25-23.6-1-6. "Practice of clinical social work"

IN Code § 25-23.6-1-6 (2019) (N/A)

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Sec. 6. (a) "Practice of clinical social work" means professional services that are designed to help individuals, marriages, couples, families, groups, and communities to enhance or restore their capacity for functioning by:

(1) assisting in the obtaining or improving of tangible social and health services;

(2) providing psychosocial evaluations using accepted classifications, including classifications from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) as amended and supplemented, but only to the extent of the counselor's education, training, experience, and scope of practice as established by this article;

(3) using appraisal instruments as an aid in treatment planning that the clinical social worker is qualified to employ by virtue of the counselor's education, training, and experience; and

(4) counseling and psychotherapeutic techniques, casework social work advocacy, and treatment in a variety of settings that include mental and physical health facilities, child and family service agencies, or private practice.

(b) The term does not include diagnosis (as defined in IC 25-22.5-1-1.1(c)).

As added by P.L.186-1990, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.147-1997, SEC.22.

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