Nev. Admin. Code § 641C.410 - Responsibility to client
1. A counselor or
certified intern shall serve his or her clients with professional skill and
competence.
2. If a counselor or
certified intern must act on behalf of a client who has been declared to be
incompetent or if a client is otherwise found by the Board to be incapable of
acting in his or her own best interest, the counselor or certified intern shall
safeguard the interests and rights of that client.
3. If another person has been legally
authorized to act on behalf of an incompetent client, a counselor or certified
intern shall deal with the legal representative of the client in accordance
with the best interest of the client.
4. A counselor or certified intern shall not
practice, condone, facilitate or collaborate with any form of discrimination on
the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national
origin, social, economic, health or marital status, political belief, diagnosis
or physical disability, or on the basis of any preference or personal
characteristic, condition or status of a person.
5. A counselor or certified intern shall not
misrepresent to a client the efficacy of his or her service or the results to
be achieved.
6. A counselor or
certified intern shall apprise each of his or her clients of the risks, rights,
opportunities and obligations, financial or otherwise, associated with the
provision of services to the client for counseling for alcohol and drug abuse
or problem gambling.
7. A counselor
or certified intern shall seek the advice and counsel of his or her colleagues
and supervisors when such a consultation is in the best interest of the
client.
8. A counselor or certified
intern shall terminate service to a client and a professional relationship with
a client when the service and relationship are no longer required or no longer
serve the needs of the client.
9. A
counselor or certified intern shall not withdraw his or her counseling services
precipitously, except under unusual circumstances and after giving careful
consideration to all factors in the situation and taking care to minimize
possible adverse effects to the client.
10. A counselor or certified intern who
anticipates the termination or interruption of service to a client shall notify
the client as promptly as possible and seek the transfer, referral or
continuation of service in relation to the needs and preferences of the
client.
11. A counselor or
certified intern shall not influence or attempt to influence a client in any
manner which could be reasonably anticipated in his or her deriving benefits of
an unprofessional nature from the client during the time that the client is
receiving professional services from the counselor or certified intern and for
2 years after the termination of those services.
12. Throughout the period of treatment of a
client and for the 2 years immediately following the termination of the
professional relationship between the client and the counselor treating the
client, the certified intern treating the client, or the treatment program,
facility or agency, if any, the counselor or certified intern treating the
client, as well as any counselors and certified interns employed by the
treatment program, facility or agency, if any, shall not:
(a) Enter into a close personal relationship
with the client, including, without limitation, sponsorship of the client in a
group for self-help, or a romantic or sexual relationship;
(b) Enter into, or attempt to enter into, a
financial relationship with the client that is unrelated to treatment for
alcohol and drug abuse or treatment for problem gambling; or
(c) Enter into a romantic or sexual
relationship with any person who was in a romantic or sexual relationship with
the client during the time that the counselor or certified intern was providing
treatment for alcohol and drug abuse or treatment for problem
gambling.
13. Within the
2 years immediately following the termination of a professional relationship
with, internship for or supervision of a client, certified intern or other
person, a counselor or certified intern shall not solicit or enter into a dual
relationship with the client, certified intern or other person if it is
foreseeable that such a relationship would harm or exploit the client,
certified intern or other person.
Notes
NRS 641C.200
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