Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 200 - Behavioral Health and Therapy Board
Chapter 4747 - ALCOHOL AND DRUG COUNSELOR LICENSING
Part 4747.1400 - RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT
Universal Citation: MN Rules 4747.1400
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 39, March 25, 2024
Subpart 1. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 2. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 3. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 4. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 5. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 6. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 7. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 8. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 9. Competency in practice with ethnic minority, disabled, and identified population group clients.
A. A licensee
meets the standards in part
4747.1100, subpart
2, when practicing alcohol
and drug counseling with a client who is a member of an ethnic minority group,
an identified population group, or a client with a disability by acting
according to this subpart. If a licensee is inexperienced as compared to other
licensees or the professional community's standard of care in practicing
alcohol and drug counseling with ethnic minority, identified population, or
disabled clients, the licensee:
(1) engages in
ongoing consultation with a licensee who meets the professional community's
standard of care with respect to such clients;
(2) practices under the supervision of a
licensee who meets the professional community's standard of care with respect
to such clients; or
(3) refers the
client to a licensee who meets the professional community's standard of care
with respect to such clients.
B. An alcohol and drug counselor fluently
speaks the primary or preferred language of the client, works with a certified
or qualified interpreter according to Minnesota Statutes, section
546.44, and
uses the services of a certified or qualified interpreter or refers the client
to a licensee who either is fluent in the client's primary or preferred
language or works with qualified interpreters.
C. Licensees who practice alcohol and drug
counseling with deaf, deaf-blind, hard-of-hearing, or late-deafened clients:
(1) are proficient in American Sign Language
at the advanced-plus level or higher of the Sign Communication Proficiency
Interview (SCPI) ratings, if the client's primary or preferred language is
American Sign Language; or
(2) are
trained in working with and work with an American Sign Language interpreter who
qualifies as both a certified interpreter and a certified transliterator by the
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf or certified at level four or higher by
the National Association of the Deaf; or
(3) refer the client to a licensee who is
either proficient in American Sign Language at the advanced-plus or higher
level or who is trained to work with a certified American Sign Language
interpreter or transliterator. Licensees who practice with such clients must
submit a statement signed by a supervisor that the licensee has demonstrated a
minimum proficiency in practicing with such clients.
D. Licensees inexperienced compared to the
professional community's standard of care in practicing alcohol and drug
counseling with members of identified population groups:
(1) engage in ongoing consultation with a
licensee who meets the professional community's standard of care with respect
to such clients;
(2) practice under
the supervision of a licensee who meets the professional community's standard
of care with respect to such clients; or
(3) refer the client to a licensee who meets
the professional community's standard of care with respect to such
clients.
Subp. 10. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 11. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 12. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Subp. 13. [Repealed, L 2012 c 197 art 2s 45]
Statutory Authority: MS s 148C.03
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