Responsibility
"Marriage and family therapists provide professional assistance to persons without discrimination on the basis of race, age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, gender, health status, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or relationship status" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.1 Non-Discrimination
"Marriage and family therapists obtain appropriate _____ to therapy or related procedures and use language that is reasonably understandable to clients. When persons, due to age or mental status, are legally incapable of giving ____marriage and family therapist obtain informed permission from a legally authorized person if such substitute consent is legally permissible [....]
1.2 Informed Consent
"Marriage and family therapists are aware of their influential positions with respect to clients, and they avoid exploiting the trust and dependency of such persons. Therapists, therefore, make every effort to avoid conditions and _____ with clients that could impair professional judgment or increase the risk of exploitation. Such relationships include, but are not limited to, business or close personal relationships with a client or the client's immediate family. When the risk of impairment or exploitation exists due to conditions or multiple roles, therapists document the appropriate precautions taken" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.3 Multiple Relationships
"___with current clients or with known members of the client's family system is prohibited" (AAMFT, Code of ethics, 2022).
1.4 Sexual Intimacy with Current Client and Others
"___ with former clients or with known members of the client's family system is prohibited" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.5 Sexual Intimacy with Former Clients and others.
"Marriage and family therapists respect the rights of clients to make decisions and help them to understand the consequences of these decisions. Therapists clearly advise clients that clients have the responsibility to make decisions regarding relationships such as cohabitation, marriage, divorce, separation, reconciliation, custody, and visitation" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.8 Client Autonomy in Decision Making
"Marriage and family therapists comply with applicable laws regarding the reporting of alleged unethical conduct" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.6 Reports of Unethical Conduct.
"Marriage and family therapists do not abuse their power in therapeutic relationships" (AAFMT, Code of Ethics, 20220).
1.7 Abuse of Therapeutic Relationship
"Marriage and family therapists continue therapeutic relationships only so long as it is reasonably clear that clients are benefiting from the relationship" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.9 Relationship Beneficial to Client
"Marriage and family therapists respectfully assist persons in obtaining appropriate therapeutic services if the therapists is unable or unwilling to provide professional help" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.10 Referrals
"Marriage and family therapists do not __ or neglect clients in treatment without making reasonable arrangements for the continuation of treatment" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.11 Non-Abandonment
"Marriage and family therapists obtain informed consent from clients before recording any images or audio or permitting third-party observation" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.12 Written Consent to Record
"[...] The consent of ___ may vary depending upon the client and treatment plan; however, informed consent generally necessitates that the client: (a) has the capacity to consent; (b) has been adequately informed of significant information concerning treatment processes and procedures; (c) has been adequately informed of potential risks and benefits of treatments for which generally recognized standards do not yet exist; (d) has freely and without undue influence expressed consent; and (e) has provided consent that is appropriately documented" (AAFMT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.2 Informed Consent (CONT.).
"Marriage and family therapists, upon agreeing to provide services to a person or entity at the request of a third party, clarify, to the extent feasible and at the outset of the services, the nature of the relationship with each party and the limits of confidentiality" (AAMFT, Code of Ethics, 2022).
1.13 Relationship with Third Parties