Ethical Codes

The Board of Allied Mental Health and Human Services Professions adopts as its official guides the ethical codes and standards of conduct listed in 262 CMR 8.01(1) through (6), except as such codes deviate in any way from the provisions of 262 CMR or M.G.L. c. 112, §§ 163 through 172: (1) For Licensed Mental Health Counselors and Licensed Supervised Mental Health Counselors: (a) American Counseling Association Code of Ethics; and (b) American Mental Health Counselors Association Code of Ethics; (2) For Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: Code of Ethics of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapists; (3) For Licensed Rehabilitation Counselors: (a) Code of Professional Ethics for Rehabilitation Counselors of the Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification; and (b) Certification of Disability Management Specialists Commission Code of Professional Conduct; (4) For Licensed Educational Psychologists: Principles for Professional Ethics of the National Association of School Psychologists; and (5) For Licensed Applied Behavior Analysts and Licensed Assistant Applied Behavior Analysts: The Ethics Code for Behavior Analysts of the Behavior Analyst Certification Board.