Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists CODE OF ETHICS

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Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists

CODE OF ETHICS

OREGON ADMINISTRATIVE RULES: Division 833, Chapter 60

Responsibility to the Client

Confidentiality

Conduct and Competence

Assessment, Measurement, Research and Consulting


OREGON ADMINISTRATIVE RULES: Division 833, Chapter 60

Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists This code constitutes the standards against which the required professional conduct of licensed professional counselors and marriage and family therapists is measured. Its goal is the welfare and protection of the individuals and groups with whom counselors and therapists work This code applies to the conduct of all licensees, registered interns and applicants, including an applicant’s conduct during the period of education, training, and employment required for licensure. Below are excerpts from the Code of Ethics.


Responsibility to the Client

A licensee's primary professional responsibility is to the client. A licensee makes every reasonable effort to advance the welfare and best interests of all clients for whom the licensee provides professional services. A licensee´s primary professional responsibility is to the client. A licensee must make every reasonable effort to advance the welfare and best interests of families and individuals. A licensee must respect the rights of those persons seeking assistance and make reasonable efforts to ensure that the licensee´s services are used appropriately.


Client Welfare

Licensees strive to benefit those with whom they work and take care to do no harm. In their professional actions, licensees seek to safeguard the welfare and rights of those with whom they interact professionally and other affected persons and hold the welfare and interests of clients as primary.


Integrity

A licensee acts in accordance with the highest standards of professional integrity and competence. A licensee is honest dealing with clients, students, trainees, colleagues, and others.


Confidentiality

A licensee holds in confidence all information obtained in the course of providing professional services, within the limits of the setting, such as a public agency. A licensee safeguards client confidences as required by rule or law.


Conduct and Competence

A licensee accepts the obligation to conform to high standards of conduct in the capacity of a counseling professional. The private conduct of a licensee is a personal matter to the degree that it does not compromise the fulfillment of professional responsibilities. A licensee will respect the traditions of the profession and refrain from conduct that would discredit the profession.


Assessment, Measurement, Research and Consulting

Licensees who conduct professional services related to counseling do so with regard to high ethical standards and do so with the welfare of participants of primary importance. Those services include research, consulting, and providing assessments

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