Discover essential techniques, ethical decision-making models, and legal considerations to help navigate professional practice.

Gain essential insight into the professional identity and development of couple, marriage, and family therapists. This text guides learners through foundational theory and current practice expectations, encouraging critical thinking and ethical introspection. It supports students as they shape their values, roles, and responsibilities in a field influenced by history, philosophy, and evolving cultural demands.

Key Features:

• Covers systemic theory, ethics, telehealth, intimate partner violence, suicide, racism, legal practice, and emerging relational therapy challenges

• Develops ethical maturity, systemic competence, and cultural responsiveness for confident clinical decision-making

• Includes standards-aligned activities, case studies, Voices From the Field, and links for applied learning

• Written by an experienced educator and practitioner with deep expertise in systemic ethics and therapist development

  Autorentext

  Stephen V. Flynn, PhD, LPC, LMFT-S, NCC, ACS, is a professor of counselor education, a research fellow, the founding director of the Marriage and Family Therapy program, and the Play Therapy program coordinator at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Flynn teaches counseling; couple, marriage, and family; child and adolescent; and research and writing courses for the Counselor Education, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Educational Leadership graduate programs at Plymouth State University. He is a licensed professional counselor (Colorado), a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT; Colorado, New Hampshire), a national certified counselor, an approved clinical supervisor, an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) clinical fellow, and an AAMFT approved supervisor.