Ethics cont'd Flashcards

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Support Choice

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1) Peer supporters do not force or coerce others to participate in peer support services or ANY OTHER service.
2) Respect the rights of individuals to choose or cease support services or use the services of another peer supporter.
3) Peer supporters have the right to choose not to work with individuals with a particular background if the peer supporter’s personal issues or lack of expertise could interfere with the ability to provide effective support to these individuals.
4) Peer supporters advocate for choice when they observe coercion in any mental health or substance use service setting.

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Withhold judgment about others

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1) Peer supporters EMBRACE DIFFERENCES of those they support as potential learning opportunities.
2) Peer supporters RESPECT AN INDIVIDUAL’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE the pathways to recovery individuals believe will work best for them.
3) Peer supporters connect with others WHERE AND AS THEY ARE.
4) Peer supporters do not evaluate or assess others.

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Share Hope

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1) Peer supporters tell strategic stories of their personal recovery in relation to current struggles faced by those who are being supported.
2) Peer supporters MODEL RECOVERY BEHAVIORS at work and act as ambassadors of recovery in all aspects of their work.
3) Peer supporters help others reframe life challenges as opportunities for personal growth.

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Listen with emotional sensitivity

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1) Peer supporters practice effective listening skills that are non-judgmental.

2) Peer supporters understand that even though others may share similar life experiences, the range of responses may vary considerably.

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Be curious and embrace diversity

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1) Peer supporters embrace DIVERSITY OF CULTURE AND THOUGHT as a means of personal growth for those they support and themselves.
2) Peer supporters encourage others to explore how differences can contribute to their lives and the lives of those around them.
3) Peer supporters practice patience, kindness, warmth and dignity with everyone they interact with in their work.
4) Peer supporters treat each person they encounter with dignity and see them as worthy of all basic human rights.
5) Peer supporters embrace the full range of cultural experiences, strengths, and approaches to recovery for those they support and themselves.

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Educate and advocate

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  1. Peer supporters recognize and find appropriate ways to call attention to injustices.
  2. Peer supporters strive to understand how injustices may affect people.
  3. Peer supporters encourage, coach, and inspire those they support to challenge and overcome injustices.
  4. Peer supporters use language that is supportive, encouraging, inspiring, motivating and respectful.
  5. Peer supporters help those they support explore areas in need of change for themselves and others.
  6. Peer supporters recognize injustices peers face in all contexts and act as advocates and facilitate change where appropriate.
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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Address difficult issues with caring and compassion

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  1. Peer supporters respect privacy and confidentiality.
  2. Peer supporters engage, when desired by those they support, in candid, honest discussions about stigma, abuse, oppression, crisis or safety.
  3. Peer supporters exercise compassion and caring in peer support relationships.
  4. Peer supporters do not make false promises, misrepresented themselves, other or circumstances.
  5. Peer supporters strive to build peer relationships based on integrity, honesty, respect and trust.
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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Embody Equality

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1) Peer supporters use language that reflects a MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP with those they support.
2) Peer supporters behave in ways that reflect respect and mutuality with those they support.
3) Peer supporters do not express or exercise power over those they support.
4) Peer supporters do not diagnose or offer medical services, but do offer a complementary service.

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: See what’s strong not what’s wrong

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1) Peer supporters encourage others to identify their strengths and use them to improve their lives.
2) Peer supporters focus on the strengths of those they support.
3) Peer supporters use their own experiences to demonstrate the use of one’s strengths, and to encourage and inspire those they support.
4) Peer supporters encourage others to explore dreams and goals meaningful to those they support.
5) Peer supporters operate from a strength-based perspective and acknowledge the strengths, informed choices and decisions of peers as a foundation of recovery.
6) Peer supporters don’t fix or do for others what they can do for themselves.

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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Set clear expectations and use plain language

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  1. Peer supporters clearly explain what can or cannot be expected of the peer support relationship.
  2. Peer supporters use language that is clear, understandable, and value/judgment free.
  3. Peer supporters use language that is supportive and respectful.
  4. Peer supporters provide support in a professional, yet humanistic manner.
  5. Peer supporters roles are distinct from the roles of other behavioral health service professionals.
  6. Peer supporters make only promises they can keep and use accurate statements.
  7. Peer supporters do not diagnose nor do they prescribe or recommend medications or monitor their use.
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National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters

Practice: Focus on the person, not the problems

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  1. Peer supporters encourage those they support to make their own decisions.
  2. Peer supporters, when appropriate, offer options to those they serve.
  3. Peer supporters encourage those they serve to try new things.
  4. Peer supporters help others learn from mistakes.
  5. Peer supporters encourage resilience.
  6. Peer supporters encourage personal growth in others.
  7. Peer supporters encourage and coach those they support to decide what they want in life and how to achieve it without judgment.
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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Professional Standards.

1.1. An applicant or certified professional

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shall meet and comply with all terms, conditions, or limitations of any professional credential they hold.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Professional Standards.

1.2. An applicant or certified professional

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shall not perform services outside of their area of training, expertise, competence, or scope of practice

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Professional Standards.

1.3. An applicant or certified professional

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shall not , in any way, participate in discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, socio-economic status, political belief, psychiatric or psychological impairment, physical disability, or the amount of previous therapeutic or treatment occurrences.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Professional Standards.

1.4. An applicant or certified professional

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shall place their application or credential(s) on inactive status for any mental, physical, or behavioral health related adversity that interferes with their professional functioning.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Professional Standards.

1.5. An applicant or certified professional

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shall not practice during the period of any denial, suspension, revocation, probation, or other restriction or discipline on certification, license, or other authorization to practice issued by any certification authority or any state, province, territory, tribe, or the federal government.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Professional Standards.

1.6. An applicant or certified professional

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must maintain a high standard of ethical and professional conduct. The moral, ethical, and legal standards of behavior of the certified professional are a personal matter to the same degree as they are for any other citizen, except as they may compromise the fulfillment of their professional responsibilities or reduce the public trust in applicants or certified professionals.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Criminal Activity

2.1. An applicant or certified professional

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shall report all arrests and case disposition, regardless of adjudication to any felony or first degree misdemeanor crime. Such report much be received WITHIN 72 HOURS from any state or federal confinement.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Criminal Activity

2.2. An applicant or certified professional

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shall not use, possess, or sell any unprescribed or illegal substance.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Criminal Activity

2.3. An applicant or certified professional

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Shall comply with all federal and state laws.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Sexual Misconduct

3.1 An applicant or certified professional

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shall not engage in sexual misconduct with an individual served during the period of time services are being rendered to the individual and a minimum of two years after the professional relationship has terminated.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Sexual Misconduct

3.2 An applicant or certified professional

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shall not engage in sexual misconduct with any family member or guardian of an individual served during the period of time services are being rendered to the consumer.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Sexual Misconduct

3.3 An applicant or certified professional

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shall not engage a supervisee in sexual misconduct during the period of time supervisory relationship exists.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Fraud-Related Conduct

4.1 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not present fraudulent documents when applying for certification, certification upgrades, or certification renewal.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Fraud-Related Conduct

4.2 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not prepare fraudulent certification documents for certification applicants.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Fraud-Related Conduct

4.3 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not use a title designation, credential or license, firm name, letterhead, publication, term, title, or document which states or implies an ability, relationship, or qualification that does not exist.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Fraud-Related Conduct

4.4 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not practice under a false name or under a name other than the name under which his or her certification or license is held.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Fraud-Related Conduct

4.5 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not prepare, present, or participate in activities related to fraudulent billing or benefit claim under any employee benefit program or insurance policy/program.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Fraud-Related Conduct

4.6 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not produce, publish, create, or partake in the creation of any false, fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading advertisement.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Exploitation of Consumer

5.1 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not develop, implement, or maintain exploitive relationships with current or past consumers.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Exploitation of Consumer

5.2 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not misappropriate property from a consumer.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Exploitation of Consumer

5.3 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not enter into a relationship with an individual which involves financial gain to the certified professional or a third-party resulting from the promotion or the sale of services unrelated to treatment.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Exploitation of Consumer

5.4 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not recommend to an individual any unnecessary, ineffective or unsafe device, treatment, procedure, product or service.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Exploitation of Consumer

5.5 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not solicit gifts or favors from individuals.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Exploitation of Consumer

5.6 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not offer, give, or receive commissions, rebates, or any other forms of remuneration for a referral.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Safety and Welfare

6.1 - When a condition of clear and imminent danger exists that an individual may inflict serious bodily harm on another person or persons, an applicant or certified professional

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shall, consistent with federal and state confidentiality laws, take reasonable steps to warn any likely victims of the individual’s potential behavior.

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FCB Code of Ethics

  1. Safety and Welfare

6.2 - When a condition of clear and imminent danger exists that an individual may inflict serious bodily self-harm, an applicant or certified professional

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shall, consistent with federal and state confidentiality laws, take reasonable steps to protect the individual served.

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FCB Code of Ethics

7 Records Management

7.1 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall not falsify, amend, knowingly make incorrect entries, or fail to make timely essential entries into the individual served record.

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FCB Code of Ethics

7 Records Management

7.2 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall follow all Federal and State regulations regarding consumer records.

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FCB Code of Ethics

7 Records Management

7.3 - An applicant or certified professional

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shall comply with all federal and state confidentiality laws.