You refer a current client for adjunctive treatment. What reason would you do this?

You are a licensed marriage and family therapist who has just opened their own private practice. A 15-year-old boy walks into your office and tells you that he was born into the wrong body and really wants to see you to discuss his "mixed feelings". The boy says, "My parents do not understand me, and I really need to talk to someone without them knowing." What do you do?

Your client threatens to kill his wife, and you determine that his threat is serious. You are legally required to do which of the following?

A client says that he has just received a letter from his insurance company denying coverage of any additional therapy sessions. His therapist believes he needs additional sessions to achieve his therapy goals. What should the therapist do?

You receive a call from a woman who says she has been in therapy with another therapist who let her pay for treatment by doing office work for him. She says she would like to start seeing you now and asks if you could make the same fee arrangement. You should _____________________.

Your clients are two emancipated minors, Sal and Sally, ages 14 and 16. They tell you that they are in love and are having consensual sexual relations. What should you do?

A therapist is treating a couple. One partner reveals information to the therapist during a phone call and asks that it be withheld from the spouse. What should the therapist do?

An attorney referred Bao, a 32-year-old Vietnamese male, who is about to have a divorce hearing. Bao appears agitated and is experiencing a depressed mood and sleep problems. He tells you he heard from a neighbor that his wife, Mai, is going on dates with her old boyfriend, Jim. You refer Bao to a psychiatrist for a medication evaluation and begin treating him using a cognitive-behavioral approach after assessing his risk for suicide. Bao does express suicidal ideation but says that he has no plan. After six weeks of treatment, you receive a call from a woman identifying herself as Bao’s mother. She says, "Bao bought a gun yesterday and says he is going to shoot Mai and Jim." You should __________

To be consistent with legal requirements, an MFT may deny a patient access to their own protected health information (PHI) _____________________.

An MFT, who is also an instructor at the local community college, is providing couples therapy to a newly married couple who are having trouble adapting to married life. After getting their permission to do so, the MFT makes video recordings of the couple during several of their sessions. Several weeks after the couple terminates therapy, the MFT decides to use some of the recordings in their college courses. What is true about this situation?

You have found that, when working with difficult clients, it is often useful to make and review a video recording of therapy sessions. You would also like to use the recordings to illustrate therapeutic techniques in a graduate-level class that you teach. You can ________________

Your 83-year-old female client is physically disabled. She tells you that the daughter who was living with and caring for her has disappeared and cannot be located. She says she thinks her daughter has "run off" with her new boyfriend and is worried about her and how she's going to be able to get along without her. You ____________________.

You are treating a family that includes two children. The teenage girl has been beating up her 7-year-old brother and has knocked him to the floor several times. The parents say they try to stop this and have put her on restriction numerous times, but she just "keeps at it." The girl states, "He is such an annoying little brat. He's always taking my stuff, and he won't stay out of my room." The 7-year-old responds by throwing a spitball at her and calling her a "witch." The parents look at each other and the mother states, "This is what we have to live with. I tell you, it's hell." You should _____________________.

An emancipated minor is in treatment with an MFT. She has many family problems that she is trying to work on and has discussed bringing in family members for a session at some point in the future. Although she is emancipated, she is somewhat financially dependent upon her family, and her grandmother is paying for her treatment. One day, her grandmother calls the therapist and asks about the progress of her granddaughter. The therapist should _____________________.

A recently-divorced 32-year-old woman makes an appointment with you at the recommendation of her physician who has diagnosed her recurrent headaches as tension headaches. The woman tells you that a friend of hers was trained in self-hypnosis for a similar problem, and that she also wants training in self-hypnosis. You took a course in graduate school on hypnosis that covered self-hypnosis but have not used hypnosis or self-hypnosis in your clinical practice. You should ____________________

Your client is planning to seek full custody of her children. She divorced her husband two years ago, and she tells you that her children "don’t like to visit their dad" and that she suspects he is using drugs. "I tried to be fair by sharing custody," she says, "but I feel it would be best for them if I have it and they just visit with him." She wants to know how the issue of custody will be decided. You should tell her ____________________

You are asked by one of the parents in a custody case to offer an opinion as to the best custody arrangement for the couple’s 13-year-old child at an upcoming hearing. The parent making the request believes you are the best person to offer an opinion since you have been seeing the parent and occasionally the child in individual therapy since the parents separated six months ago. You should ____________________

You are treating a 13-year-old client with the consent of her mother. One day you receive a call from the client's mother who requests access to her daughter's therapy records. You believe that agreeing to this request may be psychologically harmful to the girl. You ______________________

An MFT is going on vacation and has arranged for coverage by another therapist who has agreed to see any of her clients who may be in need. The MFT checks her voicemail and finds that two clients have left messages. She should _______

An MFT is the supervisor of several associates at a community hospital in a small town and notices that one of the associates seems unenthusiastic and depressed. When he talks to her, she tells him that she's been very unhappy lately and feels she has no one to turn to. The associate asks the MFT to see her in therapy, and he agrees to do so. The MFT has acted _________________

Your new client says he's been having trouble in his relationship with his girlfriend lately, and he also complains of restlessness, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. You refer him to a physician who then refers him to a psychiatrist, and the psychiatrist determines that the man would benefit from antianxiety medication. You ask the client to sign an authorization so you can confer with the psychiatrist, but the client says he hasn't filled the prescription and isn't even sure if he wants to take the medication. You should ____________________

You have been seeing Alfredo in therapy for over six months and believe he is no longer benefiting from therapy. However, when you discuss the possibility of terminating therapy, he says he's happy with his progress and wants to continue. As an ethical therapist, you _________________ .

Which of the following is true regarding minors receiving replacement narcotic abuse treatment?

An MFT who recently died had made arrangements to pass along her client records to another therapist in the event of her illness, disability, or death. What should this therapist do with the records?

A divorced mother brings her daughter for therapy. The daughter has had "emotional problems" according to the mother, including breaking down sobbing whenever she doesn't get her way. The mother was in jail when her divorce became final, and she says she isn't sure of the formal custody arrangements. She hasn't seen the child's father since she was released from jail. With regard to seeing the daughter in therapy, you ________________________

Mr. Morris contacts his son's school requesting that he be allowed to review his son's school records. The son has been treated for ADHD and is in a special program at the school designed to decrease the stimulation such students encounter in the setting and increase their success. It turns out that Mr. Morris is not the custodial parent and that his son has been living with Mrs. Morris for over two years. California law provides that

Mary Linden was recently hired as an MFT by a community mental health center. Shortly after beginning her job, Mary begins therapy with a client whose symptoms suggest a diagnosis of agoraphobia and are impacting her relationship with her husband and children. Although Mary has some experience with other anxiety disorders, she has never worked with an agoraphobic client. As an ethical therapist, Mary should ________________

An 11-year-old wants to see you for therapy without his parents' knowledge. You .

Mrs. Lewis, a licensed MFT, regularly waives the co-payment for her low-income clients who are covered by insurance. She believes this is acceptable since she normally bills her clients using a sliding fee scale. In this situation, waiving the co-payment is _________________

A couple is in counseling because they feel that they have 'lost touch with each other.' He is an airline pilot who is frequently out of town, and she is a third-grade teacher. They want to improve their communication and find ways to connect more deeply when he is in town. She originally came to therapy by herself, but it quickly became apparent that the best unit of treatment was the couple, so you began couples therapy after the second session. If you were asked to release information to a third party, CAMFT Ethical Standards specify that, when a therapist is seeing clients conjointly ________________.

Welfare and Institutes Code Section 15610 states that mandated reporters MUST report all of the following types of elder abuse EXCEPT .

The therapist should .Mike and Molly come to therapy for help with what they describe as "too much arguing." They have been dating for two years and have been having a lot of trouble agreeing on things for the last eight months. Mike seems reluctant about coming to therapy, and Mike and Molly tend to resist the therapist's questions. After three sessions, Molly shows up alone at the scheduled appointment, saying Mike could not make it and that she's glad for some private time to express some of her own concerns. The therapist should _________________________.

Ms. Melba Morrison, a licensed MFT, conducts research and teaches several classes at a large university. In her advanced course on couple and family therapy, she doesn't present any information that is inconsistent with the results of her own research. In terms of the ethical guidelines, this practice is _______________________.