psychotherapeutic services to individuals, couples, families and
groups for the purpose of treating such disorders.
"Practice of professional counseling." Includes, to the
extent compatible with a practitioner's education and
professional competence, all of the following:
(1) The application of principles and practices of
counseling, mental health and human development to evaluate
and facilitate human growth and adjustment throughout the
life span and to prevent and treat mental, emotional or
behavioral disorders and associated stresses which interfere
with mental health and normal human growth and development.
(2) The evaluation and assessment of normal and abnormal
mental, emotional, social, educational, vocational, family
and behavioral functioning throughout the life span;
individual, group, family counseling and psychotherapy;
crisis intervention, career counseling and educational and
vocational counseling; functional assessment of persons with
disabilities; and professional consulting.
(3) Professional counselors' utilization of verbal and
nonverbal approaches and specialization in the use of arts-
based therapeutic approaches, such as art, dance, music or
drama, to accomplish treatment objectives.
"Practice of social work." Offering to render or rendering a
service in which a special knowledge of social resources, human
personality and capabilities and therapeutic techniques is
directed at helping people to achieve adequate and productive
personal, interpersonal and social adjustments in their
individual lives, in their families and in their community or
holding oneself out to the public by any title or description of
services incorporating the term "social worker" or using any
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