Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. Avoidance of False or Deceptive Statements
1. Public statements include but are not
limited to paid or unpaid advertising, product endorsements, grant
applications, licensing applications, other credentialing applications,
brochures, printed matter, directory listings, personal resumes or curricula
vitae or comments for use in media such as print or electronic transmission,
statements in legal proceedings, lectures and public oral presentations and
published materials.
2.
Psychologists do not knowingly make public statements that are false, deceptive
or fraudulent concerning their research, practice or other work activities or
those of persons or organizations with which they are affiliated.
3. Psychologists do not make false, deceptive
or fraudulent statements concerning:
a. their
training, experience or competence;
b. their academic degrees;
c. their credentials;
d. their institutional or association
affiliations;
e. their
services;
f. the scientific or
clinical basis for or results or degree of success of, their
services;
g. their fees;
or
h. their publications or
research findings.
4.
Psychologists claim degrees as credentials for their health services only if
those degrees were earned from a regionally accredited educational institution,
or were the basis for psychology licensure by the state in which they
practice.
B. Statements
by Others
1. Psychologists who engage others
to create or place public statements that promote their professional practice,
products, or activities retain professional responsibility for such
statements.
2. Psychologists do not
compensate employees of press, radio, television or other communication media
in return for publicity in a news item.
3. A paid advertisement relating to
psychologists' activities must be identified or clearly recognizable as
such.
C. Descriptions of
Workshops and Non-Degree-Granting Educational Programs. To the degree to which
they exercise control, psychologists responsible for announcements, catalogs,
brochures or advertisements describing workshops, seminars or other
non-degree-granting educational programs ensure that they accurately describe
the audience for which the program is intended, the educational objectives, the
presenters and the fees involved.
D. Media Presentations. When psychologists
provide public advice or comment via print, Internet or other electronic
transmission, they take precautions to ensure that statements:
1. are based on their professional knowledge,
training or experience in accord with appropriate psychological literature and
practice;
2. are otherwise
consistent with this Chapter; and
3. do not indicate that a professional
relationship has been established with the recipient.
E. Testimonials. Psychologists do not solicit
testimonials from current therapy clients/patients or other persons who because
of their particular circumstances are vulnerable to undue influence.
F. In-Person Solicitation. Psychologists do
not engage, directly or through agents, in uninvited in person solicitation of
business from actual or potential therapy clients/patients or other persons who
because of their particular circumstances are vulnerable to undue influence.
However, this prohibition does not preclude:
1. attempting to implement appropriate
collateral contacts for the purpose of benefiting an already engaged therapy
client/patient; or
2. providing
disaster or community outreach services.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
37:2353.
