2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Oct 31, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog
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MFT 5233 - Professional Issues, Ethics, and the Law


Credits: 3

A seminar which focuses on the development of a professional attitude, identity and socialization of the marriage and family therapist. It examines the AAMFT code of ethics and the codes of ethics of other mental health professional associations. Special attention is given to ethical dilemmas unique to the treatment of families utilizing ethical decision-making models, relevant laws regulating the practice of family therapy, the role of the family therapist in court proceedings, and malpractice risks, malpractice insurance coverage, and risk reduction practices.



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