Sec. 6. “Practice of clinical social work” means professional services that are designed to help individuals, marriages, couples, families, groups, and communities to enhance or restore their capacity for functioning by:

(1) assisting in the obtaining or improving of tangible social and health services;

(2) providing a mental health diagnosis;

(3) using appraisal instruments as an aid in treatment planning that the clinical social worker is qualified to employ by virtue of the counselor’s education, training, and experience; and

(4) counseling and psychotherapeutic techniques, casework social work advocacy, and treatment in a variety of settings that include mental and physical health facilities, child and family service agencies, or private practice.

As added by P.L.186-1990, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.147-1997, SEC.22; P.L.138-2021, SEC.3.