Do the Right Thing

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Readers learn a step-by-step method for creating a personal ethical foundation based on integrity, competence, personal responsibility, respect, and awareness of others' welfare.

Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., ABPP, is professor of psychology and director of the Center for Professional Development at Santa Clara University. He is also adjunct clinical associate professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and consulting associate professor at the Stanford University School of Education. He is a licensed psychologist with a private practice in Menlo Park, CA. For more than a decade, he has taught classes in ethics at both Santa Clara and Stanford Universities and conducted workshops in ethics for mental-health care professionals as well as for the public. Plante is the author of Contemporary Clinical Psychology, Second Edition (2005, Wiley); editor of Bless Me Father For I have Sinned: Perspectives on Sexual Abused Committed by Roman Catholic Priests (1999, Greenwood) and Sins Against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church (2004, Greenwood); co-author of Getting Together, Staying Together: The Stanford University Course on Intimacy (Firstbooks, 2000); and coeditor of Faith and Health: Psychological Perspectives (2001, Guildford). He conducts research concerning religious faith and health outcomes, the psychological benefits of exercise, and psychological issues among Catholic clergy. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 100 professional journal articles. Plante has appeared and been featured on the BBC, CNN, PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer, National Public Radio, and local television new shows as well as in national magazines an newspapers including Time Magazine, US News and World Report, USA Today, Newsweek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the London Times, and the Washington Post.

"If we learn by doing, then this book will go a long way towards helping the reader "do the right thing," In Every case, Plante's lucid and succinct explanations of ethical approaches and principles are followed by an imaginative set of exercises that immediately test those approaches and apply those principles to real life situations. The book is not a formulaic set of answers, but an explanation and exploration of methods--their strengths and weaknesses - to help the reader live ethically." --Stepehn A. Privett, SJ, president, University of San Francisco "Life is about decisions; a good life is about ethical decisions. This book is how to achieve the good life." --Leon E. Panetta, former White House chief of staff, director of the US Office of Management and Budge, and US Representative; Institute for Public Policy "We simply cannot continue to ignore ethics on a grand scale in our modern society. Incorporating ethics into our everyday decision making is imperative I few are to achieve a higher level of justice and happiness." --A.C. "Mike Markkula, Jr., cofounder of Apple Computer Inc., president of the Santa Clara University Board of Trustees and founder of the Markkula Center for applied Ethics at Santa Clara University