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The Process of Pursuing Ethical Standards

1. When pursuing ethical standards, experts recommend certain assumptions that marriage and family therapists should be aware of, including each of the following EXCEPT:

Boundary Crossings vs. Boundary Violations

2. While a boundary violation is harmful or potentially harmful to the patient and the therapeutic relationship, a boundary crossing is a deviation from classical therapeutic activity that is harmless, non-exploitative, and possibly supportive of the therapy itself.

Multiple Roles

3. As a therapist faces a dilemma with multiple roles or dual relationships, such as Roger does in the vignette, the most important considerations are whether or not there is a potential for exploitation, damage, or disruption, as well as if the relationship could actually have some benefit to the therapeutic process.

Informed Consent

4. Integral parts of an informed consent agreement are what to expect from the therapeutic process, services offered, confidentiality factors and limits, and:  

Confidentiality

5. Which of the following is NOT a general exception to maintaining confidentiality that most professionals must adhere to?

Confidentiality with Minor Clients

6. Although confidentiality issue with minors are often complicated, each of the therapists that evaluated the vignette involving Susie and Mark agreed that the level of risky sexual behavior that Susie was exhibiting warranted informing her parents in order to protect her safety.

Professional Competence and Integrity

7. According to the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, domains for MFTs that fall under the professional competence subdomain include facilitating therapeutic involvement of all necessary participants in treatment, and recognizing issues that might suggest referral for specialized evaluation, assessment, or care.

Professional Boundaries in Supervisorial Relationships

8. When MFTs serve as supervisors to other professionals or students, they are expected to maintain the same standard of professionalism they exhibit as therapists, which includes avoiding exploitation and acting in a way that establishes and preserves trust.

Financial Arrangements

9. Therapists should have a clear statement about financial responsibility in their informed consent agreement or their disclosure statement, and must make financial arrangements with clients that are:

Cultural Competence

10. Although culturally competent therapists have self-awareness, knowledge, skills, and framework to make sound, ethical, and culturally appropriate decisions, conflicts may arise when their beliefs are in opposition to values and practices of other cultures.

11. In the clinical vignette involving Janine and Han, Janine clearly violates an ethical and professional responsibility when she sees marks and bruises on Han’s shoulders and fails to immediately contact child welfare services.

12. The term ____________ is used to acknowledge that while we may never truly understand the experiences of another cultural group of which we are not members, we will have a respectful attitude and approach toward different points of view.