to conflict and significant interaction effects. Decision making was affected negatively by pressure, however, participants relied little on legal guidelines in making responses. (Author/BL)

Reviewing literature on ethical dilemmas facing family therapists reveals issues not included in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy's "Principles for Family Therapists" (1984). Family therapists (N=75) were asked what ethical dilemmas they faced and how helpful the ethical guidelines were. They reported encountering…

The author discusses the changes in society that are making ethical questions increasingly difficult to answer. He states that those who teach about values for daily living must find some way to teach ethics for modern times. (CH)

Discussed are the value cycles which English teachers have experienced since the break up of American cultural cohesion at the beginning of this century. Included are value centered, method centered/value free education, values clarification, moral development, and the current movement of moral objectivism. (Author/MT)

Comments briefly on the importance of recognizing values in the administrative process, makes some observations about increasing value conflicts in society, and presents an approach to leadership and decision making which takes into account value systems. Builds on Chester Barnard's definition that leadership involves technological attainments and…

Family physicians are trained to work with families in the provision of primary medical care, and many provide family counseling. These physicians face many of the same ethical conflicts with which family therapists are confronted. The primary physician-patient relationship modifies these conflicts and creates new and vexing problems. (Author)

Sponsors of social welfare agencies in the United States have historically justified their work on three general grounds: religious, constitutional, and legal. A historical survey of these doctrines and their relationships suggest that social workers should emphasize the first two rather than the third. (Author)

Cultural analysts have indicated that American culture is going through a significant transition in values. The views of three of these analysts are reviewed and implications are drawn for counselors. (Author)

Criticizes the "great tradition" article (EA 519 521, this issue), asserting that traditional methods of moral instruction failed because they indoctrinated conduct and did not teach individuals moral understanding. Suggests that indoctrination is incompatible with education. (MD)

Critiques the terminological, historical, prescriptive, and descriptive difficulties in the "great tradition" article (EA 519 521, this issue). It is important that schools teach the application of critical thinking to moral problems. (MD)

The meaning and understanding of conscience in political thought are examined. The problem of distinguishing apparent and real conscience and private and public judgment is illustrated by contrasting the acts of conscience of Socrates and Thomas More with the rejection of private judgment against the state in Hobbes and Locke. (RM)

Provides a critical evaluation of Clive Beck's Reflective Approach to values education, analyzing its ethical assumptions and questioning its philosophical justifiability. Feels that Beck muddles the distinction between moral and nonmoral values and that the Reflective Approach is relativistic and inadequate to deal with interpersonal conflict.…

Outlines and gives school district experience with three approaches to moral education--fundamental, developmental, and values clarification. (IRT)

Outlines New York's approach to values education. (IRT)

The aim of this paper is to present the didactic possibilities of phenomenology as moral philosophy. It deals with the possible application of phenomenology into education, with the way it makes the concept of reflection change, and how in its very essence, this encourages a moral relationship with the world, thus being fairly suitable for the…