Ethical Considerations in Family Therapy

Ethical Considerations in Family Therapy

Introduction

The American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy Code of Ethics was proposed in 1991. This set comprises of eight general principles. While providing counseling services to the families, therapist can face many ethical dilemmas. The dilemmas can include the inability to treat the entire family as one unit, differences in values, imposing feminist values, manipulating the payments for services, biases towards marital status, inability to report child abuse, improper supervision of trainees and many others (Wilcoxon et.al, 2011). It is clear that these ethical issues must be dealt in light of AAMFT ...