Comprehensive Systems Approach Research Articles

Ethics and enterprise

This paper summarizes three major approaches to the problem of business ethics. Comparisons and contrasts are drawn between the moralistic approach of Berhman, the social contract theory of Nash, and a comprehensive systems approach as articulated by Elbing. In the final section, some attempt is made to indicate how these models may be implemented into managerial policy decision making process by the use of group work and ascending communication. Some consideration of using organizational structure to implement ethical concerns is indicated.

The Emergence of a Comprehensive Systems Approach

Journal of Family TherapyVolume 5, Issue 2 p. 165-177 Free Access The Emergence of a Comprehensive Systems Approach Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Mara Selvini Palazzoli Nuovo Centro per lo Studio della Famiglia, Viale V. Veneto, 12, 20124 Milano, Italy.Search for more papers by this author Mara Selvini Palazzoli, Mara Selvini Palazzoli Nuovo Centro per lo Studio della Famiglia, Viale V. Veneto, 12, 20124 Milano, Italy.Search for more papers by this author First published: 1983 https://doi.org/10.1046/j..1983.00613.xCitations: 12AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume5, Issue21983Pages 165-177 RelatedInformation

A survey of intrafamilial sexual abuse treatment centers: Implications for intervention

This study was devised to determine the attitudes of treatment professionals regarding desirable therapeutic approaches for intervening in incestuous family systems. A survey of treatment centers currently providing services for the treatment of intrafamilial sexual abuse in the United States was undertaken. A questionnaire was developed to ascertain preferred methods and modalities of treatment of family sexual abuse. Current methods of treatment were identified and inquiries were made regarding what programs presently offer in terms of treatment. An inventory of 30 questions was mailed to 58 treatment professionals and/or treatment programs included in the study. A response rate of 62% was achieved. Treatment centers primarily offered treatment for family sexual abuse on an outpatient basis and staff composition was interdisciplinary in nature (psychology, nursing, marriage and family therapy, social work and psychiatry). An average of 137 cases of family sexual abuse were treated annually per treatment program, with the daughter or the stepdaughter being the family member most often sexually abused. Further findings were the following: (1) treatment programs stressed group treatment for offenders as the most effective therapeutic intervention, yet group treatment of offenders was not offered by treatment programs as frequently as other types of treatment; (2) an interdisciplinary team approach to treatment of incest cases was preferred, suggesting the need for more than one therapist working with each family sexual abuse case: (3) court intervention was seen as necessary to facilitating the treatment process by 79% of the 36 questionnaires returned; (4) family therapy was expressed as a preferred and essential component to the treatment process with incest cases—yet actual implementation of family therapy treatment was clearly not uniform across treatment programs; (5) the most critical finding of this survey is that there was a consensus among clinicians that there is no one sequence of treatment, and that it varies according to the specifics of each family. Regardless of theoretical orientation, the majority of respondents believe that a comprehensive family systems approach is advantageous to the goal of determining whether the family can and wants to rehabilitate itself.

New Career Development Strategies: Methods and Resources

A comprehensive view of career development dictates a review, an evaluation, and an expansion of strategies used in career guidance programs. Several forces underlie this need: (a) the expanded age range of the population served, which now stretches from preschool to postretirement; (b) the unique needs of special populations; (c) the radical change in life styles and goals in today’s culture; (d) the ever-increasing numbers of individuals making major occupational changes, even at midlife; (e) the dramatic change in learning settings as career development concepts are becoming infused into all areas of the curriculum; and ( f ) the trend toward accountability for whatever methods are chosen to achieve educational goals. The selection of methods and resources for a career guidance program must be preceded by a number of program planning steps. Several recent writers (Cook 1972; Jones et al. 1972; O’Hare & Lasser 1971) have suggested the advantages of using a comprehensive systems approach for developing career guidance programs. This approach involves a number of steps, which ultimately result in career guidance pro-

The Siberian Countryside: Present and Future

In July 1973 the Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Siberian Department of the Soviet Sociological Association, together with the Institute of Economics of Agriculture of the Siberian Branch of the V. I. Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, held in Novosibirsk a scientific-practical conference on Problems and Prospects in the Social and Economic Development of the Siberian Countryside. On the basis of a comprehensive systems approach, participants in the conference examined phenomena and processes occurring in the countryside in their unity and interdependence, and also from the standpoint of overcoming substantial differences between town and country. Side by side with economists, philosophers, and sociologists there was also participation in the discussion of problems by physicians, teachers, architects, and practical workers.