Laws, Professional Ethics, and Community Practice & Teletherapy

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This course covers professional ethical standards and legal considerations, licensing law and process, regulatory laws that delineate the profession's scope of practice, counselor-client privilege, confidentiality, the client dangerous to self or others, treatment of minors with or without parental consent, relationship between practitioner's sense of self and human values, functions and relationships with other human service providers, strategies for collaboration, and advocacy processes needed to address institutional and social barriers that impeded access, equity, and success for clients. Also, students learn an examination of the most important areas of legal and ethical concern to marriage and family therapists and other mental health practitioners in California.