The differences in legal and ethical considerations for group and family therapy and individual therapy Group or family therapy involves group sessions that benefit members emotionally.

They support each other and share experiences whereby individual therapy involves one individual involved in the therapeutic process. Ethically, these two categories are set apart by therapists’ ethical obligations to foster the group and family members' well-being. This means more responsibilities considering all the clients, unlike individual therapy, which does not require exercising judgment (Bernal et al., 2017). Legal consideration for group and family therapy is obtained during the combined therapy session, which is more challenging in group and family therapy. Each member signs an informed consent, which means the therapist acts as though each person in the group is an individual client. Additionally, any information acquired privately, such as a group member's call, is not shared with other group or family members. Still, confidentiality is upheld irrespective of the clients being in a group (Stoll et al., 2020). However, in individual therapy, informed consent is obtained from the client, allowing the information to be used or kept confidential. Group and family therapy base ethical and legal consideration on the family system focusing on the relationship. In contrast, ethical and legal consideration on the individual therapy part is confidentiality, responsibility and informed concept. It creates an ethical consideration difference between these two therapies, creating a dilemma in group and family therapy with many clients in a similar situation. Therefore an intervention process should serve all the involved clients with different and conflicting interests and goals which hinders specific exploration of a specific

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