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Discuss the issues to be considered in working with children, adolescents, and their families. Discuss competence, consent, confidentiality, reporting, competing interests, and documentation. Make sure to list all practical considerations in any type of work with these populations.

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The solution below should get you started. In this particular task, you are being asked to discuss potential issues in dealing with kids, teens and their families. I suggest using this simple outline:

1. Ethics in Practice - 100 words
2. Potential issues - 150 words
3. Practical Considerations - 100 words

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Ethics in Practice

In sociology, as in the practice of psychology and counseling, working with children, teens and families require the practice of ethics. While science ensures the validity and practicability of knowledge applied and gained, ethics ensures that the practice is done along the lines of what is considered acceptable, right, moral and good. As such organizations like the American Psychological Association and the American Association for Family and Marriage Therapy have established codes of conduct for their members that will govern practice to ensure that standards are high and followed to protect the integrity of practice ...

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