Special Ethical Issues Involved in Counseling Groups

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Special Ethical Issues Involved in Counseling
Groups Families
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Issues in Group Work
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Issues in Group Work

• Involuntary Group Participation.
• Students participation in a self-exploration
  group.
• Involuntary Groups
• Record Keeping

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MFT Concepts

• Systemic perspective
• Circular Causality
• Homoeostasis
• Rules, boundaries, subsystems.

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MFT Concepts continued

• All behavior is communication about the
  relationships within the system.
• Shared Responsibility
• Presenting problems, even apparently individual
  problems, are conceptualized as relational in
  nature.
• Identified patient or scapegoat.
• Family patterns (and problems) tend to be passed
  from generation to generation.

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Issues in MFT
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Additional MFT Issues
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Ethical Guidelines for MFT
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KY 209.30

• Duty to report abuse or neglect of vulnerable
  adults, including victims of spousal abuse.