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Code of Ethics and Practice
Code of Ethics and Practice National College of Hypnosis
and Psychotherapy and National Society of Hypnosis and
Psychotherapy
Ethical Principles and Code of Professional Conduct
Adapted with permission from the UKCP document ©2009
Introduction
The purpose of the Ethical Principles and Code of Professional
Conduct is to define generic ethical principles which NCHP/NSHP
students/registrants commit to and maintain.
For clarity and ease of expression, the third person plural
pronoun is used as non-gendered pronoun for "practitioner": so they
is used for "she/he" and "their" for "her/his". This Ethical
Principles and Code of Professional Conduct cannot cover every
potential ethical, conduct or competence related concern. NSHP
Members must therefore depend on their own thoughtful
evaluation of specific principles and the spirit expressed in these
statements. The practitioner commits to engage with the challenge
of striving for ethical practice and conduct, even when doing so
involves making difficult decisions or acting courageously.
General Ethical Principles
1. Best interests of clients
1.1 The practitioner takes responsibility for respecting their
client's best interests when providing their services.
1.2 The practitioner undertakes to treat their clients with
respect.
1.3 The practitioner undertakes not to abuse or exploit the
relationship they have with their clients, current or past, for any
purpose, including the practitioner's sexual, emotional or
financial gain.
1.4 The practitioner undertakes not to enter into a sexual
relationship with a client.
1.5 Practitioners are required to carefully consider possible
implications of entering into dual or multiple relationships and
make every effort to avoid entering into relationships that risks
confusing an existing relationship and may impact adversely on a
client. For example, a dual or multiple relationships could be a
social or commercial relationship between the practitioner and
client, or a supervisory relationship which runs alongside the
therapeutic one. When dual or multiple relationships are
unavoidable, for example in small communities, practitioners take
responsibility to clarify and manage boundaries and confidentiality
of the therapeutic relationship.
1.6 The practitioner undertakes to take into account the length
of therapy and time lapsed since therapy and pay great attention to
exercise reasonable care before entering into any personal or
business relationships with former clients. Should the relationship
prove to be detrimental to the former client, the practitioner may
be called to account to the charge of a misuse of their former
position as the former client's practitioner.
1.7 The practitioner undertakes to respect their client's
autonomy.
1.8 The practitioner undertakes not to harm or collude in the
harming of their client or a client of others.
1.9 The practitioner undertakes to know and understand their
legal responsibilities concerning the rights of children and
vulnerable adults and to take appropriate action should the
practitioner consider a child or vulnerable adult is at risk of
harm.
1.10 The practitioner recognises that their behaviour outside
their professional life may have an effect on the relationship with
their clients and takes responsibility for working with these
potential negative or positive effects to the benefit of the
client.
2. Diversity and Equality
2.1 The practitioner undertakes to actively consider issues of
diversity and equalities as these affect all aspects of their work.
The practitioner accepts no one is immune from the experience of
prejudice and acknowledges the need for a continuing process of
self-enquiry and professional development.
2.2 The practitioner undertakes not to allow prejudice about a
client's sex, age, colour, race, disability, sexuality, social,
economic or immigration status, lifestyle, religious or cultural
beliefs to adversely affect the way they relate to the client.
2.3 The practitioner undertakes not to engage in any behaviour
that is abusive or detrimental to any client or colleague based on
the above factors.
3. Confidentiality
3.1 The practitioner commits to respect, protect and preserve
the confidentiality of their clients. The practitioner undertakes
to notify their clients, when appropriate or on request that there
are legal and ethical limits of that confidentiality and
circumstances under which the practitioner might
disclose confidential information to a third party.
3.2 The practitioner commits to protect sensitive and personally
identifiable information obtained from the course of their work as
a practitioner.
3.3 Should the practitioner be required by law to serve in
judicial or administrative proceedings, they commit to getting
clarification at the outset of the potential impacts this could
have on their commitment of confidentiality to any client. In such
a situation the practitioner commits to maintaining this
clarification as the situation proceeds and to seek legal and
ethical advice as appropriate.
3.4 The practitioner commits to safeguard the welfare and
anonymity of clients when any form of publication of clinical
material is being considered and to always obtain their client's
verifiable consent in any case where the welfare or anonymity of a
client may be compromised. This includes situations where a client
or former client might recognise themselves in case material
despite the changing of names or actual circumstances.
4. Conduct
4.1 The practitioner acknowledges that their professional and
personal conduct may have both positive and negative effects on the
way they are experienced by a client. The practitioner undertakes,
in a continuing process, to critically examine the impact these
effects may have on the psychotherapeutic relationship with any
client, placing a priority on preserving the client's
psychotherapeutic best interests.
4.2 The practitioner agrees to inform NCHP/NSHP if they are:
a. Convicted of a criminal offence, receive a conditional
discharge for an offence, or accept a police caution;
b. Disciplined by any professional body or membership organisation
responsible for regulating or licensing a health or social-care
profession; or
c. Suspended or placed under a practice restriction by an employer
or similar organisation because of concerns relating to the
practice of psychotherapy, competence or health.
4.3 Subject to the rules of confidentiality and other code of
ethics adhered to by the practitioner, the practitioner commits to
co-operating with any lawful investigation or inquiry relating to
their capacity to appropriately carry out their practice. Good
practice would indicate that the practitioner should consult with a
colleague/member of their Ethics Committee, or seek legal advice
with request to any request for information by anyone involved in a
legal case even where the client has given their consent.
4.4 If a practitioner is convicted of a criminal offence,
receives a conditional discharge for an offence, or accepts a
police caution NCHP/NSHP will consider any implications their
conviction, conditional discharge, or in exceptional cases police
caution, may have for their professional practice. NCHP/NSHP will
consider and assess potential risk posed to clients or for public
confidence in the register and may reject their application for
registration or removal of name from its register on such
grounds.
5. Professional knowledge, skills and experience
5.1 The practitioner agrees to disclose their qualifications to
clients and NCHP/NSHP when requested and commits to not claiming or
implying qualifications that they do not have.
5.2 The practitioners commits to ensure that the use of title
such as "Doctor/Dr" and post nominal initials after a name in all
published materials are accurate; indicate whether it is a medical
or academic qualification; and reasonably informs the public of
their relevance to the practise of psychotherapy.
5.3 The practitioner commits to recognise the boundaries and
limitations of their expertise and techniques and to take the
necessary steps to maintain their ability to practice
competently.
5.4 If it becomes clear that a case is beyond a practitioner's
scope of practice, the practitioner commits to inform the client
and where appropriate offer an alternative practitioner or other
professional where requested.
5.5 The practitioner commits to adhering to the NCHP/NSHP
policies on standards of education, training and practise.
5.6 The practitioner commits to an on-going process of
professional and personal enquiry and challenge, commonly referred
to as "Continuing Professional Development" The practitioner
commits to adhering to the Continuing Professional Development
policies held by NCHP/NSHP.
5.7 The practitioner accepts responsibility to ensure that they
are competent and have sufficient supervisory arrangements and
other necessary support to enable them to meet their
psychotherapeutic obligations to any client. This includes the
responsibility of ensuring the very careful consideration of how
best to refer a client to another practitioner or professional
should it become clear that this would be in the client's best
interest.
6. Communication
6.1 The practitioner agrees to explain at the outset to a client
or prospective client their terms, fees and conditions; and on
request, clarify other related questions such as likely length of
therapy, methods of practice to be utilised, referral or
termination processes.
6.2 The practitioner agrees to notify clients of any other codes
of ethics & practise to which they subscribe, including the
availability of the complaints procedure.
7. Obtaining consent
7.1 The practitioner undertakes to explain to the client, to the
extent applicable to their modality and the client's capacity: the
practitioner's clinical method(s) of working and the client's
choice to participate in any therapeutic interventions suggested by
the practitioner including any commitments the practitioner makes
to the client and any commitments the practitioner requires of the
client.
7.2 The practitioner undertakes not to intentionally mislead a
client concerning the type or nature of the services provided.
7.3 The practitioner commits to clarify with clients the nature,
purpose and conditions of any research in which the clients are to
be involved and to ensure that informed and verifiable consent is
given before commencement of the therapy and research.
8. Records
8.1 The practitioner agrees to keep such records as are
necessary to properly carry out the type of psychotherapy
offered.
8.2 The practitioner commits to store and dispose any personally
identifiable records or data securely in order to protect the
client's confidentiality.
9. Physical or Mental Health
9.1 The practitioner accepts an ongoing responsibility to ensure
that they do not work with clients if they are not able to do so
for physical or mental health reasons, or when impaired by the
effects of drugs, alcohol or medication.
9.2 The practitioner accepts a responsibility to take
appropriate action should their ability to meet their obligations
to their clients be compromised by their physical or mental
health.
9.3 The practitioner commits to carefully consider how, in the
event of their sudden unavailability this can be most appropriately
communicated to their clients. This will also include careful
consideration of how a client might be informed of a practitioner's
death or illness and, where appropriate, supported to deal with
such a situation.
10. Professional Integrity
10.1 The practitioner commits to report potential breaches of
this Ethical Principles and Code of Professional Conduct by
themselves or by other practitioners to the relevant national
member organisation or NCHP/NSHP.
11. Advertising
11.1 The practitioner commits to ensuring that any advertising
or promoting they undertake will not be misleading, false, unfair
or exaggerated.
11.2 The practitioner commits to ensure that if they are
involved in advertising or promoting any particular therapy,
product or service, this is done in an accurate and responsible
way.
11.3 The practitioner undertakes not to make or support
unjustifiable statements relating to particular therapies or
therapists.
12. Indemnity Insurance
12.1 The practitioner commits to ensuring that their
professional work is adequatelycovered by appropriate indemnity
insurance or by their employer's indemnity arrangements.
13. Complaints
13.1 The practitioner accepts the responsibility for maintaining
reasonable awareness and a level of understanding regarding
complaints procedures, relevant laws and statutory responsibilities
that are applicable to their practice.
13.2 The practitioner accepts a responsibility to act against
colluding with practice harmful to clients including that carried
out by other professionals and colleagues. This should include,
where appropriate, activating procedures for addressing ethical
concerns including formal complaints if necessary.
Advertising
The practitioner undertakes not to include testimonials from
clients in any advertising material.
CPD
UKCP registrants undertake to adhere to CPD requirements of
UKCP.
Other HI registrants are required to be able to demonstrate having
undertaken a minimum of 15 hours of Continuing Professional
Development per annum. CPD activities can include:
" Attendance at relevant conferences
" Further relevant training (live, online or distance
learning)
" Participation in professional organizations
" Research or writing on relevant topics
In exceptional circumstances other activities such as journalled
reading or watching of DVDs may be considered. Such circumstances
may include illness, caring for a family member, having a baby.
If in doubt as to the validity of your CPD activities please
check with the office in advance and keep the email of
approval.
Supervision
UKCP registrants undertake to adhere to supervision requirements
of UKCP.
All registrants are required to have supervision or peer support
dependent on their level of experience:
" For the first three years/200 hours in practice (whichever is
the longer) practitioners are required to be in a supervisionary
relationship with a qualified supervisor or a registered UKCP
psychotherapist. Part of the training to become a qualified
supervisor involves a recognition of the ethical requirement to
ensure that one's supervisees have adequate supervision. On this
basis NSHP does not specify the amount or frequency of supervision
required as if this is inadequate the supervisor is open to
disciplinary processes for unethical practice.
" After three years/200 hours in practice (whichever is longer)
practitioners are required to either be in a supervisionary
relationship (as above) or be an active member of a peer support
relationship. NSHP expects this relationship to provide adequate
guidance and support for client work, recognizing its potential to
have a negative psychological impact on the practitioner and also
recognizing the potential danger of a practitioner becoming stale
or to have too narrow a focus on their work.
Supervisors/peer supporters may be required, at any time, to
produce a report on the participation of the supervisee, and the
supervisee's standing as a registrant in good standing may be
affected by this report.
Shaun Brookhouse has been practising hypnotherapy
professionally since 1989. Call 0161 881 1677 if you have
any questions or email enquiries@hypno-manchester.co.uk
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