18 articles
Code of ethics of the sophrologist
of good practices
Article 1: The sophrologist practitioner commits himself to be in the service of the individual and to exercise his mission in the respect of the human life, the person and his dignity.
person and its dignity.
Article 2: The sophrologist practitioner commits himself in all circumstances to respect the principles of morality, probity and devotion
indispensable to the exercise of its function.
Article 3: The practitioner sophrologist commits himself strictly respecting the professional secrecy, instituted in the interest of his customer. The secrecy covers
all that came to the knowledge of the sophrologist in the exercise of its profession, i.e. not only what was entrusted to him, but
also what it saw, heard or understood.
Article 4: The practitioner sophrologist is committed protecting against any indiscretion the documents of anamnesis concerning the people whom it accompanies or to accompany and this whatever the
accompany or to accompany and this whatever the contents of these documents, it is the same of the information of which it can be the
holder. The sophrologist must make sure, when he uses his experience or his documents for publication or teaching purposes, that
the identification of the people is not possible. Failing that, their agreement must be obtained.
Article 5: The sophrologist practitioner commits himself to respect the right that any person has to choose freely his sophrologist. He must
facilitate the exercise of this right in the event of request of the subject customer/patient.
Article 6: The sophrologist practitioner is committed listening, accompanying with the same conscience all the people whatever their
their origin, their morals and their family situation, their belonging or not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation or a determined religion, their handicap or their state of
their handicap or their state of health, their reputation or the feelings which he can feel with regard to them.
Article 7: The sophrologist practitioner is committed to avoid any propaganda or religious or ideological proselytizing within his office or
places of intervention. The sophrologist practitioner commits himself to exclude and to track down any sectarian drift of which he could be witness.
Article 8: The sophrologist practitioner commits himself never to leave a correct and attentive attitude towards the accompanied person.
Article 9: The practitioner sophrologist makes a commitment if he is brought to accompany a person deprived of freedom or to him directly or indirectly,
never to encourage or support an attack on the physical or mental integrity of this person or his dignity.
Article 10: The sophrologist practitioner commits himself to determine his remuneration with tact and measure and to claim it only on the occasion of sessions
actually carried out.
Article 11 : The sophrologist undertakes to respond to any request for prior information and explanation on its rates.
Article 12 : The sophrologist undertakes to propose the contact of different colleagues as soon as the circumstances require it. If he does not believe
to give his approval to the choice of the subject, he can recuse himself and can also advise to resort to another consultant, as he must do it in the absence of choice expressed by the person.
in the absence of a choice expressed by the person.
Article 13: In the interest of the persons, the sophrologist practitioner commits himself to maintain good relations with the professions of health which the person
person consults in parallel.
Article 14: The exercise of sophrology is personal, each practitioner sophrologist is responsible for his decisions and his acts.
Article 15: The sophrologist practitioner is committed to regularly update its knowledge and its competences in order to answer the needs for the people and to mitigate the evolutions of the
people and to mitigate with the evolutions of sophrology.
Article 16: The practitioner sophrologist must have, with the place of its professional exercise, of a suitable installation, of adequate buildings to
allow the respect of the professional secrecy and of sufficient technical means in connection with the nature of the acts.
Article 17: The sophrologist practitioner commits himself not to substitute himself for a health professional and not to mislead the subject on the
the nature and the limits of the acts which it lavishes, not to lavish any diagnosis nor medical prescriptions reserved for the only professionals of
health professionals. The sophrologist practitioner refrains from interfering with current medical treatments.
Article 18: The sophrologist practitioner commits himself to respect his professional ethics and the confidentiality of what is said, heard or understood,
when it intervenes under the authority of a company or an organization.