Professional Ethics and the Law   [Archived Catalog]
2019-2020 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook
   

MFT 555 - Professional Ethics and the Law

2 Credit(s)

The class reviews the following areas:

  1. Contemporary professional ethics and statutory, regulatory, and decisional laws that delineate the profession's scope of practice;
  2. The therapeutic, clinical, and practical considerations involved in the legal and ethical practice of marriage, family, and child counseling, including family law;
  3. The current legal patterns and trends in the mental health profession;
  4. The psychotherapist/patient privilege, confidentiality, including issues related to a patient being dangerous to self or others and the treatment of minors with and without parental consent;
  5. A recognition and exploration of the relationship between a practitioner's sense of self and human values and his or her professional behavior and ethics. This class meets the BBS requirements for the California MFT license.
Prerequisite(s): MFT 507 , MFT 508  and MFT 522  concurrently