Legal Ethics And Ethical Considerations

their clients (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 2015). The therapist must “provide professional assistance to people without descrimation on the basis of race, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, religion, or relationship status” (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 2015). Therapist must also keep confidentiality with assessing their clients. For example: the therapist cannot tell other family members what findings that the counselor found while counseling any other clients.

Shadow charts were developed to gather data and information for additional departments and medical personnel that need access to part of a patient’s file or records. The original records should always remain in the patient’s primary chart allow copies may be available to ancillary departments that may need access to the information. The same level of confidentiality and security applies to the shadow charts. They must be in a secure location with access by authorized personnel only. Additional information that should be included in shadow charts is a formal recording process to document those who access the information. Furthermore, a consistent system of upgrading the

The two major ethical considerations that are important to address are 9.02 - Use of Assessments and 9.06 - Interpreting Assessment Results. 9.02 - Use of Assessments is particularly important because the psychologist must consider the individual’s language preference and competence. As was noted in the initial case description, Brandon’s parents are both Polish immigrants, and Brandon spoke Polish in home until he attended junior kindergarten. Although he may not have an accent, his language preference should be noted as English may not be the language he is more comfortable using. 9.06 - Interpreting Assessment Results should also be considered. Brandon’s test-taking abilities should be highlighted, as he is suspicious and ambivalent towards the psychological testing. These feelings may negatively affect his test scores, as he may try to either hide how he truly feels, or lie to make himself seem better or worse. It should also be noted that there could be other client characteristics that affect his scores as well, particularly cultural factors.

Marriage and family therapists believe that the family patterns may affect an individual’s psychological and physical well being and therefore need to be part of therapy. During a therapy session even if only one person is being interviewed, the therapists focuses on a set of relationships that the person is embedded in. The entire family is involved in solving clients problems regardless of whether the issue in individual or family.

I appreciated reading the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists Code of Ethics article. This article increased my knowledge on the responsibilities a marriage and family therapist has to their patients, profession, the legal system, colleagues and themselves. I was intrigued to read that the practice of marriage and family therapy is considered an art and science and not only a “helping” profession (CAMFT (2011) Code of Ethics).

Hank is shown to believe that at points it concerning him whether to do the right thing/wrong thing, responsibility of his actions towards the start of finding the money. At certain times he can be self-centred, superior and inferiority

A marriage and family therapist may work in collaboration with other health care professionals, be involved in research, or use the family perspective to analyze public policies.

therapy aims to improve family relations, and the family is encouraged to become a type of

Ethics and therapy are closely intertwined. It is important that healthcare professionals dealing in therapy adhere to strict professional standards and values that help define expectations and also prevent harm to those who seek therapy. Although the application of such values can sometimes be somewhat complicated when such therapists are dealing with individual clients, the complexity is even more heightened in the context of having multiple family members under therapy. Advancing conversations regarding values and marriage and family therapy is important to enable professionals grapple with the complexities of the topic as well as support their clients better.

The AAMFT Code of Ethic is a written foundational ethical principles for professional prescribing mandatory direction for obligatory or prohibited action (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, 2012). The ethical code is designed to protect the professional, it is not enough for a therapist to know and follow the AAMFT Code of Ethics by itself. Because, there are other common threads that surround and overlaps the AAMFT Code of Ethics, which are developing the competences in legal laws from both state and federal level and regulations that apply to the practice of marriage and family therapy (Gehart, 2014). When it comes to laws versus AAMFT Code of Ethics, the law will always take presidents and trump everything else even the AAMFT code of ethics (Gehart, 2014). This is one of the many reasons why it is not enough for therapist to know and follow the AAMFT Code of Ethics by itself.

Within healthcare, practitioners often have to make difficult decisions regarding the care of their patients. This could be to do with giving or withdrawing treatment, or as simple as sharing risk information (Glover, 1997). Ultimately, the practitioner must be able to rationalise any decision they have made (Morrison, 2009). With this in mind, the following assignment will draw upon an ethical dilemma and explore how theoretical perspectives can be utilised within the decision making process. Therefore it will also be pertinent to draw upon the law, and how this influences actions within health care. To facilitate this discussion, I will identify a scenario from practice that

Build a mirror CRM production system over the next two weeks so that a rebuilding of the main CRM system could occur to plug security holes and assure that another DoS attack would not be successful.

One of the focal points in the argument for and against hydrofracking is the ethical concerns of the process. These ethical concerns can be broken down into a collection of other topics.

There will be many scenarios that can challenge a counselor. However, when there are specific cases that involve harm to the clients’ person or another a counselor must follow the processes outlined in the bylaws of the American School Counselor Association. These outlined processes serve two important purposes, the purpose of protecting the client and the purpose of protecting the counselor. This paper will answer questions in response to the scenario of Angela.

As a marriage/family therapist who I view as a client has a significant impact on the therapeutic process (Goldenberg & Goldenberg, 2013). In the group, I expressed that my utmost concern with family therapy is determining who the client is. The group shared this concern as well, but others expressed that this only becomes a concern to them depending on various reasons, which reasons include, but are not limited to, the therapeutic approach use, presenting issues, and who initiated the counselling. I do not necessarily share this perspective. In my opinion, being a marriage/family therapist implies that I am counselling a family unit using the family systems perspectives and techniques in dealing with the presenting issues. The reason for my answer is based on the discussion regarding the ethical obligations and confidentiality consideration in being a marriage/family therapist. However, my group had a different take on this question and to my response. I am