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A member of the PICT Association undertakes to:
- Deliver a copy of these Codes of Ethics and Practice
to every client before the commencement of therapy.
- Offer the highest level of confidentiality consistent
with the law having regard to the safety and welfare of
the client and the safety and welfare of other persons.
Information may be disclosed or published with the written
consent of the client. Client information may be anonymously
published or shared internally and amongst other therapists
within supervision.
- Obtain and maintain comprehensive professional indemnity
insurance, to display a current certificate in their consulting
room and to lodge with the PICT Association a copy of this
insurance.
- Maintain appropriate boundaries with their clients and
to take care not to exploit their clients, current or past,
in any way, financially, sexually or emotionally.
- Respect the dignity and worth of the clients as individual
human beings and not to practise discrimination against
clients on grounds of difference, e.g. sexuality, religion,
race or culture.
- Be open with their clients about their own qualifications,
experience and training, the nature of the therapy they
are able to provide, and possible alternatives available.
- Be aware of the range of their skills, and of their limitations.
Therapists should monitor the progress of their work with
each client, and discuss this with the client at appropriate
intervals. If reasonable progress is not being made, the
therapist has an obligation to so inform the client and
to suggest termination or a change of therapist. It is part
of their professional responsibility to seek information
and advice from colleagues about different methods where
appropriate, and to refer clients to other therapists where
this may be of benefit to the client. The ability to recognise
that one is not the right therapist for a particular client
is a sign of professional competence.
- Maintain and develop their professional competence by
means of further training, research, on-going PICT supervision
or other consultative support; and from within that support
to monitor their own functioning and emotional fitness to
carry out their work.
- Participate in all PICT supervision requirements.
- Use only dignified and reasonable wording in all advertisements
and literature that is becoming of the profession.
- Disclose fees and terms of contract before commencement
of therapy.
- Ensure that the conditions in which they work are suitable
for the type of therapy being provided.
- Never use audio, visual or electronic recordings of sessions
without the written consent of the client.
- Refrain from any behaviour that may be detrimental to
their profession, to colleagues, or to trainees.
- Keep all client records for a period of six years after
which they may be permanently destroyed by shredding or
incineration.
- Take appropriate action, in accordance with the complaints
procedures of the PICT Association, with regard to the behaviour
of a colleague that may be detrimental to the profession,
to clients, to colleagues or trainees. (The resignation
of a member shall not be allowed to impede the process of
any investigation as long as the alleged offence took place
during that person's membership).
- Not hold courses of training with the intention of teaching
others to be PICT Therapists, unless qualified to do so,
but may hold workshops on the use of specific PICT tools.
Only Accredited Therapists, Supervisors and Trainers can
be members of the PICT Association, included in the PICT Therapists
Directory and entitled to PICT Association endorsement. The
PICT Association will not endorse PICT therapists, Supervisors
or Trainers who are not so Accredited and who are not members
of the Association and bound by these Codes of Ethics and
Practice
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