25-23.6-1-7. "Practice of marriage and family therapy"

IN Code § 25-23.6-1-7 (2019) (N/A)

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Sec. 7. "Practice of marriage and family therapy" means a specialty that:

(1) uses an applied understanding of the dynamics of marital, relational, and family systems, and individual psychodynamics;

(2) uses counseling and psychotherapeutic techniques;

(3) evaluates and treats mental and emotional conditions, resolves intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict, and changes perceptions, attitudes, and behavior, all within the context of family, marital, and relational systems, including the use of accepted evaluation 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;

(4) uses individual, group, couple, sexual, family, and divorce therapy; and

(5) uses appraisal instruments that evaluate individual, marital, relational, communicational, parent and child, and family functioning that the marriage and family therapist is qualified to employ by virtue of the counselor's education, training, and experience.

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.23.

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