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Bernard, T. (2025, March). Teletherapy ethics. AMA Journal of Ethics.
Teletherapy services increased in popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. This comic is based on interviews of 3 individuals who consider questions about patient-therapist interactions in individual and group therapy.

Fox, J., Pencakowski, D., Kim, E., Currier, J. M., Copello, E., Pargament, K. I., Pearce, M., Oxhandler, H. K., Polson, E. C., & Vieten, C. (2025). Spiritual and religious competencies in mental health professionals: A scoping review of training methods. Spirituality in Clinical Practice. https:// dx.doi.org/10.1037/scp0000402
This source provides an overview of one aspect of culturally competent practice, as it relates to spirituality and religiosity.

McDowell, M. J., Henin, A., & Kim, H.-H. (2025). Using a cognitive–behavioral family therapy model to join caregivers of transgender and gender expansive youth. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2025.08.012
This source provides an overview of how to use CBFT in an ethical manner with a specific population.

McDowell, T., Knudson-Martin, C., & Bermudez. J. M. (2023). Socioculturally attuned family therapy: Guidelines for equitable theory and practice (2nd ed.). Routledge.
Read the “Practice Guidelines” section in Chapters 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10. This source provides practical guidelines and information on culturally attuned practice across the traditional models of MFT.

McGeorge, C. R., Coburn, K. O., Walsdorf, A. A., & Nguyen, H. N. (2022). “We need to state it overtly”: MFT’s rationales for labeling SOCE and GICE as unethical in the code of ethics. Contemporary Family Therapy, 44, 436-451. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10591-022-09649-2
This source provides information that will help you connect the AAMFT Code of Ethics with the practice of therapy, through one example of unethical practice.

AAMFT (2015). Code of Ethics. https://www.aamft.org/AAMFT/Legal_Ethics/code_of_ethics.aspx
This source will allow you to become familiar with the AAMFT Code of Ethics.