Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 641A - Marriage and Family Therapists and Clinical Professional Counselors › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 641A.035 - Definitions

Current through June 11, 2024
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise
				requires:
1. "Approved provider of
			 continuing education" means a natural person, business entity or governmental
			 entity that the Board has approved to provide courses or programs of continuing
			 education pursuant to NAC
			 641A.126.
2. "Approved supervisor" has the meaning
			 ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 641A.025 and includes an approved primary and
			 secondary supervisor.
3. "Board"
			 has the meaning ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 641A.030.
4. "Clinical professional counselor" has the
			 meaning ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 641A.031.
5. "Clinical professional counselor intern"
			 means a person licensed as a clinical professional counselor intern pursuant to
			 NRS
			 641A.288.
6. "Clinical relationship" means any
			 relationship in which a marriage and family therapist, clinical professional
			 counselor or intern, as applicable, has engaged in the treatment of a
			 client.
7. "Course or program of
			 continuing education" means a course or program of education and training that
			 is designed to maintain, improve or enhance the knowledge and competency of a
			 licensee.
8. "Intern" means a
			 marriage and family therapist intern or a clinical professional counselor
			 intern.
9. "Internship" means the
			 period of supervised experience required of a marriage and family therapist
			 intern pursuant to
			 NRS
			 641A.287 or a clinical professional counselor
			 intern pursuant to
			 NRS
			 641A.288.
10. "License" has the meaning ascribed to it
			 in
			 NRS
			 641A.040.
11. "Marriage and family therapist" has the
			 meaning ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 641A.060.
12. "Marriage and family therapist intern"
			 means a person licensed as a marriage and family therapist intern pursuant to
			 NRS
			 641A.287.
13. "Practice of clinical professional
			 counseling" has the meaning ascribed to in
			 NRS
			 641A.065.
14. "Practice of marriage and family therapy"
			 has the meaning ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 641A.080.
15. "Private practice" means engaging in work
			 at a facility at which the compensation of the intern for federal income taxes
			 is not reported, or required to be reported, on Form W-2 by the facility
			 because the intern is a sole proprietor, self-employed or an independent
			 contractor.
16. "Provider of
			 continuing education" means a natural person, business entity or governmental
			 entity that presents a course or program of continuing education that must be
			 approved pursuant to NAC
			 641A.123.
17. "Provider of health care" has the meaning
			 ascribed to it in
			 NRS
			 629.031.
18. "Staff" means the staff of the Board,
			 including, without limitation, any person who has entered into a contract with
			 the Board to provide services to the Board as an independent
			 contractor.
19. "Treatment" means
			 the provision, coordination or management of marriage and family therapy or
			 clinical professional counseling or related services by one or more providers
			 of health care, including coordination or management of health care by a
			 provider of health care with a third party, and consultation between or among
			 providers of health care relating to the client.
Added to NAC by Bd. of
				Exam'rs for Marriage & Fam. Therapists, eff. 12-14-87; A 1-12-96; A by Bd.
				of Exam'rs for Marriage & Fam. Therapists & Clinical Prof. Counselors
				by R060-08, 9-18-2008; A by
				R091-14,
				eff. 6/28/2016; A by
				R094-18AP,
				eff. 8/30/2018; A by
				R051-19A,
				eff. 2/20/2020
NRS
				641A.160