Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes > Title 32 > Chapter 83 > Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• 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
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• licensed clinical social worker: is a person who has received a license as a clinical social worker from the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7001-A
• licensed master social worker: is a person who has received a license as a master social worker from the board. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7001-A
• licensed social worker: includes a person who has received a conditional license as a licensed social worker. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7001-A
• 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.
• Psychosocial evaluation: includes the determination and examination by social workers of the psychosocial situation of an individual or group related to interpersonal and intrapersonal stress, family background, family interaction, living arrangements and socioeconomic problems and treatment, evaluation, plans and goals, including the diagnosis of mental illness and emotional disorders for the purpose of treatment and therapeutic intervention, but excluding the treatment of any illness by organic therapy, to the extent permitted by the licensure provision of this chapter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7001-A
• Social work: means engaging in psychosocial evaluation and intervention, including therapy, to the extent permitted by the licensure provisions of this chapter, to effect a change in the feelings, attitudes and behavior of a client, whether an individual, group or community. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 32 Sec. 7001-A
• Testify: Answer questions in court.