Section 514-8-A-10 - Professional RepresentationThe counselor adheres to professional standards when making known his or her availability for professional services, including making counseling services available in private settings. The counselor must provide information that accurately informs the public of the professional services, expertise, and techniques available, and the highest degree earned from an accredited institution which is in the counseling field.
Misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1. Inaccurately representing the counselor's professional competence, education, training, experience or level of licensure, or knowingly failing to correct any misrepresentations made by others;2. Providing information that contains false, inaccurate, misleading, partial, out-of-context, or otherwise deceptive statements about the licensee's or registrant's professional services, or knowingly failing to correct inaccurate information provided by others;3. Making claims or guarantees which promise more than the licensee or registrant can realistically provide; and4. Failing to assure that advertisements and publications, whether in directories, announcement cards, newspapers, or on radio or television, are formulated to convey information that is necessary for the public to make an appropriate selection.02-514 C.M.R. ch. 8, § A-10