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ASSIGNMENT:
Sychological Fitness: CITs strive to maintain holistic wellness across multiple domains of their mental, relational, and professional lives while focusing on interpersonal values that promote positive growth. CITs engage in activities that promote openness, selfawareness, and self-acceptance. CITs proactively practice self-care and are committed to mental health support to maintain psychological fitness.
Self-Awareness: CITs intentionally reflect on how their value systems influence their personal and professional relationships. CITs demonstrate authenticity in relation to themselves and others. CITs bracket personal beliefs and values when faced with ideas different from their own to avoid inflicting harm on others.
Section A: The Counseling Relationship and Client Welfare Couple and family counselors advocate for the family as a whole system while considering the uniqueness of each family member.
Couple and family counselors use systems perspectives and theories as they practice counseling. In addition, couple and family counselors understand that each family presents diverse cultural backgrounds and actively attempt to promote their cultural awareness and knowledge.
Couple and family counselors promote multicultural inclusion and do not promote bias or stereotyping regarding family status and/or roles within families.
Couple and family counselors promote client autonomy and facilitate problem solving skills to prevent future problems. They do not make decisions for families or family members when the decision-making rightfully belongs to the family and/or family members. When it is beneficial, couple and family counselors share clinical impressions and recommendations for the purpose of better-informing families.
1. Couple and family counselors do not discriminate or condone discrimination based on age, color, culture, disability, ethnic group, gender, race, language preference, religion, spirituality, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status.
2. Couple and family counselors inform clients of the goals of counseling.
3. Couple and family counselors inform clients in writing of their counseling qualifications, costs of services, goals of counseling and reasonable expectations for outcomes.
4. Couple and family counselors inform clients that they cannot guarantee that counseling will produce positive results for the couple and/or family.
5. Couple and family counselors inform clients if they have any potentially conflictual relationships with the identified client(s) and a third party or institution.
Develop a couple's case scenario where the counselor violates two of the dispositions and provide a description of the IAMFC ethical code violation(s). Include at least one scholarly source to support your response.