Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy - Paperback

by Megan J. Murphy (Editor), Lorna Hecker (Editor)

Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy, Second Edition builds upon the strong foundations of the first edition. This new edition addresses the 2015 AAMFT Code of Ethics as well as other professional organizations' codes of ethics, and includes three new chapters: one on in-home family therapy, a common method of providing therapy to clients, particularly those involved with child protective services; one chapter on HIPAA and HITECH Regulations that practicing therapists need to know; and one chapter on professional issues, in which topics such as advertising, professional identity, supervision, and research ethics are addressed. This book is intended as a training text for students studying to be marriage and family therapists.

Author Biography

Megan J. Murphy, PhD, LMFT, is an associate professor and director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana. She currently serves as a commissioner on the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education and was a coeditor of Families Across Time: A Life Course Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Lorna Hecker, PhD, LMFT, is a professor and director of the Couple and Family Therapy Center at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Indiana. She is Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security expertise in HIPAA and HITECH regulations. She edited the first edition of Ethics and Professional Issues in Couple and Family Therapy, and her previous publications include The Therapist's Notebook: Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy (Volumes 1, 2, and 3), The Therapist's Notebook for Children and Adolescents, and An Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy (Routledge). She also authored the book HIPAA Demystified: HIPAA Compliance for Mental Health Professionals (Loger Press).