Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS
Part XXV - Credentialed Social Workers
Chapter 1 - Standards of Practice
Section XXV-109 - Competence

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XXV-109

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Provision of Services

1. Social workers should provide services and represent themselves as competent only within the boundaries of their education, training, credential, consultation received, supervised experience, or other relevant professional experience.

2. Social workers should provide services in substantive areas or use intervention techniques or approaches that are new to them only after engaging in appropriate study, training, consultation, and supervision from persons who are competent in those interventions or techniques.

3. When generally recognized standards do not exist with respect to an emerging area of practice, social workers should exercise careful judgment and take responsible steps (including appropriate education, research, training, consultation, and supervision) to ensure the competence of their work and to protect clients from harm.

B. Continued Competence. A social worker shall take all necessary and reasonable steps to maintain continued competence in the practice of social work.

C. Limits on Practice. A social worker shall limit practice to the permissible scope of practice for the social worker's credential.

D. Referrals. A social worker shall make a prompt referral to other professionals when the services required are beyond the social worker's competence. Such referrals are always based solely on the best interests of the client.

E. Delegation. A social worker shall not assign, oversee or supervise the performance of a task by another individual when the social worker knows that the other individual is not credentialed to perform the task or has not developed the competence to perform such a task.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:2705.C.

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