SECTION 450:50-7-1. Responsibility and scope of practice

(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 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.

(d)   Certified Behavioral Health Case Managers may not practice any of the following professions or use the following titles unless also licensed or accredited by the appropriate authority: physician, psychologist, clinical social worker, professional counselor, marital and family therapist, behavioral practitioner or alcohol and drug counselor.

(e)   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.

(f)   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.

(g)   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.

(h)   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.

[Source: 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 1420, eff 7-1-13]