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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Professional Regulation in Marital and Family Therapy: An Overview | |
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| The Why of Professional Regulation | |
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| Major Forms of Professional Regulation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Defining Marital and Family Therapy: The Foundation for Defining Competence | |
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| Approaches to Conceptualizing Family Therapy | |
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| General Definitions | |
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| Definitional Evolution | |
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| A Different Definitional Orientation: Legal Approaches | |
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| Continuing Definitional Evolution | |
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| Definitional Influences: Recurring Concerns about Assessment and Diagnosis | |
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| Sanction: A Different (and Slightly Higher) Definitional Hurdle | |
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| "Two Things You Don't Want to See Made Are Sausage and the Law" | |
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| A Sampling of Other Definitions and Scopes of Practice | |
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| Explicit Limitations on Scopes of Practice | |
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| Operational Definitions | |
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| The Practice-Pattern Approach | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Defining Minimal Competence through Basic Credentialing Requirements | |
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| Pathways to Credentialing | |
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| Evaluative Criteria | |
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| Competency-Based Assessment and Globalization | |
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| Maintaining Professional Credentials | |
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| Other Benchmark Standards | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Assessing Professional Competence: Marital and Family Therapy Examination Programs | |
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| Types of Professional Examinations | |
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| Written Examinations | |
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| Pass-Points: The Least One Needs to Know | |
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| Oral Examinations | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Disciplinary Procedures in Marital and Family Therapy | |
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| The Philosophical and Legal Grounds for Malpractice | |
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| Professional Misconduct in the Marital and Family Therapy Field | |
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| Methods of Redress | |
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| Generic Elements of the Grievance Process | |
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| Specific Models of the Grievance Process | |
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| The Disciplinary Continuum | |
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| Clinical and Training Implications | |
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| Unanswered Questions | |
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| Guidelines for the Prudent Practitioner | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Challenges in Professional Regulation | |
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| Principles for Marital and Family Therapy Regulation | |
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| Comprehensiveness | |
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| Resources | |
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| Integration | |
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| Consistency | |
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| Credentials | |
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| Demonstrated Competency | |
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| Explicit Sanction | |
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| Clinical Reference Points | |
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| Disciplinary Responsiveness | |
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| Freedom of Choice | |
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| Summary | |
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| Notes | |
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| Principal Marriage and Family Therapy Professional Associations and Regulatory Groups | |
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| Selected Elements of Marriage and Family Therapy Licensure and Certification Laws: An Introduction | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |