§ 3016. Unprofessional conduct
Unprofessional conduct means the conduct listed in this section and in 3 V.S.A. § 129a:
(1) Failing to make available, upon written request of a person using psychological services
to succeeding health care professionals or institutions, copies of that person’s records
in the possession or under the control of the licensee.
(2) Failing to use a complete title in professional activity.
(3) Conduct that evidences moral unfitness to practice psychology.
(4) Engaging in any sexual conduct with a client, or with the immediate family member
of a client, with whom the licensee has had a professional relationship within the
previous two years.
(5) Harassing, intimidating, or abusing a client or patient.
(6) Entering into an additional relationship with a client, supervisee, research participant,
or student that might impair the psychologist’s objectivity or otherwise interfere
with the psychologist’s professional obligations.
(7) Practicing outside or beyond a psychologist’s area of training or competence without
appropriate supervision.
(8) In the course of practice, failure to use and exercise that degree of care, skill,
and proficiency that is commonly exercised by the ordinary skillful, careful, and
prudent psychologist engaged in similar practice under the same or similar conditions,
whether or not actual injury to a client or patient has occurred.
(9) Conduct that violates the “Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct”
of the American Psychological Association, effective December 1, 1992, or its successor
principles and code.
(10) Conduct that violates the “ASPPB Code of Conduct-1990” of the Association of State
and Provincial Psychology Boards, or its successor code.
(11) Use of conversion therapy as defined in 18 V.S.A. § 8351 on a client younger than 18 years of age. (Added 1975, No. 228 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; amended 1981, No. 241 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 1993, No. 98, § 7; 1993, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 3; 1997, No. 145 (Adj. Sess.), § 50; 1999, No. 52, § 26; 1999, No. 133 (Adj. Sess.), § 24; 2013, No. 27, § 34; 2015, No. 138 (Adj. Sess.), § 5.)