Sec. 4. (a) “Practice of behavior analysis” means the design, implementation, and evaluation of instructional and environmental modifications to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior. The term includes the following:

(1) Empirical identification of functional relations between behavior and environmental factors through functional assessment and analysis.

(2) Applied behavior analysis interventions based on scientific research and the direct observation and measurement of behavior and the environment.

(3) Use of contextual factors, motivating operations, antecedent stimuli, positive reinforcement, and other consequences to assist people in developing new behaviors, increase or decrease existing behaviors, and emit behaviors under specific environmental conditions.

     (b) The term does not include the following:

(1) Psychological testing.

(2) Diagnosis of mental or physical disorders.

(3) Neuropsychology.

(4) Psychotherapy.

(5) Cognitive therapy.

(6) Sex therapy.

(7) Psychoanalysis.

(8) Hypnotherapy.

(9) Counseling.

As added by P.L.212-2021, SEC.11.