§ 4082. Definitions
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Board” means the Board of Allied Mental Health Practitioners established under section 3262a of this title.
(2) “Disciplinary action” includes any action taken by the Board against a person who
is entered on the Roster or who applies for entry on the Roster, premised on a finding
of unprofessional conduct. It includes all sanctions of any kind, such as refusal
to enter a person on the Roster or to renew a Roster entry, suspension or revocation
of the person’s right to be entered on the Roster, issuing warnings, limitations on
a person’s right to practice, and other similar sanctions.
(3) “Psychotherapist who is nonlicensed and noncertified” means a person who practices
psychotherapy and is neither a licensed psychologist, clinical social worker, or mental
health counselor, nor a certified marriage and family therapist or a psychoanalyst.
(4) “Psychotherapy” means the provision of treatment, diagnosis, evaluation, or counseling
services to individuals or groups, for a consideration, for the purpose of alleviating
mental disorders. “Psychotherapy” involves the application of therapeutic techniques
to understand unconscious or conscious motivation, resolve emotional, relationship,
or attitudinal conflicts, or modify behavior that interferes with effective emotional,
social, or mental functioning. “Psychotherapy” follows a systematic procedure of psychotherapeutic
intervention that takes place on a regular basis over a period of time, or, in the
case of evaluation and brief psychotherapies, in a single or limited number of interventions.
If a person is employed by or under contract with the Agency of Human Services, this
definition does not apply to persons with less than a master’s degree; to persons
providing life skills training or instruction, such as learning to make friends, to
handle social situations, to do laundry, and to develop community awareness; or interactions
of employees or contracted individuals with clients whose job description or contract
specifications do not specifically mention “psychotherapy” as a job responsibility
or duty.
(5) “Roster” means the list of psychotherapists who are nonlicensed and noncertified that
is maintained by the Office of Professional Regulation in the Office of the Secretary
of State. (Added 1993, No. 222 (Adj. Sess.), § 17; amended 1997, No. 40, § 66; 1997, No. 145 (Adj. Sess.), § 26; 2005, No. 27, § 98.)