North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 75.5 - Social Work Examiners, Board of › Article 75.5-02 - Licensure › Chapter 75.5-02-01 - Interpretive Rules › Section 75.5-02-01-03 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
As used in this title, unless the context or subject matter
				  otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means
				the North Dakota board of social work examiners.
2. "Client" means the individual, couple,
				family, group, organization, or community that seeks or receives social work
				services from an individual licensed social worker or an organization,
				regardless of whether the licensed social worker or organization bills or
				accepts or requests the payment of fees for the services.
3. "Clinical social work practice" means the
				professional application of social work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics, and
				the professional use of self to restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or
				biopsychosocial functioning of individuals, couples, families, and groups. The
				practice of clinical social work requires specialized clinical knowledge and
				advanced clinical skills in the area of assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of
				mental, emotional, and behavioral disorder, conditions, and addictions.
				Treatment methods include the provision of individual, marital, couple, family,
				and group psychotherapy.
4.
				"Clinical supervision for licensure" means an interactional professional
				relationship between a clinical supervisor which meets the standards adopted by
				the board and a social worker and which provides evaluation and direction over
				the supervisee's practice of clinical social work in preparation for the social
				worker's licensure as a licensed clinical social worker, in accordance with the
				requirements adopted by the board, and promotes development of the social
				worker's knowledge, skills, and abilities to engage in the practice of clinical
				social work in an ethical and competent manner.
5. "Consultation" means an advisory
				professional relationship between a social worker and an individual with
				particular expertise, with the social worker legally and ethically maintaining
				responsibility for all judgments and decisions regarding service to the
				client.
6. "Counseling" means a
				method used by a social worker to assist an individual, couple, family, or
				group in learning how to solve problems and make decisions about personal,
				health, social, educational, vocational, financial, and other interpersonal
				concerns.
7. "Electronic social
				work services" means the use of a computer, including the internet, social
				media, online chat, text, and electronic mail, or other electronic means, such
				as a wireless communications device, landline telephone, or video technology,
				to provide information to the public, deliver social work services to a client,
				communicate with a client, manage confidential information and case records,
				store and access information about clients, and arrange payment for
				professional services.
8.
				"Face-to-face supervision" means a direct, interactive, live exchange, either
				in person, by telephone, or by audio or audiovisual electronic device in either
				individual or group supervision.
9.
				"Group supervision" means one supervisor and more than one supervisee,
				including health professionals in related professions. Group supervision is
				facilitated by the supervisor and involves an exchange among all group members.
				The size of the group shall be limited to seven, including the
				supervisor.
10. "Individual
				supervision" means one supervisor and one supervisee.
11. "Licensed baccalaureate social worker"
				means an individual licensed under this chapter to practice baccalaureate
				social work.
12. "Licensed clinical
				social worker" means an individual licensed under this chapter to practice
				clinical social work.
13. "Licensed
				master social worker" means an individual licensed under this chapter to
				practice masters social work.
14.
				"Private practice of social work" means the independent practice of social work
				by a licensee who is practicing within that licensee's scope of practice, and
				who is self-employed on a full-time or part-time basis and is responsible for
				that independent practice. Consultation services provided to an organization or
				an agency are not considered to be the private practice of social
				work.
15. "Psychotherapy" means the
				use of treatment methods utilizing a specialized, formal interaction between a
				licensed clinical social worker and an individual, couple, family, or group in
				which a therapeutic relationship is established, maintained, and sustained to
				understand unconscious processes; intrapersonal, interpersonal, and
				psychosocial dynamics; and the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental,
				emotional, and behavioral disorders, conditions, or addictions.
16. "Social work case management" means a
				method to plan, provide, evaluate, and monitor services by a licensed social
				worker from a variety of resources on behalf of and in collaboration with a
				client.
17. "Social work practice"
				means the application of social work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics, and
				the professional use of self to restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or
				biopsychosocial functioning of individuals, couples, families, groups,
				organizations, and communities. The scope of practice for licensees of the
				board consists of the following:
a. The
				practice of baccalaureate social work, which includes the application of social
				work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics, and the professional use of self to
				restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or biopsychosocial functioning of
				individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
				Baccalaureate social work is generalist practice that includes assessment,
				planning, implementation, intervention, evaluation, research, social work case
				management, information and referral, counseling, supervision, consultation,
				education, advocacy, community organization, and the development,
				implementation, and administration of policies, programs, and
				activities.
b. The practice of
				masters social work, which includes, in addition to the practice of
				baccalaureate social work, the application of specialized knowledge and
				advanced practice skills in the areas of assessment, treatment planning,
				implementation, intervention, evaluation, social work case management
				information and referral, counseling, supervision, consultation, education,
				research, advocacy, community organization, and the development,
				implementation, and administration of policies, programs, and activities. Under
				the supervision of a licensed clinical social worker, the practice of master's
				social work may include the practices reserved to licensed clinical social
				workers.
c. The practice of
				clinical social work, which includes, in addition to the practice of
				baccalaureate social work and the practice of masters social work, the
				application of specialized clinical knowledge and advanced clinical skills in
				the areas of assessment; treatment planning; implementation and evaluation;
				social work case management information and referral; counseling; supervision;
				consultation; education; research; advocacy; community organization; the
				development, implementation, intervention, and administration of policies,
				programs, and activities; and the diagnosis and treatment of mental, emotional,
				and behavioral disorders, conditions, and addictions. Treatment methods include
				the provision of individual, marital, couple, family, and group counseling and
				psychotherapy. The practice of clinical social work may include the provision
				of clinical supervision.