148E.215 RESPONSIBILITIES TO CLIENTS.
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148E.215 RESPONSIBILITIES TO CLIENTS.
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Subdivision 1. Responsibility to clients.
A social worker's primary professional responsibility is to the client. A social worker must respect the client's interests, including the interest in self-determination, except when required to do otherwise by law.
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Subd. 2. Nondiscrimination.
A social worker must not discriminate against a client, intern, student, or supervisee or in providing services to a client, intern, or supervisee on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, race, color, national origin, religion, illness, disability, political affiliation, or social or economic status.
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Subd. 3. Research.
When undertaking research activities, a social worker must use accepted protocols for the protection of human subjects, including
(1)establishing appropriate safeguards to protect the subject's vulnerability, and
(2)obtaining the subjects' informed consent.