LibGuides: MFT-5102 v4: Legal, Ethical, and Professional Development in Marriage and Family Therapy: Week 1 Resources

Week 1 Resources

AAMFT Code of Ethics
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. (2015, January). AAMFT Code of Ethics.
The AAMFT Code of Ethics is your written guideline to the ethical standards and practices within the field of Marriage and Family Therapy.
Castle Branch
Castle Branch. (n.d.). Home page.
You will go to this website to request your background check. Please note the additional instructions in the assignment description.
Culturally Relevant Ethical Decision-Making in Counseling
Houser, R., Wilczenski, Felicia L., & Ham MaryAnna. (2006). Culturally relevant ethical decision-making in counseling. Sage.
Read Chapter 2: Virtue Ethics and Counselor Decision-Making.

Ethical, Legal and Professional Issues in the Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy

Wilcoxon, A. S., Remley, T. P., & Gladding, S. T. (2021) Ethical, legal and professional issues in the practice of marriage and family therapy. Pearson.

Read Chapter 1: Values as Context for Therapy (pp. 1-21) and

Chapter 2: Professional Acculturation and the Ecology of Therapy (pp. 23-33).

Access your Redshelf book in the Getting Started module of the course or click on Bookshelf in the top navigation bar of the course.

Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions

Corey, G., Corey, M. S., & Corey, C. (2019). Issues and ethics in the helping professions. Cengage Learning.

Read (pages 73-80) “The Ethics of Imposing your Values on Clients.”

Complete the self-inventory on page 24 at the beginning of this course, and then complete the same self-inventory at the end of the course (you will see this in Week 10).

Access your Redshelf book in the Getting Started module of the course or click on Bookshelf in the top navigation bar of the course.

Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy: Guidelines for Equitable Theory and Practice
McDowell, T., Knudson-Martin, C., Bermudez, M. (2018). Socioculturally attuned family therapy: Guidelines for equitable theory and practice. Routledge.
Read Chapter 1, Why Sociocultural Attunement and Equity Matter, and Chapter 2, Guiding Principles for Socioculturally Attuned Family Therapy.

Optional Resources

Re-Visioning Family Therapy, Third Edition: Addressing Diversity in Clinical Practice
McGoldrick, M., Hardy, Kenneth V. (2019). Re-visioning family therapy, Third edition: Addressing diversity in clinical practice. The Guilford Press.
Read Chapter 1, The Power of Naming.

User's Guide To The 2015 AAMFT Code Of Ethics

American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. User's guide to the 2015 AAMFT code of ethics. American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.