Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 119 – Counseling Professionals
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- Access: means to gain logical entry into, instruct, communicate with, store data in or retrieve data from any computer resource. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- administration of criminal justice: means activities relating to the investigation of all or specific crimes and the prosecution of offenders. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Assessment: means selecting, administering and interpreting instruments designed to assess personal, interpersonal and group characteristics. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- Board: means the Board of Counseling Professionals Licensure, established in section 13852. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- Clinical professional counselor: means a professional counselor who renders or offers to render for a fee, monetary or otherwise, to individuals, families, groups, organizations or the general public, a counseling service involving the application of the principles and procedures of counseling to assess and treat intrapersonal and interpersonal problems and other dysfunctional behaviors and to assist in the overall development and adjustment of those served. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- Commissioner: means the Commissioner of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- Computer: means an electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical or other high-speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic or storage functions and includes any data storage device or communications facility directly related to or operating in conjunction with the device. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Computer information: means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions that are confidential or proprietary, are being prepared or have been prepared from an organized set of data and are located in computer memory or on magnetic, optical or mechanical media transferable directly to or useable directly by a computer as a source of data or instructions. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Computer network: means a combination of one or more computers and communication facilities with the capability to transmit information among the devices or computers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Computer program: means an ordered set of data representing coded instructions or statements that, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to process data. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Computer resource: means a computer program, computer software, computer system, computer network, computer information or any combination thereof. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Computer software: means a set of computer programs, procedures and associated documentation used in the operation of a computer system. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Computer system: means any combination of a computer or computers with the documentation, computer software or physical facilities supporting the computer. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Computer virus: means any computer instruction, information, data or program that degrades the performance of a computer resource; disables, damages or destroys a computer resource; or attaches itself to another computer resource and executes when the host computer program, data or instruction is executed or when some other event takes place in the host computer resource, data or instruction. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Conditional license: means a license granted to an applicant for licensure who has met all the requirements defined in section 13858, except for supervised experience. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- Consent of county: means a vote taken pursuant to section 122 or a vote taken at an election at which a majority of the legal votes of the voters of a county voting at the election are cast in favor of a question seeking approval of funding construction of a jail facility through the issuance of bonds or the guarantee by the counties of bonds issued by the jail authority. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802
- Conversion therapy: means any practice or treatment that seeks or claims to change an individual's sexual orientation or gender identity, including, but not limited to, any effort to change gender expression or to eliminate or reduce sexual or romantic attractions, feelings or behavior toward others based on the individual's gender. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 59-C
- Counseling: means assisting individuals, families or groups through the counseling relationship to develop understanding of intrapersonal and interpersonal problems, to define goals, to make decisions, to plan a course of action reflecting their needs, and to use information and community resources, as these procedures are related to personal, social, educational and vocational development. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- Counselor: means an individual who for a fee, monetary or otherwise, engages in any of the procedures of counseling defined in subsection 8. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- County: means either Lincoln County or Sagadahoc County, and "counties" means both Lincoln County and Sagadahoc County. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Data storage device: means any computer or accessory device, designed for or capable of storing digital media or data, including, but not limited to, installed or transportable hard drives, memory cards and servers. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 431
- Department: means the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851
- Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
- Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
- Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
- Intent to deprive: means to have the conscious object:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 352jail: means any land area, structure, location or equipment, or combination of them, used for the confinement of prisoners. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802 jail authority: means the authority formed under this chapter and Title 13, chapter 81. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Marital and family therapy services: means the assessment and treatment of intrapersonal and interpersonal problems through the application of principles, methods and therapeutic techniques for the purpose of resolving emotional conflicts, modifying perceptions and behavior, enhancing communication and understanding among all family members, and preventing family and individual crises. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851 Marriage and family therapist: means a person who renders or offers to render for a fee, monetary or otherwise, marital and family therapy services. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851 Municipal officers: means the municipal officers or councillors of a town or the mayor and municipal officers or councillors of a city. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802 Municipality: means a city or town. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Operating and governance agreement: means the documents that set the terms of the jail authority operations and structure for governance. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802 Pastoral counselor: means an individual who is trained and certified to provide for a fee, monetary or otherwise, pastoral counseling, which is ministry to individuals, families, couples, groups, organizations and the general public involving the application of principles and procedures of counseling to assess and treat intrapersonal and interpersonal problems and other dysfunctional behavior of a social and spiritual nature, and to assist in the overall development and healing process of those served. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851 Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law. Probation officers: Screen applicants for pretrial release and monitor convicted offenders released under court supervision. Procedures of counseling: means methods and techniques that include, but are not limited to, the following. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851 Professional counseling: means providing counseling services, marital and family therapy services and pastoral counseling services, including any procedures of counseling. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851 Professional counselor: means a person who, for a fee, monetary or otherwise, renders or offers to render to individuals, families, groups, organizations or the general public a service involving the application of principles and procedures of counseling to assist those served in achieving more effective personal, emotional, social, educational and vocational development and adjustment. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851 Property: means anything of value, including but not limited to:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 352Property of another: includes property in which any person or government other than the actor has an interest that the actor is not privileged to infringe, regardless of the fact that the actor also has an interest in the property and regardless of the fact that the other person might be precluded from civil recovery because the property was used in an unlawful transaction or was subject to forfeiture as contraband. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 17-A Sec. 352 Referral: means the evaluation of information to identify needs or problems of the counselee and to determine the advisability of referral to other specialists, informing the counselee of that judgment, and communicating as requested or deemed appropriate with referral sources. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 13851 registered mail: when used in connection with any requirement for notice by mail shall mean either registered mail or certified mail. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72 Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action. Revenues: means the proceeds of bonds, all revenues, rates, tolls, assessments, rents, transportation charges, reimbursement from the State excluding community corrections money, boarding fees and inmate-related medical reimbursements, and other charges and receipts derived by the jail authority from the operation of a multicounty jail, including, but not limited to, investment earnings and the proceeds of insurance, condemnation, sale or other disposition of properties, and must include proceeds from assessments when the power of assessment has been granted to the jail authority under sections 1952 and 1953. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 30-A Sec. 1802 Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party. Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Testify: Answer questions in court.