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Article

Ethical Principles for Work in Organizations

Pages 60-65
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article contrasts the history and rigorous requirements of traditional ethical standards governing therapist-client and teacher-student relationships with the more ambiguous and diverse standards necessary for work in training and organizational settings. Thirty-one ethical principles are proposed. The reader is invited to discover and confirm his or her personal code of ethics for organizational and training work.

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Val Garfield

Val Garfield, a California Licensed Marriage, Family, and Child Counselor, is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (Clinical). She also has four years of doctoral level education in human behavior in organizations. From 1975 to 1993 she worked full-time in Europe leading TA training and supervision programs as well as programs utilizing other applied social psychology theories and methodologies. She has sponsored, trained, and supervised people in BOC/COC clinical and organizational contracts and trained and supervised trainers and consultants who use TA in organizational settings. Val has worked extensively in organizational settings in leadership, team building, and organizational development programs, mainly in Scandinavian countries. She has written on TA and other clinical and organizational topics for professional journals, institutional publications, and magazines in England, Norway, and Finland. She designs training programs in TA and other modalities for independent consultants, training/consulting organizations, in-company training departments, and government agencies. Currently she works about one-quarter time in Scandinavia and Japan and has reestablished a private therapy practice in Corte Madera, California.