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My home is now Chiswick, London.įiona: A little about yourself (i.e., your education, family life, etc.). I’ve lived in many different countries, including Australia and France. My parents were from Hertfordshire in the UK. Let’s get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your name. Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. ![]() ![]() ![]() Social constructionism in ethical decision making is well suited to the ethical ambiguities and conflicts of multicultural and international practice because it places considerable weight on universal values, collaborative interaction, contextual factors, and language. Next, I summarize the prevailing models of ethical decision making and describe an alternative approach built upon the tenets of social constructionism. I also report progress on the Universal Declaration of Ethical Principles for Psychologists (Gauthier, 2005), a draft document that presents a common framework to guide scientific and applied work worldwide. I highlight how the wording of ethics codes either facilitates or impedes effective multicultural and international practice. ![]() I review the guidance that each code offers to practitioners who work with culturally diverse persons and/or in international settings. ![]() I then evaluate components of the most recent versions of ethics codes of the APA, American Counseling Association, and National Association of Social Workers that bear on multicultural and international practice. ![]() I begin this chapter by examining the relationship between values and professional ethics as well as the ethical values of master therapists. ![]() ![]() Some days, I stand before our bookcases in the living room and think how it feels a lot like standing at the ocean, each book we've read together a seashell, a sand dollar, a starfish, a treasure from our history. Our togetherness is changing still she and I have only to wade through our collection of shared books to revisit the yesterdays of her childhood. We're always close, always connected, but the emotional and financial tethers of dependency loosen more each day. ![]() She's growing up, more adult than child, and the tidal patterns of our relationship seem to fluctuate between two states: shallow and surge. She's working, attending classes full-time, and living at home. MY 18-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER started college this fall. ![]() ![]() But here I am getting ahead of myself a bit.ĪLICE ( Amazon) is the first in the Chronicles of Alice series and a great place to get to know the author’s works. There’s enough of both the familiar and the new that they end up being really great reads. One of the great things about storytelling though is that even if the ideas and plots are pillars of stability in our minds, a new tale can still be just as invigorating and fun to read as if everything were brand new. ![]() There have been enough versions of both these tales told that it might seem as if we really don’t need another. ![]() That first one was a brilliant take on the simple tale of Red Riding Hood, and I was hoping to find more of the same in this one, which is obviously pointed at the classic tale Alice in Wonderland. After reading Christina Henry’s THE GIRL IN RED ( EBR Review), I couldn’t wait to find out what other tales she’d been telling that I didn’t yet know about. ![]() |