Arizona Laws 32-3271. Exceptions to licensure; jurisdiction
A. This chapter does not apply to:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 32-3271
- Board: means the board of behavioral health examiners. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
- Client: means a patient who receives behavioral health services from a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Process: means a citation, writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Psychotherapy: means a variety of treatment methods developing out of generally accepted theories about human behavior and development. See Arizona Laws 32-3251
1. A person who is currently licensed, certified or regulated pursuant to another chapter of this title and who provides services within the person’s scope of practice if the person does not claim to be licensed pursuant to this chapter.
2. A person who is not a resident of this state if the person:
(a) Performs behavioral health services in this state for not more than ninety days in any one calendar year as prescribed by board rule.
(b) Is authorized to perform these services pursuant to the laws of the state or country in which the person resides or pursuant to the laws of a federally recognized tribe.
(c) Informs the client of the limited nature of these services and that the person is not licensed in this state.
3. A rabbi, priest, minister or member of the clergy of any religious denomination or sect if the activities and services that person performs are within the scope of the performance of the regular or specialized ministerial duties of an established and legally recognizable church, denomination or sect and the person performing the services remains accountable to the established authority of the church, denomination or sect.
4. A member run self-help or self-growth group if no member of the group receives direct or indirect financial compensation.
5. A behavioral health technician or behavioral health paraprofessional who is employed by an agency licensed by the department of health services.
6. A person contracting with the supreme court or a person employed by or contracting with an agency under contract with the supreme court who is otherwise ineligible to be licensed or who is in the process of applying to be licensed under this chapter as long as that person is in compliance with the supreme court contract conditions regarding professional counseling services and practices only under supervision.
7. A person who is employed by the department of economic security or the department of child safety and who practices social work, marriage and family therapy, substance abuse counseling, counseling and case management within the scope of the person’s job duties and under direct supervision by the employer department.
8. A student, intern or trainee who is pursuing a course of study in social work, counseling, marriage and family therapy, substance abuse counseling or case management in a regionally accredited institution of higher education or training institution if the person’s activities are performed under qualified supervision and are part of the person’s supervised course of study.
9. A person who is practicing social work, counseling and case management and who is employed by an agency licensed by the department of economic security or the department of child safety.
10. A paraprofessional employed by the department of economic security or by an agency licensed by the department of economic security.
11. A Christian Science practitioner if all of the following are true:
(a) The person is not providing psychotherapy.
(b) The activities and services the person performs are within the scope of the performance of the regular or specialized duties of a Christian Science practitioner.
(c) The person remains accountable to the established authority of the practitioner’s church.
12. A person who is not providing psychotherapy.
B. A person who provides services pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 2 is deemed to have agreed to the jurisdiction of the board and to be bound by the laws of this state.