Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in the Practice of Marriage and Family Therapy, Updated Edition (New 2013 Counseling Titles)

This book is very dry and a bit too wordy. I get that ethics isn't the most thrilling topic but this book wasn't my fave. As a student currently reading this, I wouldn't have purchased it had I known beforehand. Definitely recommend renting this one if you're a student. I doubt you'd use it after grad school.

The book is ok. It is quite dense and not so easy to teach out of. I am a university professor and was hoping the book would be a little more engaging.

I have used this book in the ethics class I teach, but be aware that the AAMFT Code of Ethics was updated again since this edition was published. After 11 years with no revisions, AAMFT revised its Code of Ethics in 2012 and again in 2015, so I feel for the authors having to try to keep up with this - they revised the 5th edition to incorporate the 2012 Code of Ethics revision. I'm really hoping the authors revise this again as they have done a great job in this and in earlier editions.

This book was required reading form my class on Marriage and Family Ethics. I was not too excited about reading yet another book on ethics, but once I started looking through the book I saw that this was not your normal dry ethics book. It had case studies that brought context and covered all the new changes in laws and polices that are current. It even covers other professional issuers for counselors such as supervision and licensure. I recommend this book if you want to be up to date in your practice. In the appendix it also includes sample documents for privacy polices and disclosure forms to help the clinician create their own that is up to standards. The most helpful part for me was a diagram of a decision tree, to help guide ethical decision making.

i decided to buy it even though laws and ethical standards change per year. but it doesn't hurt to just keep it which is what I wanted. very new book and came in great condition!

Very essential book for my master's program

Offers information about being an ethical therapist with helpful vignettes. Not too boring.

This is an awesome resource,,,unfortunately windows 8 does not support on kindle so I had to use my little computer to access...The read is very direct with lots of practice examples...a must read for any person going into this field of expertise...Highly recommend!

great condition.