Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development

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Executive summary
Relationship and family therapy is a respected and necessary intervention in the field of
psychology. It is challenging to manage the patients of different ages, population, and ethnicity
and have to make rapport while performing this therapy. There is a requirement of implementing
a guideline that helps the therapist to follow the rules and provides their best output. However,
the ethical reason is elevated in the time of implementing this. The psychologists often face
concerns that are related to this are competency factors, informed consent, confidentiality. In this
paper, different aspects of ethical issues regarding family and relationship therapy are discussed.
It describes the improvement of reflective practice in multicultural counseling, the relationship
between multicultural competences, ethnicity differences, the issues at the time of implementing
spiritual beliefs in psychotherapy. The role of psychotherapist, ethical guidelines is also
discussed regarding this matter. The paper also discusses the effectiveness of school counseling
among African American students is mentioned along with this.

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Barden, S. M., & Greene, J. H. (2015). An investigation of multicultural counseling
competence and multicultural counseling self-efficacy for counselors-in-
training. International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, 37(1), 41-53.
This article deliberated to provide clinicians to be self-competent and self-efficacious in
terms of ethics as well as effectiveness in varieties of populations. In this article, the meta-
analysis was performed that showed high-efficiency to preserve the challenges of the counselor's
task (Smith & Trimble, 2016). The author concluded that students with high and more prolonged
education had higher multicultural counseling competence (MCC).
The measurement of both the factor MCC and MCSE (Multicultural Counseling Self
efficacy) provided more strong views of MCC, and specific demographic factors predisposed the
mixed across studies, which made the consistency of the article (Dillon, F. R et al., 2016). There
were different types of variance, such as gender, ethnicity, and time in graduate school, that are
highlighted in this article. The significant differences were obtained between ethnicity and self-
reported MCC that was connected with demographic data (Liu, Q et al., 2016). This, in turn, will
increase the chances of ethical issues regarding family counseling. The author stated that the
limitation of this study included the self-report nature of the assessment in the time of MCC
evaluation (Lucas, 2018). After reviewing this literature, I found that the author had tactfully
used the correct methodology in the time of the survey, and then used statistical methods to
analyze the data obtained from the survey that was very helpful to grasp the possible result
(Nard, 2015).
Case, J. C., Sprong, M. E., & Blackwell, T. L. (2016). Rehabilitation Counselor Ethical
Considerations for End-Of-Life Care. Journal of Rehabilitation, 82(1).

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The article primarily focused on principles and guidelines that delivered counselor's
competency, the opportunity of practice, and their selections maintaining confidentiality in the
case of terminally ill patients. The authors used different strategies like client-skilled skills,
knowledge of Laws, family system theory, and act Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation
Counselors (CRCC, 2010) that provided a detailed description of working principles with the
patients of palliative care.
In this article, the authors followed the systemic review analysis and effectively conferred
the results of the topic that maintained the reliability of the context (Ahn & Kang, 2018). Here,
the author stated a practical scenario and possible outcomes that were very useful and provided
uniqueness of the study. The authors suggested that rehabilitation counselors should listen to the
spiritual beliefs of the patient and referred to the patient if they seek. This issue raised ethical
concerns in family counseling or relationship counseling (Stuntzner & Hartley, 2014). The article
highlighted that additional knowledge and skills and continuous education are required for
improving the end of life care practice. Another factor was that the implementation of the rule
might show challenges that limited the study at the end of reviewing this article; I think the
author efficiently described the issues, potential practices, and problems along with the practice
guidelines of counselors.
Collins, S., Arthur, N., & Wong‐Wylie, G. (2010). Enhancing reflective practice in
multicultural counseling through social auditing. Journal of Counseling &
Development, 88(3), 340-347.
The principal purpose of this study is to evaluate the cultural auditing process that is
planned to report critical components of the multicultural capability developmental process as a