Two recent judicial and governmental developments appear to tip the scales in favor of the confidentiality of intelligence sources and methods at the expense of any "right of access" to government information. The implementation of the Reagan Administration's Executive Order governing the classification of national security information…

This paper examines how the U.S. Privacy Protection Commission functioned. Examined are its basic authority, procedures and policies, operational plan, distinctive features, staffing, and results of recommendations. Created by an act of Congress in 1974, the Commission was authorized to examine all actual and potential invasions of privacy in the…

The author of this paper contends that, since the inception of the Family Privacy Act of 1974, basic educational research has become stifled by the law, and by the policies and procedures enforced by public schools. He defines basic research as that which attempts to discover the underlying principles governing fact or truth in learning or human…

Two experimental conditions were compared: groups with higher teacher self-disclosure and groups with low teacher self-disclosure. These groups were compared across five different categories of self-disclosure: attitudes and opinions, tastes and interests, work and studies, personality, and emotions. Results were significant in four cases. (Author)

Assessed conditions under which clinicians might consider breaking patient-therapist confidentiality, using vignettes of clinical situations. Social workers were more likely than their counterparts in psychiatry and psychology to report that they would breach confidences when confronting specified clinical situations, with older social workers…

Discusses secrecy and disclosure as rhetorical forms, especially as expressed in the archetypal role of translator and in commonplaces. (JK)

In rural and urban samples of marital couples, a significant interaction effect between quantity of self-disclosure and quality of self-disclosure was found. Especially for wives, combinations of low quantity and low quality were found to be extremely detrimental for marital satisfaction. (Author/BL)

Client self-disclosure is conceptualized as an interpersonal risk. Risk factors and a model designed to help counselors understand clients who are reluctant to self-disclosure are described. (Author)

Determined whether spouses in nondistressed marriages show greater equity and reciprocity of exchange and a greater degree of congruence than spouses experiencing marital distress by examining interactive patterns of self-disclosing behavior using the Self-Disclosure Coding System. Within-couple reciprocity patterns revealed highly similar…

Reviewed are attempts to keep secret the identity of crime labs research showed to be performing poorly. The questions probed are "when do private citizens have a right to enter into contracts for confidentiality and when does the state have the right to attempt to force citizens to break them?" (RM)

Because young people are coming out of the closet at a younger age, parents often deal with a gay or lesbian child in their home. Parents need the support and intervention of therapists in order to guide their children through this often difficult and confusing time and to face their own issues. Parents wrestle with many concerns such as social…

The career development of gay men and lesbian women is complicated by both internal and external factors. Internally, they are at different stages of integrating and appreciating their gay and lesbian identities, and they will consequently make different decisions regarding their career choice and their level of outness in the work environment.…

Surveyed the effect of familial interpersonal communication on women's feelings of parental and marital role satisfaction. Found that the women in this sample-- primarily college-educated--were more satisfied when they perceived that their ability to be effective in carrying out family role responsibilities exceeded the role expectation…

Subjects (N=82) were given either veridical or false feedback concerning their level of intimacy one week after a short structured interaction with another. Results indicated that feedback had a greater effect on the reported degree of liking for the other and the disclosure level. (Author/RC)

Discusses events that led to the passage of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) of 1966. Problems and abuses associated with the law are described with excerpts of the law regarding required disclosures, disclosure under FOIA, fees, and subjects not available under FOIA. Seventeen references are listed. (CHC)