2023 Tennessee Code › Title 63 - PROFESSIONS OF THE HEALING ARTS (§§ 63-1-NEW — 63-32-119) › Chapter 22 - PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS, MARITAL AND FAMILY THERAPISTS, AND CLINICAL PASTORAL THERAPISTS (§§ 63-22-101 — 63-22-404) › Part 2 - CLINICAL PASTORAL THERAPY (§§ 63-22-201 — 63-22-208) › Section 63-22-201 - Part definitions

The following definitions shall apply in this part, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:
(1)
"Advertise" means, but is not limited to, business solicitations, with or without limiting qualifications, in a card, sign or device issued to a person, in a sign or marking in or on any building or in any newspaper, magazine, directory or other printed matter. Advertising also includes business solicitations communicated by individual, radio, video or television broadcasting or other means designed to secure public attention;
(2)
"Certified clinical pastoral therapist" means a person who has met the qualifications for certified clinical pastoral therapist and holds a current, unsuspended or unrevoked certificate that has been lawfully issued by the board;
(3)
"Clinical pastoral education" means program of training designed to acquaint students of theology and practicing clergy with the clinical method of learning, increase skills in the arts of pastoral care and facilitate integration of a professional pastoral identity. Programs typically occur in general medical, psychiatric or penal institutions;
(4)
"Clinical pastoral therapy" means the diagnosis and treatment, from a clinical pastoral perspective, of the psychodynamics, interpersonal dynamics and spiritual dynamics of persons experiencing emotional behavioral or relational distress or dysfunction. Clinical pastoral therapy involves the integration and professional application of resources and techniques from the religious community's traditions of pastoral care and counsel along with recognized principles, methods and procedures of the contemporary psychotherapy community in the delivery of counseling and psychotherapeutic services to individuals, couples, families and groups;
(5)
"Licensed clinical pastoral therapist" means a person who has met the qualifications for a licensed clinical pastoral therapist and who holds a current, unsuspended or unrevoked license that has been issued lawfully by the board;
(6)
"Practice of clinical pastoral therapy" means the rendering of professional clinical pastoral therapy to individuals, couples, families or groups, either offered directly to the general public by an individual operating independently of any institution, organization or agency, through mental health clinics or agencies, whether public or private or through hospitals, whether public or private, for a fee, excluding volunteer hours;
(7)
"Recognized educational institution" means any educational institution that is accredited by a nationally or regionally recognized educational accrediting body;
(8)
"Supervision" means the direct clinical review, for the purpose of training or teaching, by a board-approved supervisor, of a clinical pastoral therapist's interaction with clients. The purpose of supervision shall be to promote the development of the practitioner's clinical skills. Supervision may include, without being limited to, the review of case presentations, audiotapes, videotapes and direct observation; and
(9)
"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, business cards or other instruments of professional identification.
Amended by 2019 Tenn. Acts, ch. 233, Secs.s 1, s 2 eff. 4/30/2019.
Amended by 2016 Tenn. Acts, ch. 955, s 3, eff. 4/27/2016.
Acts 1997 , ch. 485, § 6; 2003 , ch. 250, §§ 1, 12.