(a) Limitations.

1. (1) Counselors, through ongoing evaluation and appraisal, are aware of the academic and personal limitations of students and supervisees that might impede performance.
2. (2) Counselors assist students and supervisees in securing remedial assistance when needed and dismiss from the training program supervisees who are unable to provide competent service due to academic or personal limitations.
3. (3) Counselors seek professional consultation and document their decision to dismiss or refer students or supervisees for assistance.

4. (4) Counselors assure that students and supervisees have recourse to:

   1. (A) Address decisions made;
   2. (B) Require them to seek assistance; or
   3. (C) Dismiss them.

(b) Self-growth experiences.

1. (1) Counselors use professional judgment when designing training experiences conducted by the counselors themselves that require student and supervisee self-growth or self-disclosure.
2. (2) Safeguards are provided so that students and supervisees are aware of the ramifications their self-disclosure may have on counselors whose primary role as teacher, trainer, or supervisor requires an ethical obligation to the profession.
3. (3) Evaluative components of experiential training experiences explicitly delineate predetermined academic standards that are separate and not dependent on the student’s level of self-disclosure.
4. (4) See 17 CAR § 390-106.

(c) Counseling for students and supervisees.

1. (1) If students or supervisees request counseling, supervisors or counselor educators provide them with acceptable referrals.
2. (2) Supervisors or counselor educators do not serve as counselor to students or supervisees over whom they hold administrative, teaching, or evaluative roles unless this is a brief role associated with a training experience.
3. (3) See 17 CAR § 390-106(b).

(d) Clients of students and supervisees.

1. (1) Counselors make every effort to ensure that the clients at field placements are aware of the services rendered and the qualifications of the students and supervisees rendering those services.
2. (2) Clients receive professional disclosure information and are informed of the limits of confidentiality.
3. (3) Client permission is obtained in order for the students and supervisees to use any information concerning the counseling relationship in the training process.
4. (4) See 17 CAR § 390-201(e).

(e) Standards for students and supervisees.

1. (1) Students and supervisees preparing to become counselors adhere to this part and the Standards of Practice, 17 CAR pt. 391.
2. (2) Students and supervisees have the same obligations to clients as those required of counselors.
3. (3) See 17 CAR § 390-801.