Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XXV - Credentialed Social Workers › Chapter 3 - General Provisions › Section XXV-301 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Board Approved Supervision Workshop
- this
				  workshop shall be pre-approved by the board. At least 6 1/2 clock hours
				  required for workshop to be acceptable and shall deal with supervision models,
				  the theory and techniques of supervision, record keeping, ethics and
				  multicultural issues.
Client
-the individual, couple, family,
				  group, organization, or community that seeks or receives social work
				  services.
Clinical Social Work Practice
-the practice
				  of clinical social work requires the application of specialized clinical
				  knowledge and advanced clinical skills in the areas of prevention, assessment,
				  diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional, and behavioral and addiction
				  disorders. Treatment methods include the provision of individual, marital,
				  couple, family, and group psychotherapy. The practice of clinical social work
				  may include, but is not limited to, private practice, employee assistance and
				  addiction services.
Continuing Education
-education and training,
				  which are oriented to maintain, improve or enhance social work practice.
Continuing Education Contact Hour
-a
				  60-minute clock hour of instruction, not including breaks or meals.
Conviction
-conviction of a crime by a court
				  of competent jurisdiction and shall include a finding or verdict of guilt,
				  whether or not the adjudication of guilt is withheld or not entered on
				  admission of guilt, a no contest plea, a plea of nolo contendere, and a guilty
				  plea.
Counseling
-a method used by social workers
				  to assist individuals, couples, families, and groups in learning how to solve
				  problems and make decisions about personal, health, social, educational,
				  vocational, financial, and other interpersonal concerns.
Credential
-can be the registration (RSW),
				  certification (CSW) or license (LMSW) and (LCSW) regulated by the Louisiana
				  Social Work Practice Act.
Detrimental to the Client
-an act or omission
				  of a professional responsibility that is damaging to the physical, mental,
				  social or financial status of the client.
Electronic Social Work Practice
-use of
				  computers (including the internet, social media, on line chat, text, and email)
				  and other electronic means (such as smart phones, landline telephones and video
				  technology) to:
1. provide information to the public;
2. deliver social work services to clients;
3. communicate with clients;
4. manage confidential information and case records;
5. store and access information about clients; and
6. arrange payment for professional services.
Examination
-a standardized test or
				  examination of social work knowledge, skills, and abilities, which has been
				  approved by the board.
Exploitation
-an unequal power balance is
				  inherent in the client/social worker relationship. This power imbalance is
				  weighted toward the social worker. To use this power imbalance for the good of
				  the social worker at the expense of the client is exploitation. Exploitation
				  may take financial, business, emotional, sexual, verbal, religious and/or
				  relational forms.
Felony
-criminal conduct punishable by
				  imprisonment at hard labor or as otherwise defined as a felony by this state or
				  any other state or by federal law.
Good Moral Character
-the aggregate of
				  qualities evidenced by past conduct, social relations, or life habits, which
				  actually provide persons acquainted with the applicant a basis to form a common
				  favorable opinion regarding the social worker's ethics and responsibility to
				  duty.
Gross Negligence
-in the practice of social
				  work, means conduct by either act or omission involving a legal or professional
				  duty about which the social worker displays conscious indifference and where
				  the consequences of such conduct could adversely affect the rights or welfare
				  of those persons to whom the social worker owes the duty.
Independent Practice
-practice of social work
				  outside of an organized setting, such as a social, medical, or governmental
				  agency, after completion of all applicable supervision requirements, in which
				  the social worker assumes responsibility and accountability for services
				  provided. LCSWs also engage in independent practice within an agency
				  setting.
In-Person
-interactions in which the social
				  worker and the client are in the same physical space and does not include
				  interactions that may occur through the use of technology.
Private Practice
-an activity characterized
				  by contracting directly and receiving direct payment from clients or agencies
				  to provide clinical services, educational services, consultation, research or
				  supervision, as an autonomous practitioner solely responsible for the welfare
				  of the client and for the services rendered.
Psychotherapy
-the use of treatment methods
				  utilizing a specialized, formal interaction between a social worker and an
				  individual, couple, family, or group in which a therapeutic relationship is
				  established, maintained and sustained to understand unconscious processes,
				  intra- personal, interpersonal and psychosocial dynamics. Psychotherapy
				  requires the application of diagnosis and treatment to mental, emotional, and
				  behavioral disorders, conditions and addictions.
Remote
-provision of social work services
				  where the social worker is not physically located at the site where the
				  services are received. The distance between the social worker and the recipient
				  of services is not a consideration.
Sexual Harassment
-sexual advances, sexual
				  solicitation, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct
				  of a sexual nature.
Social Work Employee
-such status requires
				  that the social worker provide direct or indirect social work services, receive
				  remuneration from an employer for these services, and that the social worker's
				  employer deduct federal withholding tax, FICA or other retirement benefits from
				  the salary or wages.
Supervisee
-any person under the supervision
				  of a credentialed social worker. The supervisee may be an applicant for social
				  work credentials, an employee under the supervision of the LCSW, LMSW, CSW or
				  RSW, or a person who contracts with the licensed clinical social worker for
				  supervision.
Supervision within an Agency
-the
				  professional relationship between a supervisor and a social worker that
				  provides evaluation and direction over the services provided by the social
				  worker and promotes continued development of the social worker's knowledge,
				  skills, and abilities to provide social work services in an ethical and
				  competent manner.
Supportive Counseling
-the methods used by
				  social workers to help individuals create and maintain adaptive patterns. Such
				  methods may include building community resources and networks, linking clients
				  with services and resources, educating clients and informing the public,
				  helping clients identify and build strengths, leading client and community
				  groups, and providing reassurance and support.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
				  Promulgated in accordance with
				  R.S.
				  37:2705(C).