POLISH KYNOTHERAPEUTIC SOCIETY                              
     
 
 
   
       
 
A CODE OF KYNOTHERAPIST’S ETHICS
 
     
 
§1
 
     
      An ethics of kynotherapist i san application of human-wide ethical norms, which are completed by demands connected with kynotherapy. General ethical norms oblige a kynotherapist to:
- obey human rights
- take care of therapeutic dog
- perform his/her duties conscientiously
- obey good manners
 
     
 
§2
 
     
      A kynotherapist’s work is a work with people who need rehabilitation – very often with children, it is a responsible job. That is why a kynotherapist should have:
- a friendly and rational attitude to rehabilitated people
- a professional knowledge
- a reliability
- a responsibility
- an honesty
- a personal culture
- a taktful behaviour
 
     
 
§3
 
     
      A kynotherapist builds his/her image as a person of public trust by everyday work and he/she takes care of image of kynotherapists’ group.  
     
 
§4
 
     
      1. A duty of every kynotherapist is to get a knowledge all the time and improves his/her skills. It is important that experienced kynotherapists help their younger colleagues and mould their ethical attitudes by their own examples.
    2. A kynotherapist, if it is possible, should disseminate his/her own observations, which are important for science and practice of kynotherapy. An objectivity and awareness that every statement has an influence on moulding kynotherapist’s image as a person of public trust are also very important.
 
     
 
§5
 
     
      1. A kynotherapist can not keep kynotherapeutic classes if he/she is drunk or took some other intoxicants.
    2. A kynotherapist should not keep classes in situations, which can violate his/her dignity, which lower a quality of executing actions and danger to people participating in classes or to a therapeutic dog.
    3. A kynoherapist should not allowed to assist him/her in kynotherapeutic classes people who do not have at least a training as a volunteer of kynotherapy. With the exception of parents/keepers of rehabilitated person.
    4. A kynotherapist supervises assistants and is responsible for their work entirely.
    5. An improper familiarity with people taking part in classes or with rehabilitated persons and assistants is unacceptable.
 
     
 
§6
 
     
      1. A kynotherapist is entitled to liberty of choice a methodology of classes; the methodology leads to getting a required effect of rehabilitation.
    2. A kynotherapist applies generally recognized and tested methodologies and exercises adjusted to rehabilitated person’s possibilities.
    3. In case of application new, insufficiently tested in practice methods, a kynotherapist should inform about this a rehabilitated person’s parents/keepers and get their agreement.
    4. A kynotherapist, in case of making him/her aware of making a mistake in his/her conduct, has to inform about this a rehabilitated person’s parents/keepers and take some actions to undo results of the mistake.
 
     
 
§7
 
     
      1. A kynotherapist and assisted people have to keep a trade secret. Only parents/keepers can absolve a kynotherapist from it entirely or partly or in case of danger a public health (f.ex. infectious diseases) or when law regulations need it.
    2. A kynotherapist can not excuse his/her behaviour being contradict good customs, loyalty to his/her superior or an interest of mother organization.
 
     
 
§8
 
     
      A kynotherapist has a duty to keep a specialist documentation.  
     
 
§9
 
     
      1. Kynotherapists have a duty to be: kind, reliable, objective, have to obey law rules and good manners, and between themselves they should be friendly and solid.
    2. A kynotherapist should not tell in public about unfavourable assessment of classes keeping by the other kynotherapist or discredit him/her in public in any way.
    3. Any notices about seen mistakes at colleague’s behaving or at violation of ethical principles, a kynotherapist tells directly to interested person. In the notices do not achieve any of the results, negative assessment about this kynotherapist’s work should be told leadership of his/her mother organization. If there is not a such organization, non-ethical behaviour can be condemned, without giving personal datas of culprit on websides connecting with kynotherapy.
    4. Condemning violations of ethical principles in kynotherapy, also a manifestation of incompetence, does not threaten rules of kynotherapists’ solidarity. It lets to keep a good image of kynotherapeutic group as people of public confidence.
 
     
 
§10
 
     
      1. A kynotherapist’s duty is to obey rules of honest competition at keeping a kynotherapeutic practice. Getting orders illegal with ethical rules and loyalty to friends is unacceptable.
    2. A kynotherapist can not impose his/her services or purchase a dog to a kynotherapy.
 
     
 
§11
 
     
      At unforeseen situations in this code, you should act according to good customs.  
     
 
 
     
 
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