N.D. Admin Code 75.5-02-01-03 - Definitions
As used in this title, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means
the North Dakota board of social work examiners.
2. "Client" means the individual, couple,
family, group, organization, or community that seeks or receives social work
services from an individual licensed social worker or an organization,
regardless of whether the licensed social worker or organization bills or
accepts or requests the payment of fees for the services.
3. "Clinical social work practice" means the
professional application of social work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics, and
the professional use of self to restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or
biopsychosocial functioning of individuals, couples, families, and groups. The
practice of clinical social work requires specialized clinical knowledge and
advanced clinical skills in the area of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of
mental, emotional, and behavioral disorder, conditions, and addictions.
Treatment methods include the provision of individual, marital, couple, family,
and group psychotherapy.
4.
"Clinical supervision for licensure" means an interactional professional
relationship between a clinical supervisor which meets the standards adopted by
the board and a social worker and which provides evaluation and direction over
the supervisee's practice of clinical social work in preparation for the social
worker's licensure as a licensed clinical social worker, in accordance with the
requirements adopted by the board, and promotes development of the social
worker's knowledge, skills, and abilities to engage in the practice of clinical
social work in an ethical and competent manner.
5. "Consultation" means an advisory
professional relationship between a social worker and an individual with
particular expertise, with the social worker legally and ethically maintaining
responsibility for all judgments and decisions regarding service to the
client.
6. "Counseling" means a
method used by a social worker to assist an individual, couple, family, or
group in learning how to solve problems and make decisions about personal,
health, social, educational, vocational, financial, and other interpersonal
concerns.
7. "Electronic social
work services" means the use of a computer, including the internet, social
media, online chat, text, and electronic mail, or other electronic means, such
as a wireless communications device, landline telephone, or video technology,
to provide information to the public, deliver social work services to a client,
communicate with a client, manage confidential information and case records,
store and access information about clients, and arrange payment for
professional services.
8.
"Face-to-face supervision" means a direct, interactive, live exchange, either
in person, by telephone, or by audio or audiovisual electronic device in either
individual or group supervision.
9.
"Group supervision" means one supervisor and more than one supervisee,
including health professionals in related professions. Group supervision is
facilitated by the supervisor and involves an exchange among all group members.
The size of the group shall be limited to seven, including the
supervisor.
10. "Individual
supervision" means one supervisor and one supervisee.
11. "Licensed baccalaureate social worker"
means an individual licensed under this chapter to practice baccalaureate
social work.
12. "Licensed clinical
social worker" means an individual licensed under this chapter to practice
clinical social work.
13. "Licensed
master social worker" means an individual licensed under this chapter to
practice masters social work.
14.
"Private practice of social work" means the independent practice of social work
by a licensee who is practicing within that licensee's scope of practice, and
who is self-employed on a full-time or part-time basis and is responsible for
that independent practice. Consultation services provided to an organization or
an agency are not considered to be the private practice of social
work.
15. "Psychotherapy" means the
use of treatment methods utilizing a specialized, formal interaction between a
licensed clinical social worker and an individual, couple, family, or group in
which a therapeutic relationship is established, maintained, and sustained to
understand unconscious processes; intrapersonal, interpersonal, and
psychosocial dynamics; and the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental,
emotional, and behavioral disorders, conditions, or addictions.
16. "Social work case management" means a
method to plan, provide, evaluate, and monitor services by a licensed social
worker from a variety of resources on behalf of and in collaboration with a
client.
17. "Social work practice"
means the application of social work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics, and
the professional use of self to restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or
biopsychosocial functioning of individuals, couples, families, groups,
organizations, and communities. The scope of practice for licensees of the
board consists of the following:
a. The
practice of baccalaureate social work, which includes the application of social
work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics, and the professional use of self to
restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or biopsychosocial functioning of
individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
Baccalaureate social work is generalist practice that includes assessment,
planning, implementation, intervention, evaluation, research, social work case
management, information and referral, counseling, supervision, consultation,
education, advocacy, community organization, and the development,
implementation, and administration of policies, programs, and
activities.
b. The practice of
masters social work, which includes, in addition to the practice of
baccalaureate social work, the application of specialized knowledge and
advanced practice skills in the areas of assessment, treatment planning,
implementation, intervention, evaluation, social work case management
information and referral, counseling, supervision, consultation, education,
research, advocacy, community organization, and the development,
implementation, and administration of policies, programs, and activities. Under
the supervision of a licensed clinical social worker, the practice of master's
social work may include the practices reserved to licensed clinical social
workers.
c. The practice of
clinical social work, which includes, in addition to the practice of
baccalaureate social work and the practice of masters social work, the
application of specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in
the areas of assessment; treatment planning; implementation and evaluation;
social work case management information and referral; counseling; supervision;
consultation; education; research; advocacy; community organization; the
development, implementation, intervention, and administration of policies,
programs, and activities; and the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional,
and behavioral disorders, conditions, and addictions. Treatment methods include
the provision of individual, marital, couple, family, and group counseling and
psychotherapy. The practice of clinical social work may include the provision
of clinical supervision.
Notes
General Authority: NDCC 43-41-09
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-41-04
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