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The 66th AAMFT Annual Conference
Ethical and Legal Challenges in
Contemporary Family Therapy
Memphis, TN
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October 30 - November 2, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Afternoon Workshops
2:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m.
500
CRUCIBLE TRACK: Differentiation, Ethics, and Integrity: The
Therapist’s Crucible
David M. Schnarch
Issues of ethics, integrity and personal
differentiation surface for therapists in vast and complex
ways. The Crucible® Approach proposes that the therapist’s
differentiation plays a critical role in all aspects of
therapy, including treatment outcome. This workshop will
examine: (1) practical ways that the therapist’s
differentiation controls how ethical dilemmas are handled; and
(2) how it co-creates ethical issues to begin with.
501
Culturally Responsive Home-Based Therapy in Foster Care
Amy R. Tuttle
Brent A. Taylor
Norma G. Scarborough
Home-based therapy with children and
adolescents in foster care presents unique ethical
considerations. MFTs are faced with managing confidentiality,
maintaining responsibility to clients, and diagnosing and
intervening in culturally responsive, responsible ways, all
while functioning within multiple systems. This interactive
workshop addresses unique ethical considerations in working
with multiple systems and diverse populations. A culturally
responsive model will be presented.
502
Infusing and Maintaining Hope During Couples Therapy
David B. Ward
Hope is an essential component of
successful couples therapy. In this workshop, participants
will learn about the multidimensional nature of hope,
strategies to infuse their couples therapy sessions with hope,
and strategies to maintain one's own hope during difficult
couples therapy cases.
503
Citizen Health Care: Engaging Families, Engaging Communities
William J. Doherty
Tai Justin Mendenhall
Jerica M. Berge
Citizen health care engages families and
communities as co-producers of health and healthcare. It
encompasses professionals acquiring community organizing
skills for working with families who see themselves as
builders of health (vs. consumers of services). Presenters
will describe the approach, its core practices, several
examples of its implementation, and opportunities for MFTs to
train and engage in this work.
504
Treating High Conflict Families in a Court System
Joe H. Brown
Dana N. Christensen
This presentation will describe PACT
(Parents Achieving with Collaborative Teams), a
court-community program for high conflict, divorced families.
The program is designed to reduce the level of interparental
conflict. PACT is a six session (sixteen hour) program led by
a qualified family therapist. Video examples for each session
will be provided, and ethical and legal issues will be
discussed.
505
Helping the Family Navigate HIV Disclosure of Their Child
Maureen P. Davey
Jill A. Foster
Tracey M. Duncan
Katrina N. Milton
Decision making about disclosure of
younger family member’s HIV diagnosis is fraught with ethical,
legal, and clinical dilemmas, which family therapists need to
be able to navigate in the medical and mental health system.
Drawing on the presenters’ clinical experience, this workshop
will offer practical tools to support helping therapists
navigate HIV disclosure in the context of family
relationships.
506
SPIRITUALITY TRACK: Making Room for Gay Spirituality
Kenneth A. Burr
Spirituality can be a positive resource
for gay clients. Recordings from qualitative focus groups will
feature GLB people discussing what has most helped or hindered
their spiritual growth and development. Models that help
clients connect outside of themselves to find wholeness will
be presented alongside ethical challenges for therapists who
may have a religious or personal bias against homosexuality.
507
Essential Safeguards to Ethical/Legal Practice
Bruce P. Kuehl
Understanding the delicate balance
between individual rights (e.g. self-determination;
confidentiality) and public protection (e.g., no harm) is the
foundation of ethical and legal practice. This workshop will
examine how to best attend to these overlooked and sometimes
competing responsibilities by using key safeguards such as
ethical/legal codes, scope of practice, standard of care,
records, supervision and malpractice criteria.
508
Ethical Issues in Treating Child Sexual Abuse
Andrea Pazdera
Andrea S. Meyer
Lenore M. McWey
This workshop will address the primary
ethical considerations faced by family therapists when working
with children who are victims of sexual abuse. Participants
will be given a detailed description of different treatment
models applicable to victims of sexual abuse, will learn
specific therapeutic techniques, and discuss specific ethical
considerations of such treatment.
509
Ethical Implications of Sexual/Romantic Dual Relationships
Michael D. Howard
Half of all ethical complaints involve
sexual and/or romantic relationships between a therapist and
client. This workshop will equip therapists and supervisors
with the knowledge and practical tools necessary to
effectively handle issues surrounding sexual attraction and
romantic dual relationships. Emphasis will be placed on
self-awareness and identification of potential vulnerabilities
that contribute to these relationships.
510
Mindfulness Ethics: The Neurobiology of Decisions
Thomas G. Camp
Although people generally want to do the
right thing, problems arise when perceptions and rationality
are distorted by impulse and anxiety. In this workshop,
mindfulness practices will be presented as resources for
enhancing awareness of mental processes and for augmenting
capacity for rational choices of behavior. Emerging findings
in neurobiology will be used to demonstrate how mindfulness
works.
511
SUPERVISION TRACK: Ethical and Legal Issues of Supervision
Colleen M. Peterson
This workshop will help participants
identify and explore ethical and legal obligations for
supervisors, both in terms of supervisees and supervisees'
clientele. Participants will receive information regarding
current legal and ethical trends in the area of supervision.
Participants will also receive information regarding
supervisor ethical decision making models and will learn how
to develop their own model.
512
Similar and Diferentes: Debunking the Myth of Latino Sameness
Jose Ruben Parra Cardona
Kendal Holtrop
Ana Rocio Escobar-Chew
Sheena R. Horsford
Jennifer Torres
David J. Cordova
MFTs are ethically mandated to provide
culturally relevant services to clients. However,
overgeneralizations regarding Latino/a populations threaten to
obscure their diverse life experiences and diminish
therapeutic effectiveness. This workshop will present findings
from three qualitative studies conducted with 84 participants
from different Latino/a sub-groups. Common and contrasting
themes will be used to discuss implications for clinical
practice.
513
Strategies for Revitalizing a Non-Sexual Marriage
Barry W. McCarthy
Based on the criterion of having
intercourse less than 10 times a year, approximately one in
five married couples have a non-sexual relationship. This
workshop will present an integrative, couple psychobiosocial
model to understand, assess, treat, and prevent relapse of
this stigmatized sexual problem. Desire is the core of healthy
couple sexuality
514
Hormonal and Mental Health: Essentials for Standards of Care
Linda M. Rio
Robert Knutzen
New research shows that mental health
professionals need to learn proper identification and
treatment skills for the psychological and relational outcomes
of hormonal and neuroendocrine disorders. Symptoms previously
thought of as purely medical must now be evaluated from both
mental and medical perspectives. A relationship between trauma
and the endocrine system will also be addressed.
515
Using Core Competencies for Accreditation and Reaffirmation
James Hibel
Tommie V. Boyd
Ronald J. Chenail
The AAMFT Core Competencies were central
in organizing the evaluation of the presenters’ curriculum,
developing a COAMFTE self study, and participating in their
University’s regional reaffirmation. Presenters will discuss
their plan, specific ways they implemented this plan,
challenges faced, and ideas for improving this process.
Participants will be invited to share questions and
experiences around assessment for accreditation.
516
The Last Will and Testament of Your Private Practice
Carol A. Deel
Ever thought about what will happen to
your files after you die or become incapacitated? Who is the
executor for your practice? Who will inform your clients?
These are important questions that you need to think about
now. This workshop will help you to formulate those questions
and give you a template to use to develop your own practice
will.
517
Integrated Behavioral Health Model: Clinical-Ethical Issues
Layne A. Prest
Heath A. Grames
Integrated behavioral health (IBH) is a
collaborative model addressing medical and mental health
problems in primary care. It is being increasingly implemented
around the world. This presentation will include a description
of the IBH model, discuss its fit with systems approaches,
outline important clinical and ethical issues, and make
recommendations for its implementation for therapists working
in primary care contexts.
518
Authoring Stories of Resilience: Guidelines for Practice
William R. Scott
Effective practice generates guidelines
for a therapeutic stance. The collaborative, relational
therapist as an audience to clients’ stories empowers them to
become their own author-ities, or more involved in the
construction of their own stories. This workshop will present
guidelines for a therapeutic stance, key elements for
re-authored stories, while inviting participants to contribute
and explore additional resiliencies.
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