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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" citation="COMAR 10.57.05.05" title_num="10" subtitle_num="57" chapter_num="05" heading="Physical Contact.">
  <text>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:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>An assessment of the client;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>A written rationale for the use of the treatment modality for the client; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>A copy of the informed consent, signed and dated by the client and the licensed or certified health care professional, which addresses:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The risks and benefits of the treatment modality;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The objective or objectives and intended outcome or outcomes of the proposed treatment;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Available alternative interventions; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>A description of the physical contact which may be reasonably anticipated by the client in the course of the proposed treatment.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>