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:

1. A. An assessment of the client;
2. B. A written rationale for the use of the treatment modality for the client; and

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

   1. (1) The risks and benefits of the treatment modality;
   2. (2) The objective or objectives and intended outcome or outcomes of the proposed treatment;
   3. (3) Available alternative interventions; and
   4. (4) A description of the physical contact which may be reasonably anticipated by the client in the course of the proposed treatment.

Authority: Health Occupations Article, §§1-212, 20-205, and 20-213, Annotated Code of Maryland

Effective date:

Regulations .01—.02 adopted as an emergency provision effective January 7, 2008 (35:9 Md. R. 894); adopted permanently effective April 7, 2008 (35:7 Md. R. 749)

Chapter revised and recodified from COMAR 10.57.04 to COMAR 10.57.05 effective April 19, 2010 (37:8 Md. R. 617)

Regulation .04 amended effective October 13, 2025 (52:20 Md. R. 1002)