Code Of Ethics
for the Certified Clinical Supervisor (CCS)
Certification Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors
[ Non-discrimination,
Responsibility,
Competence, Legal & Moral Standards,
Public Statements,
Publication Credit, Client Welfare,
Confidentiality,
Client Relationships, Interprofessional
Relationships, Remuneration,
Societal Obligations ]
The Clinical Supervisor should not discriminate against clients or
professionals based upon race, religion, age, sex, handicaps, national
ancestry, sexual orientation or economic condition.
The Clinical Supervisor should espouse objectivity and integrity, and
maintain the highest standards in the services the Clinical Supervisor
offers.
- The Clinical Supervisor, as teacher, should recognize
the supervisor's primary obligation to help others acquire knowledge
and skill in dealing with the disease of chemical dependency.
- The Clinical Supervisor, as practitioner, should accept
the professional challenge and responsibility deriving from the
supervisor's work.
The Clinical Supervisor should recognize that the profession is
founded on International Standards of competence, which promote the best
interests of society, of the client, of the counselor and of the
profession as a whole. The supervisor should recognize the need for
ongoing education as a component of professional competency.
- The Clinical Supervisor should prevent the practice of
alcoholism and drug abuse counseling by unqualified and unauthorized
persons.
- The Clinical Supervisor who is aware of unethical
conduct or of unprofessional modes of practice should report such
violations to the appropriate certifying authority.
- The Clinical Supervisor should recognize boundaries and
limitations of supervisor's competencies and not offer services or
use techniques outside of these professional competencies.
- The Clinical Supervisor should recognize the effect of
professional impairment on professional performance and should be
willing to seek appropriate treatment for oneself or for a
colleague. The supervisor should support peer assistance programs in
this respect.
Principle 4: Legal Standards
and Moral Standards
The Clinical Supervisor should uphold the legal and accepted moral
codes, which pertain to professional conduct.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not claim directly or by
implication, professional qualifications/affiliations that the
supervisor does not possess.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not use the affiliation
with the California Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
Counselors for purposes that are not consistent with the stated
purposes of the Association.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not associate with or
permit the supervisor's name to be used in connection with any
services or products in a way that is incorrect or misleading.
- The Clinical Supervisor associated with the development
or promotion of books or other products offered for commercial sale
should be responsible for ensuring that such books or products are
presented in a professional and factual way.
Principle 5: Public Statements
The Clinical Supervisor should respect the limits of present
knowledge in public statements concerning alcoholism and other forms of
drug addiction.
- The Clinical Supervisor who represents the field of
alcoholism counseling to clients, other professionals, or to the
general public should report fairly and accurately the appropriate
information.
- The Clinical Supervisor should acknowledge and document
materials and techniques used.
- The Clinical Supervisor who conducts training in
alcoholism or drug abuse counseling skills or techniques should
indicate to the audience the requisite training/qualifications
required to properly perform these skills and techniques.
The Clinical Supervisor should assign credit to all who have
contributed to the published material and for the work upon which the
publication is based.
- The Clinical Supervisor should recognize joint
authorship, major contributions of a professional character, made by
several persons to a common project. The author who has made the
principle contribution to a publication should be identified as a
first listed.
- The Clinical Supervisor should acknowledge in footnotes
or an introductory statement minor contributions of a professional
character, extensive clerical or similar assistance and other minor
contributions.
- The Clinical Supervisor should acknowledge, through
specific citations, unpublished, as well as published material, that
has directly influences the research or writing.
- The Clinical Supervisor who complies and edits for
publication the contributions of others should list oneself as
editor, along with the names of those who have contributed.
Principle 7: Client Welfare
The Clinical Supervisor should respect the integrity and protect the
welfare of the person or group with whom the supervisor is working.
- The Clinical Supervisor should define for self and
others the nature and direction of loyalties and responsibilities
and keep all parties concerned informed of these commitments.
- The Clinical Supervisor, in the presence of
professional conflict should be concerned primarily with the welfare
of the client.
- The Clinical Supervisor should terminate a counseling
or consulting relationship when it is reasonably clear that the
client is not benefiting from it.
- The Clinical Supervisor, in referral cases, should
assume the responsibility for the client's welfare either by
termination by mutual agreement and/or by the client becoming
engaged with another professional. In situations when a client
refuses treatment, referral or recommendations, the Clinical
Supervisor should carefully consider the welfare of the client by
weighing the benefits of continued treatment or termination and
should act in the best interest of the client.
- The Clinical Supervisor who asks a client to reveal
personal information from other professionals or allows information
to be divulged should inform the client of the nature of such
transactions. The information released or obtained with informed
consent should be used for expressed purposes only.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not use a client in a
demonstration role in a workshop setting where such participation
would potentially harm the client.
- The Clinical Supervisor should ensure the presence of
an appropriate setting for clinical work to protect the client from
harm and the supervisor and the profession from censure.
- The Clinical Supervisor should collaborate with other
health care professional(s) in providing a supportive environment
for the client who is receiving prescribed medications.
The Clinical Supervisor should embrace, as a primary obligation, the
duty of protecting the privacy of clients and should not disclose
confidential information acquired, in teaching, practice or
investigation.
- The Clinical Supervisor should inform the client and
obtain agreement in areas likely to affect the client's
participation including the recording of an interview, the use of
interview material for training purposes, and observation of an
interview by another person.
- The Clinical Supervisor should make provisions for the
maintenance of confidentiality and the ultimate disposition of
confidential records.
- The Clinical Supervisor should reveal information
received in confidence only when there is clear and imminent danger
to the client or to other persons, and then only to appropriate
professional workers or public authorities on a need to know basis.
- The Clinical Supervisor should discuss the information
obtained in clinical or consulting relationships only in appropriate
settings, and only for professional purposes clearly concerned with
the case. Written and oral reports should present only data germane
to the purpose of the evaluation and every effort should be made to
avoid undue invasion of privacy.
- The Clinical Supervisor should use clinical and other
material in classroom teaching and writing only when the identity of
the persons involved is adequately disguised.
The Clinical Supervisor should inform the prospective client of the
important aspects of the potential relationship.
- The Clinical Supervisor should inform the client and
obtain the client's agreement in areas likely to affect the client's
participation including the recording of an interview, the use of
interview material for training purposes, and/or observation of an
interview by another person.
- The Clinical Supervisor should inform the designated
guardian or responsible person of the circumstances, which may
influence the relationship, when the client is a minor or
incompetent.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not enter into a
professional relationship with member's of one's own family,
intimate friends or close associates, or others whose welfare might
be jeopardized by such a dual relationship.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not engage in any type
of sexual activity with a client.
The Clinical Supervisor should treat colleagues with respect,
courtesy and fairness, and should afford the same professional courtesy
to other professionals.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not offer professional
services to a client in counseling with another professional except
with the knowledge of the other professional or after the
termination of the client's relationship with the other
professional.
- The Clinical Supervisor should cooperate with duly
constituted professional ethics committees and promptly supply
necessary information unless constrained by the demands of
confidentiality.
The Clinical Supervisor should establish financial arrangements in
professional practice and in accord with the professional standards that
safeguard the best interests of the client, of the counselor and of the
profession.
- The Clinical Supervisor should consider carefully the
ability of the client to meet the financial cost in establishing
rates for professional services.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not send or receive any
commission or rebate or any other form of remuneration for referral
of clients for professional services. The supervisor should not
engage in fee splitting.
- The Clinical Supervisor in clinical or counseling
practice should not use one's relationship with clients to promote
personal gain or the profit of an agency or commercial enterprise of
any kind.
- The Clinical Supervisor should not accept a private fee
or any other gift or gratuity for professional work with a person
who is entitled to such services though an institution or agency.
The policy of a particular agency may make explicit provisions for
private work with its client by members of its staff, and in such
instances the client must be fully apprised of all policies
affecting the client.
Principle 12: Societal
Obligations
The Clinical Supervisor should advocate changes in public policy
and legislation to afford opportunity and choice for all persons whose
lives are impaired by the disease of alcoholism and other forms of drug
addiction. The supervisor should inform the public through active civic
and professional participation in community affairs of the effects of
alcoholism and drug addiction and should act to guarantee that all
persons, especially the needy and disadvantaged, have access to the
necessary resources and services. The Clinical Supervisor should adopt a
personal and professional stance, which promotes the well being of all
human beings.
Individuals who apply to take the Credentialed Clinical Supervisor
exam will be required to sign a copy of these ethics, thereby agreeing
to comply with the code of ethics as outlined in this document.
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