Reimagining the application of sustainability to the hospitality industry through a virtue ethics framework

Little discussion has appeared in the literature regarding the ethical and value considerations when clinicians select a psychotherapy modality (e.g., CBT, psychoanalytic therapy, family systems, etc.) and format (group, individual, couple, family, systems) to offer to clients before formal treatment negotiations begin. This chapter offers a virtue-ethics framework to consider these ethics and values issues in psychotherapy modality/format selection, and embeds this virtue-ethics framework in a series of seven clinical factors to consider when doing modality/format deliberations. Karl Jaspers’s principles of clinical interpretation (hermeneutics) provide an illustrative framework for the thinking process in making modality/format decisions. The interactions between the seven factors to consider in modality/format deliberations and the eight relevant clinician virtues provide for numerous, but brief, clinical examples of how the factors, the virtues, and clinical hermeneutics combine to provide for conscientious psychotherapy modality/format deliberations.

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Towards an Ọmọlúàbí code of research ethics: Applying a situated, participant-centred virtue ethics framework to fieldwork with disadvantaged populations in diverse cultural settings

Research Ethics ◽

10.1177/17470161211010863 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 174701612110108

Author(s):

Bukola Oyinloye

Keyword(s):

Research Ethics ◽

Virtue Ethics ◽

Ethical Framework ◽

Conceptual Approach ◽

Moral Virtues ◽

Ethics Framework ◽

Disadvantaged Populations ◽

Intellectual Traditions ◽

Tangible Benefit ◽

Ways Of Being

This paper presents a participant-centred virtue ethics approach, the Ọmọlúàbí moral-ethical framework, which moves beyond researcher-centred reflexivity to incorporate participants’ moral virtues within a broader research ethics framework. It demonstrates a methodical application of the framework during research with rural Yorùbá communities in Northcentral Nigeria through the principles of continuity; adherence to local and national processes; adaptation to local ways of being and doing; and provision of tangible benefit. After proposing a conceptual approach for participant-centred ethics, the paper explores the tensions and complexities that may occur when attempting to reconcile diverse ethical traditions and provides practical suggestions for researchers who wish to conduct moral and ethical fieldwork in similar contexts. Ultimately, the paper argues for an integration of participants’ values and virtues within research ethics in order to affirm diverse ethical and intellectual traditions.

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Virtue Ethics and the Multicultural Clinic

The Oxford Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198817338.013.78 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Jennifer Radden ◽

Jerry Kroll

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

East African ◽

Psychotherapeutic Treatment ◽

Case Examples ◽

Ethics Framework ◽

Immigrant Populations ◽

Case Vignettes ◽

Definition Of ◽

African Patients

This chapter expands on recent research applying a character-focused, virtue ethics framework to psychotherapeutic practice by introducing some distinctive demands made on the character of those who undertake psychotherapy with immigrant populations. These demands are illustrated using case examples taken from the clinic of one of the authors (JK), where Southeast Asian and East African patients are seen in an inner-city clinic in Minneapolis. The authors first discuss the definition of “psychotherapy” before moving on to introduce five brief case vignettes. The authors then examine virtue ethics, and the role of virtues in psychiatric practice. They use the case studies to illustrate when and how character virtues, both those that are familiar and some that are not, play a part in effective psychotherapeutic treatment in this setting, and explore the virtues likely to avert or diminish the effects of practitioner burnout that is a particular hazard of working in these settings.

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An Implementable Conversation Between Foucault and Chinese Virtue Ethics in the Context of Youth Social Work

The British Journal of Social Work ◽

10.1093/bjsw/bcab034 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Longtao He ◽

Kate van Heugten

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Virtue Ethics ◽

Case Studies ◽

Cultural Difference ◽

The Self ◽

Chinese Youth ◽

Ethics Framework ◽

Ethical Frameworks ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

Reflective Approach

Abstract Recently, virtue ethics has been increasingly considered as one of the most appropriate alternative ethical frameworks for youth social work internationally and in China. Extant literature has the tendency to emphasise cultural difference and neglect the universality of (virtue) ethics; instead, this article aims to inspire a balanced theoretical conversation on similarities between western (Foucauldian) and Chinese virtue ethics (mainly classical Confucianism and Daoism) supported by examples from case studies. Three areas are addressed: (i) similarities in the interior (personal) dimension and the exterior (relational) dimension of the self; (ii) the situational and universal features of virtue ethics, and the need for a reflective approach to balance both; and (iii) ethical cultivation of the reflective approach. These key themes add to a body of knowledge for the development of a virtue ethics framework for Chinese youth social work.

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Author Court D. Lewis Meets Critics on Repentance and the Right to Forgiveness

Acorn ◽

10.5840/acorn201919111 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 19-41

Author(s):

Court D. Lewis ◽

Gregory L. Bock ◽

David Boersema ◽

Jennifer Kling ◽

Keyword(s):

Virtue Ethics ◽

Ethics Of Care ◽

Ethics Framework ◽

Moral Agents ◽

Moral Relationship ◽

The Right

Court D. Lewis, author of Repentance and the Right to Forgiveness, presents a rights-based theory of ethics grounded in eirenéism, a needs-based theory of rights (inspired by Nicholas Wolterstorff) that seeks peaceful flourishing for all moral agents. This approach creates a moral relationship between victims and wrongdoers such that wrongdoers owe victims compensatory obligations. However, one further result is that wrongdoers may be owed forgiveness by victims. This leads to the “repugnant implication” that victims may be wrongdoers who do not forgive. Author Lewis addresses the “repugnant implication” by showing that victims are obligated to work toward forgiveness, if not forgiveness itself. Critic Gregory L. Bock argues that victims are not the only ones who can forgive, that the personal dimensions of forgiveness are overlooked, and that the force of the “repugnancy implication” may be questioned. Instead of rights-based eirenéism, Bock supports a virtue ethics framework. Instead of rights-based eirenéism, Bock encourages virtue ethics. Critic David Boersema raises questions about the binding nature of relationships, the dependency of flourishing upon forgiveness, and the nature of needs or rights. Boersema also questions the wisdom of a rights-based approach to forgiveness. Critic Jennifer Kling asks whether a rights-based approach is necessary to ground obligations to meet the needs of others: why not an ethics of care? If a rights-based approach is taken, perhaps a wrongdoer is obligated to not make forgiveness a life good. By disengaging this obligation, we avoid constraining a victim’s work toward forgiveness, especially when the wrongdoing is oppressive. Author Lewis responds to these objections.

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Integrating Virtue Ethics into Responsible-Conduct-of-Research Programs: Challenges and Opportunities

10.1093/oso/9780190081713.003.0013 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 225-244

Author(s):

Jiin-Yu Chen

Keyword(s):

Research Ethics ◽

Virtue Ethics ◽

Ethical Issues ◽

Responsible Conduct Of Research ◽

Federal Regulations ◽

Education Programs ◽

Ethics Framework ◽

Responsible Conduct ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Conducting Research

In response to federal regulations, institutions created a multitude of responsible-conduct-of-research (RCR) education programs to teach novice researchers about ethical issues that may arise in the course of their research and how to avoid or address them. Many RCR education programs strive to help familiarize trainees with some of the areas in which issues in research ethics and integrity develop and help shape trainees into researchers who conduct their work with integrity. However, the compliance aspect of RCR education programs presents fundamental challenges to the programs’ aspirational goals. Adopting a virtue ethics framework can contribute to RCR education programs’ pursuit of those goals by drawing attention to the ways in which researchers’ characters contribute to conducting research with integrity. Further, virtue ethics can contribute to the development of a virtuous researcher through incorporation into both the formal RCR curriculum and through more informal means, such as mentoring.

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Review of "Rhetoric technology and the virtues by Jared S. Colton and Steve Holmes," Colton, J. S., & Holmes, S. (2018). Rhetoric, technology, and the virtues. Utah State University Press

Communication Design Quarterly ◽

10.1145/3431932.3431935 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 29-30

Author(s):

Bremen Vance ◽

Lauren Malone

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Virtue Ethics ◽

Good Reason ◽

Real Life ◽

Well Being ◽

Human Flourishing ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Ethics Framework ◽

Ethical Implications ◽

Ethical Frameworks

Discussions about communication and education have become focused on social justice in recent years, and with good reason. Social justice is at the forefront of many aspects of our daily lives in news, education, and even entertainment. As digital rhetoricians and educators, we have found ourselves looking for ways to work at the intersections of our field and social justice to improve both learning experiences and networked communication in non-academic contexts. This work is both timely and needed, as the hierarchies and inequities experienced in "real life" often translate to, and are amplified by, networked and digital forms of engagement. Fortunately, Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues offers an insightful and practical discussion about ethical frameworks that contribute to our understanding of digital social justice. Colton and Holmes persuasively argue for the value of Aristotle's virtue ethics, especially the idea of hexis , as a model for empowering students, educators, and others to enact digital social justice. As they explain, Aristotle identified virtues "such as patience, courage, temperance, and liberality" that contribute to ethical behavior and "are developed not solely through reason or by learning rules but through practice of the emotional and social skills that enable us within a community to work toward...human flourishing and general well-being" (p. 32). An essential part of Aristotle's framework is hexis , a person's disposition that has been crafted through habit and repeated practice (p. 11). Colton and Holmes effectively demonstrate how a virtue ethics framework can empower individuals to take ownership of the ethical implications of digital practices. Throughout the book, Colton and Holmes address familiar topics in digital rhetoric ranging from captioning (pp. 3--5, 49--73), remixing (pp. 74--94), and issues inherent in online activism (pp. 95--126).

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