Marriage and Family Therapists

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1. 01Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and behaviors.
2. 02Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive manner.
3. 03Develop and implement individualized treatment plans addressing family relationship problems, destructive patterns of behavior, and other personal issues.
4. 04Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes, evaluations, and recommendations.
5. 05Counsel clients on concerns, such as unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing, home management, or financial difficulties.
6. 06Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, or legal aid.
7. 07Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants.
8. 08Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.
9. 09Diagnose mental and emotional disorders in clients.
10. 10Confer with clients to develop plans for posttreatment activities.
11. 11Collect information about clients, using techniques such as testing, interviewing, discussion, or observation.
12. 12Gather information from doctors, schools, social workers, juvenile counselors, law enforcement personnel, and others to make recommendations to courts for resolution of child custody or visitation disputes.

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