# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 57 — Board for the Certification of Residential Child Care Program Professionals

### Chapter 05 — Code of Ethics

#### Regulation .05 Physical Contact.

*COMAR 10.57.05.05*

The certified residential child care program administrator or certified residential child and youth care practitioner engaging in physical contact with a client as an accepted component of a professionally recognized, nontraditional treatment modality shall have documented in the client's record by a licensed or certified health care professional:

A. An assessment of the client;

B. A written rationale for the use of the treatment modality for the client; and

C. A copy of the informed consent, signed and dated by the client and the licensed or certified health care professional, which addresses:

  (1) The risks and benefits of the treatment modality;

  (2) The objective or objectives and intended outcome or outcomes of the proposed treatment;

  (3) Available alternative interventions; and

  (4) A description of the physical contact which may be reasonably anticipated by the client in the course of the proposed treatment.