{"data":{"id":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-5817","jurisdiction":"us-ks","citation":"K.S.A. 65-5817","heading":"Disclosures to client at beginning of client-therapist relationship; documentation.","body":"A licensee under the professional counselors licensure act, at the beginning of a client-therapist relationship, shall inform the client of the level of such licensee's training and the title or titles and license or licenses of such licensee. As a part of such obligation, such licensee shall disclose whether such licensee has a master's degree or a doctoral degree. If such licensee has a doctoral degree, such licensee shall disclose whether or not such doctoral degree is a doctor of medicine degree or some other doctoral degree. If such licensee does not have a medical doctor's degree, such licensee shall disclose that the licensee is not authorized to practice medicine and surgery and is not authorized to prescribe drugs. As a part of such disclosure, such licensee shall advise the client that certain mental disorders can have medical or biological origins, and that the client should consult with a physician. Documentation of such disclosures to a client shall be made in the client's record.","path":["Chapter 65.—PUBLIC HEALTH","Article 58.—PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS"],"source_url":"https://www.ksrevisor.gov/statutes/chapters/ch65/065_058_0017.html","current_through":"2025 legislative session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-10-15T06:24:46Z","sha256":"55577c9d6240e5141a8a3f1b0cc0f1c8481490377a207e18fc97c195004a483b","source_id":"us-ks","stale":false,"prev":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-5816","next":"us-ks/k.s.a.-65-5818"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}