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MFT 552 - Professional Ethics and the Law2 credits 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. |
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