Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 641C - Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Counselors › STANDARDS OF PRACTICE › Section 641C.410 - Responsibility to client

Current through June 11, 2024
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.