Running Head: CONFIDENTIALITY IN FAMILY THERAPY 1
Annotated Bibliography: Confidentiality in Family Therapy
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Annotated Bibliography: Confidentiality in Family Therapy
Mignone, T., Klostermann, K., Mahadeo, M., Papagni, E., & Jankie, J. (2017). Confidentiality
and Family Therapy: Cultural Considerations. ARC Journal of Psychiatry, 2(1), 9-16.
https://www.arcjournals.org/journal-of-psychiatry/volume-2-issue-1/3
The article talks about the maintenance of confidentiality in the family therapy process
and i9ts efficacy. The author suggests that confidentiality is an ethical dilemma in family therapy
due to the multiple numbers of parties involved in the process. It's each therapist's role to decide
when to ensure high standards of confidentiality and when the breach of confidentiality is
justified. The study also explains how culture is related to confidentiality in the family therapy
process. It compares both western and non-western cultures and their relationship with
confidentiality. The study is well researched, timely and has signifying literature. The article
suits the study since it brings in the literature on how family therapy relates to culture and how
culture limits the willingness of a client to disclose information during family therapies.
Shaw, E. (2015). Ethical practice in couple and family therapy: Negotiating rocky terrain.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 36(4), 504-517.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1129
The article by Shaw (2015) expounds on the ethical practices of managing family therapy
between individuals of different ages, capacities, and stages. It explains how the process is
ordinarily complex due to the multiple parties involved. It investigates how necessary ethical
requirements have disparities concerning the family or couple of work. Aspects discussed
include boundaries, juggling multiple imperatives, confidentiality, and consent. The article
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focuses on raising awareness and begins a discussion on the perennial ethical issues in this
practice.
Sori, C. F., & Hecker, L. L. (2015). Ethical and legal considerations when counseling children
and families. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 36(4), 450-464.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1126
In this article, the author establishes the legal and ethical formalities that counselors
should abide by hen counseling families and children. It outlines various legal and ethical issues
that clinicians and therapists, to be specific, need to consider when providing counseling to
families, children, and adolescents. It covers a gap of literature left by ethics courses offered in
training institutions. The subjects discussed in the article include informed consent, forms of
confidentiality, subpoenas, and how parents receive information from family therapists'
information should be indicated to the parents. It also provides literature on the significance of
counselor competencies and cultural considerations in family therapies. It’s essential for our
topic because it covers more on confidentiality between therapists, parents, and children, both
young and adolescents. The research done in the article helps the topic since it gives an
understanding of the challenges that therapists face in their work.
Dermer, S., & Bachenberg, M. (2015). The importance of training marital, couple, and family
therapists in sexual health. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy,
36(4), 492-503. https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.1122
The article explains how training is essential to all therapists doing sexual and marital
counseling. It discusses the World Health Organization's appeal to having all couples, marital,
and family therapists trained on fostering therapeutic care in handling sexual depression and
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health affairs. The paper explores the sexual health services offered to people by mental health
professionals and gives various recommendations for training. It’s significant for the study about
confidentiality because professional training is one of the steps associated with enhancing
privacy and reducing ethical issues in family counseling and therapy. Dermer & Bachenberg
(2015) survey offers a solution to the increasing cases of incompetency reported among family
therapists. The research in this article is well done, timely, and descriptive on continuous training
among therapists to reduce confidentiality issues.
Hertlein, K. M., Blumer, M. L., & Mihaloliakos, J. H. (2015). Marriage and family counselors’
perceived ethical issues related to online therapy. The Family Journal, 23(1), 5-12.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480714547184
In this article, Hertlein, Blumer& Mihaloliakos (2015) discuss the current trend of
technology in counseling and healthcare. There is increased use of technology in therapy,
something that comes along with various challenges. The use of technology in family and couple
therapy is advantageous. Technology-based models usage in family therapy and communication
therapy has multiple ethical concerns. Hertlein, Blumer& Mihaloliakos (2015) conducts a study
using a population of 226 supervisors, students, and licensed marriage and family counselors. It
focused on getting information about the drawbacks and ethical issues associated with online
therapy. In the study, confidentiality in online treatment is discussed as an emerging issue. Other
issues addressed include online therapy's significance to therapeutic relationships, training and
education, liability and licensing issues, and crises and risky healthcare situations. In this study,
the article gives the topic of confidentiality in family therapy information about how technology
impacts family therapy offered in online platforms and how better therapists can resolve the
issue. All the articles are interrelated in that they give diverse information on the issue of
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confidentiality among licensed therapists. The research in this article is well done, timely, and
descriptive on technology among therapists.
