It can be a challenging task for marriage and family therapists to facilitate healthy family functioning when there are value conflicts regarding sexuality and sexual identity. These circumstances can be highly emotionally-charged for families and can be equally challenging for therapists due to our own values and beliefs. It is imperative, however, that we hold our clients in a safe place where they can heal and make decisions about what healing will look like for themselves as individuals and as a family. In order to accomplish this task as therapists, we must ground our work in sound ethical practice. This panel presentation will review ethical and moral principles, codes, and decision-making practices that will ensure the best outcomes for individuals and their family systems.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be provided a review of the six moral principles that provide the framework for sound ethical thinking when addressing family issues related to value conflicts surrounding sexuality and sexual identity.
2. Participants will be provided a review of the ethical codes, which should guide sound practice when addressing family issues related to value conflicts surrounding sexuality and sexual identity.
3. Participants will be presented with ethical decision-making scenarios, which will address ethics, values, counter-transference, and multicultural issues.

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