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Supervising Ethical Issues in Couple and Family Therapy

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Introduction

Supervision of couple and family therapy cases is as different from supervision of individual cases as couple/family therapy is different from individual therapy. The couple or family adds levels of complexity in each case. As a result, ethical dilemmas are also different and more complicated. There are two ways to approach the topic of “ethical issues in couple and family therapy”: (a) addressing the ethical issues that arise from delivering couple/family therapy within supervision and (b) addressing the ethical issues that arise within the supervision relationship when discussing couple/family cases.

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The theoretical context for this entry is primarily rooted in the cognitive-behavioral orientation of providing therapy and supervision.

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Although treatment and supervision decisions in both individual therapy and couple/family therapy are guided by the code of ethics outlined by the American Psychological Association (2010), the ethics code...

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  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Tamara G. Sher

  2. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA

    Mike Niznikiewicz & Wenting Mu

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  1. Tamara G. Sher
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Correspondence to Tamara G. Sher .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Jay L. Lebow

  2. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Anthony L. Chambers

  3. The Family Institute at Northwestern University, Center for Applied Psychological and Family Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

    Douglas C. Breunlin

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  1. Utah State University, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

    Thorana Nelson

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Sher, T.G., Niznikiewicz, M., Mu, W. (2019). Supervising Ethical Issues in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_644

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