Oklahoma § 59-1925.2 - Definitions

§ 59-1925.2. Definitions

For purposes of the Marital and Family Therapist Licensure Act:

1. "Advertise" means, but is not limited to, the issuing or

causing to be distributed any card, sign, or device to any person;

or the causing, permitting or allowing any sign or marking on or in

any building or structure, or in any newspaper or magazine or in any

directory, or on radio or television, or by advertising by any other

means designed to secure public attention;

2. "Board" means the State Board of Behavioral Health

Licensure;

3. "Licensed marital and family therapist" means a person

holding a current license issued pursuant to the provisions of the

Marital and Family Therapist Licensure Act;

4. "Marital and family therapy" means the assessment, diagnosis

and treatment of disorders, whether cognitive, affective, or

behavioral, within the context of marital and family systems.

Marital and family therapy involves the professional application of

family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of services

to individuals, marital pairs, and families for the purpose of

treating such disorders;

5. "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation,

partnership, organization or body politic;

6. "Practice of marital and family therapy" means the rendering

of professional marital and family therapy services to individuals,

family groups and marital pairs, singly or in groups, whether such

services are offered directly to the general public or through

organizations either public or private, for a fee, monetary or

otherwise;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 59. Professions and Occupations

7. "Recognized educational institution" means a regionally

accredited college or university recognized by the United States

Department of Education;

8. "Use a title or description of" means to hold oneself out to

the public as having a particular status by means of stating on

signs, mailboxes, address plates, stationery, announcements, calling

cards or other instruments of professional identification;

9. "Licensed marital and family therapist candidate" means a

person whose application for licensure has been accepted and who is

under supervision for licensure as set forth in Section 1925.6 of

this title; and

10. "Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the

State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 166, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1991. Amended by Laws

1995, c. 167, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 1998, c. 295, § 17, eff.

Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2013, c. 229, § 18, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.