Children's resistance to the temptation to steal in real and hypothetical situations: A comparison of two treatment programs

Haines, Allan; Jackson, Merrill; Davidson, John

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“…2 A search of the titles and abstracts of all of the articles that have appeared in the Australian Journal of Psychology and the Australian Psychologist from 1980 to June 2002 revealed only 14 articles that have mentioned religion, religiosity, or related variables. 3 One of these articles looked specifically at different aspects of religion (Grichting, 1987), one involved a discourse analysis of women's accounts of spirituality (Coombes & Morgan, 2001), two briefly mentioned religious groups or spiritual domains in discussions of euthanasia (Allen, 1998;Sanson et al, 1998), two used Catholic participants in their samples (Haines, Jackson, & Davidson, 1983;Moulds & McCabe, 1991), and seven included measures of religiosity or religious orientation (Craddock, 1991;Forgas & Jolliffe, 1994;Grichting, 1986;Griffiths, Dixon, Stanley, & Weiland, 2001;Larsen, 1981;Parnicky, Williams, & Silva, 1985;Woodward, Carless, & Findlay, 2001). No studies specifically focused on religious issues in counselling, though Larner (2001) mentioned spirituality as one of a number of contextual variables that therapists should consider.…”

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Religious issues in counselling: are Australian psychologists “dragging the chain”?

Passmore

2003

Australian Psychologist

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While American psychologists have been making significant contributions regarding the best ways to deal with religious issues in counselling, Australian psychologists have generally been less active in stimulating debate, conducting research, and making clinical applications in this area. In this paper, it is argued that consideration of religious issues is an important aspect of therapy. In framing this discussion, consideration is given to boundaries and the task and role of the therapist. Suggestions are given for understanding value conflicts, implementing religion‐accommodative techniques, networking with colleagues in the religious community, and training psychologists to sensitively deal with religious issues in therapy.

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Religious issues in counselling: are Australian psychologists “dragging the chain”?

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2003

Australian Psychologist

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“…In the event that this was successful, educational programs could be devised to help change children's thinking and responding to such dilemmas and hopefully in real life situations. This has already been done and an exploratory "educational" program was recently reported (Haines, 1982;Haines, Jackson, & Davidson, 1983).…”

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The measurement of simulated stealing behaviour and moral judgement — a technique

Jackson

1984

Australian Psychologist

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A technique is described which attempts to measure the responses of children ia hypothetical stealing dilemmas. A technique embodying two forms, a so-called "did do" version and a "should do" version, was constructed. The "did do" version was an attempt to represent the child in an "actual" though hypothetical stealing dleauna and throagb the use of the first person pronoun "I", contrast this with a situation in which the cbild could respond in terms of how he or she thought he or she should. A series of bigldy significant differences within the groups on the "did do" and "should do" versions was noted, together with significant differences between the "delinquent" and "normal" populations. It was argued that such differences indicated that the p r d u r e had good validity as well as acceptable reliability.There are three usual procedures employed in attempts to examine the nature of deviance: (i) the use of official statistics which for many offences are highly questionable and can be varied according to a range of political and social pressures; (ii) self report measures which depend heavily upon the honest answering of subjects and which do have a reasonable measure of concurrent validity although their reliability over long periods of time is sometimes low (Braithwaite, 1977); and (iii) to examine the behaviour of subjects from their own perception of events. This third procedure is based on the assumption that what the actor thinks is going on can be more important in shaping an outcome than what actually goes on. Thus it is what the actor thinks that will shape his or her responses to events and pressures.Each of these procedures has major methodological weaknesses and some are more appropriate than others for examining particular types of deviance.There is a need for a refined micro analysis of the mental operations and characteristics of persons in stealing dilemmas. This paper reports on a test procedure for looking at the "decision" responses of children in stealing dilemmas and examines the reliability and validity of such an approach.It was argued that since petty stealing from stores, supermarkets and departmental stores is a major crime facing our society and since millions of dollars are lost annually by such actions on the part of Requests for reprints should be sent to Merrill S. Jackson,

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Assessment and Treatment of Stealing

Barth

1987

Advances in Clinical Child Psychology

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Children's resistance to the temptation to steal in real and hypothetical situations: A comparison of two treatment programs

Cited by 7 publications

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Religious issues in counselling: are Australian psychologists “dragging the chain”?

Religious issues in counselling: are Australian psychologists “dragging the chain”?

The measurement of simulated stealing behaviour and moral judgement — a technique

Assessment and Treatment of Stealing

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