Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024
(a)
Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers shall be dedicated to advancing the
welfare of individuals, and children and their families. Certified Behavioral
Health Case Managers shall not participate in, condone, or be associated with
dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation, and shall not exploit their
relationships with the consumers for personal advantage, profit, satisfaction,
or interest.
(b) Certified
Behavioral Health Case Managers shall practice only within the boundaries of
their individual certifications and competence based on their education,
training, supervised experience, state and national accreditations and
licenses.
(c) Certified Behavioral
Health Case Managers shall only use the title if employed by the state or a
private or nonprofit behavioral health services provider contracting with the
state to provide behavioral health services. As an employee of a state or a
private or nonprofit behavioral health provider, reimbursement for services
rendered will not be collected outside of the agency's system of service
reimbursement.
(d) Certified
Behavioral Health Case Managers shall not directly or indirectly suggest that
they are allowed to provide "therapy" or "counseling" services unless licensed
or accredited by the appropriate authority to provide therapy and/or counseling
services.
(e) Certified Behavior
Case Managers shall adhere to the following code of ethics that are set within
the rules of this chapter and set forth by the Department.
(1) Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers
shall be committed to respect the dignity and autonomy of all persons that is
to include, but is not limited to professional relationships with clients (or
former clients), supervisees, students, employees, or research participants in
efforts to maintain the highest standards of their practice.
(2) Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers
shall terminate service to clients, and professional relationships with them,
when such service and relationships are no longer required or in which a
conflict of interest arises.
(3)
Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers shall be aware of and respect
cultural, individual, and role differences, including those based on age,
gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion,
sexual orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic status and consider
these factors when working with members of such groups. They shall also
eliminate the effect on their work of biases based on those factors, and they
do not knowingly participate in or condone activities of others based upon such
prejudices or influence.
(4)
Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers shall be obligated to report
witnessed, involved, or reported ethical violations without violation of any
confidentiality rights that may be involved. Certified Behavioral Health Case
Managers shall be obligated to follow steps of reporting professional
misconduct as set forth by the Department and in this chapter.
(5) Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers
shall give precedence to his or her professional responsibility over personal
interests.
(f) Certified
Behavioral Health Case Managers shall not exploit their relationships with
current or former clients, supervisees, students, employees, or others,
sexually or otherwise, for personal advantage, profit, satisfaction, or
interest.
(1) Certified Behavioral Health
Case Managers shall be committed to each individual's rights of their own life
choices and recovery journey by letting them direct their own healing process.
(2) Certified Behavioral Health
Case Managers shall keep confidential all information entrusted except when to
do so puts the consumer at grave risk. Case Managers will be obligated to
explain the limits of confidentiality initially in the professional working
relationship.
(3) If the demands of
an affiliated organization for whom the Certified Behavioral Health Case
Manager is working, is in conflict with these ethics, the issues must be
clarified and resolved to allow adherence to the Rules of professional Conduct
code set forth in this chapter.
(g) Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers
shall provide services with populations and in areas only within the boundaries
of their competence, based on education, training, supervised experience,
consultation, study or professional experience.
(1) Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers
that delegate or assign work to employees, supervisee, or assistants must take
reasonable steps to see that such person performs the services competently.
(2) Certified Behavioral Health
Case Managers are eligible to provide services within the scope of their
certifications that would not lead to conflict of interest, exploitation of
relationship, loss of objectivity and based on education, training or
experience.
(3) Certified
Behavioral Health Case Managers shall provide clients at the beginning of
service written, accurate and complete information regarding the extent and
nature of the services available to them, to include fees and manner of
payment.
(4) Certified Behavioral
Health Case Managers shall not solicit the clients of one's agency for private
practice or to change service locations.
(5) Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers
shall not commit fraud and shall not represent that she or he performed
services which they did not perform.
Added at 20 Ok Reg 678, eff 2-27-03 (emergency) ; Added at
21 Ok Reg 1088, eff 7-1-04 ; Amended at 27 Ok Reg 2238, eff 7-11-10 ; Amended
at 30 Ok Reg 1424, eff 7-1-13