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Facilitation of Healthy Family Functioning: What to do when there are value conflicts regarding sexuality and sexual identity.
Friday, February 17, 2023, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
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Facilitation of Healthy Family Functioning: What to do when there are value conflicts regarding sexuality and sexual identity.
Panel Discussion presented by
Dr. Steve Farmer, Michael Flynn, and Brianna Tran
1 Ethics CEU provided
Members: Free | Non-Members: $10

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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About the Speakers:

Dr. Steve Farmer
Dr. Farmer has been the Program Coordinator of the MA Counseling program at Northern Arizona University – North Valley Campus in Phoenix for 8 years, and he has been a counselor educator for over 10 years. He completed his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, TX. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Texas and Arizona. Dr. Farmer’s areas of interest include counseling LGBT clients, sexual identity development, professional identity development of Counselors in training, advocacy for the profession of Counseling, and the international development of the profession of Counseling.

Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn owns Counseling for Peace, PLLC, and works part-time at Veterans One Stop of the Heart of Texas Behavioral Health Network. He is licensed in Texas as a marriage and family therapist associate and an attorney.

Brianna Tran
Brianna Tran is a Master's degree candidate at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. She is in her last semester of the Marriage, Family, and Child Counseling track. She serves as President for Mu Eta Beta, the program’s chapter for Chi Sigma Iota, Counseling Academic & Professional Honor Society International. She is currently completing her internship at Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's Specialty Clinic.