Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice

Value 5: Preserving Integrity in Professional Practice


20 Sexual misconduct includes any sexualized conduct engaged in by a Social Worker with a current service user or vulnerable former service user. See glossary for more detailed definition of sexualized conduct, sexual misconduct, and sexual abuse.

21 For the purposes of these sexual misconduct standards, “service user” refers to current, former, and vulnerable former service users (see subsequent footnotes) and also includes a parent, guardian, spouse, partner, child, or any substitute decision maker of the individual receiving social work services. Unless stated otherwise it also includes a student being supervised by a Registered Social Worker, or a Social Worker Candidate being mentored by a Registered Social Worker.

22 Definitions of each are found in the Glossary under “Service User”.

23 In Nova Scotia, providing clinical services in a private practice requires an additional level of registration.

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