Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789033909 ISBN 13: 9780789033901

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

While on some issues couple and family therapists have an exquisitely clear direction from professional codes of ethics, others fall under gray areas that instead rely on therapists making reasoned ethical decisions. Therapists need to develop ethical sensitivity to potential ethical issues in order to decrease their risk in practice, and increase their maneuverability in the therapy room. In Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy, Lorna Hecker and her contributing authors address various clinical scenarios that demonstrate the complex ethical situations couple and family therapists face every day. Some points discussed in this holistic book include boundary, power, and privilege issues, along with unique ethical issues in practicing therapy with children. Risk issues when working with potential danger, suicide, and partner violence are also explored. Each chapter sensitizes readers to potential ethical issues and provides a model for ethical decision making that best promotes good on behalf of clients. Couple and family therapists will find this text an invaluable and inexhaustible resource.

About this title

About the Author:

Lorna L. Hecker, PhD, LMFT, is a Professor of Psychology and faculty member of the Marriage and Family Therapy program, in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana. She is also the Director of Purdue's Couple and Family Therapy Center.

Review:

"Provides welcome discussion and guidance. This would be an excellent book for an introductory MFT law and ethics class, or for a clinician seeking to stay up to date on ethical issues. The breadth of topics covered would likely ensure that most readers would walk away with new information to consider. I anticipate that the book will be used widely, and rightfully so." - Sean Davis, Ph.D, Alliant International University, in Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0789033909
• ISBN 13: 9780789033901
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Hecker Lorna