While the attached excerpts from the NSRP Standards of Professional Conduct do not explicitly mention bartering, this is how NSRP has approached the issue in the past. We are sharing the whole excerpt, but the key points below are likely most relevant:Principle 6nA registrant shall reach an agreement with an individual, group or organization concerning the psychological services to be provided, the fees to be charged and the billing arrangements prior to providing service.
6.1 A registrant sets fees based on the amount of time spent and complexity of the services rendered and does not base fees on the basis of advantage or clinically significant benefits accruing to the individual receiving services.
Principle 9nA registrant does not seek special benefit or advantage from relations with a client.
9.6 A registrant shall not use information obtained during the provision of psychological services to directly or indirectly acquire advantage over or exploit a client or to improperly acquire a benefit.
9.7 A registrant shall not persuade or influence a client to make gifts or contributions.
9.8 A registrant shall not accept a gift of more than token value.
NSRP does not prohibit master’s level candidate registrants from supervising others, e.g., practicum students. Like all candidates, NSRP always cautions those providing supervision to individuals who may not be experienced/regulated professionals. Moreover it would be important that any registrant consider whether they would be comfortable taking on such a role.
Here is a link to the NSRP publication on supervision scenarios which you may find useful to reference:
https://www.ns-rp.ca/downloads/Supervision_Scenarios.pdf
This supervision may be acceptable for the University program and to the respective regulatory body that the applicant ultimately applies to. However, NSRP does not accept graduates of this M.Ed. program, so it would be helpful for the supervisee to be aware that by receiving practicum supervision from a registrant of the NSRP they are not being trained to become a provider of psychological services. Rather we would expect such students in this program likely plan to become counselling therapists.
NSRP supervision is limited to what issues are raised in candidate register supervision, so we would not generally see your supervision of Georgina extending to the services provided by the practicum supervisee. Additionally, as you’ll note in the above referenced publication, NSRP expects that another professional would also likely be involved with the supervision of the practicum student who would have knowledge of their future regulated profession and scope (counselling therapist).
