Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing › Part 11 - Licensing Clinical Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists › Section 216-RICR-40-05-11.2 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. In addition to the definitions within R.I.
				  Gen. Laws Chapter
				  5-63.2, the following terms shall
				  be construed as follows:
1. "Act" refers to
				  R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  5-63.2, entitled, "Clinical Mental
				  Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists."
2. "Allied field" means counselor education,
				  psychology, marriage and family therapy, counseling psychology, community
				  mental health, education with a concentration in counseling or psychology, or
				  other field determined by the Board to be an allied field. Said allied field
				  shall include all components of the core curriculum, as it appears in
				  §11.5.1 of this Part entitled "The Core Curriculum: Clinical Mental Health
				  Counselors" or in 11.5.2 of this Part entitled "The Core Curriculum: Marriage
				  and Family Therapists".
3. "Board"
				  means the Board of Clinical Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family
				  Therapists.
4. "CACREP" means
				  Counsel for Accreditation of Counseling amp; Related Educational
				  programs.
5. "Clinical counselor in
				  mental health" means a person who has been licensed pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws
				  §
											5-63.2-9, which license is in force
				  and not suspended or revoked as of the particular time in question.
6. "Clinical instruction" means all
				  supervised course work within which the student has the opportunity to engage
				  in a broad range of clinical activities similar to those performed by a
				  licensed counselor/therapist. This includes all practice and internships
				  completed within a student's program.
7. "The practice of clinical mental health
				  counseling," in addition to the definition in R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  5-63.2, includes the following
				  professional services:
a. Promoting mental
				  health and wellness, which includes the achievement of social, career, and
				  emotional development across the lifespan, as well as preventing and treating
				  mental disorders and providing crisis intervention.
b. Psychotherapy, diagnosis, evaluation,
				  administration of assessments, tests, and appraisals, referral, and treatment
				  of behavioral, emotional, addiction and mental disorders, and establishment of
				  counseling treatment plans for individuals, couples, groups, and families with
				  emotional, mental, addiction, and physical disorders.
c. Consultation and program evaluation,
				  program administration within and to schools and organizations, and training
				  and supervision of interns, trainees, and pre-licensed professional counselors
				  through accepted and established principles, methods, procedures, and ethics of
				  counselor supervision.
d. The
				  practice of clinical mental health counseling does not include functions or
				  practices that are not within the professional's training or
				  education.
8.
				  "Department" means the Rhode Island Department of Health.
9. "Director" means the Director of the Rhode
				  Island Department of Health.
10.
				  "Individual (face-to-face) supervision" means a tutorial relationship between a
				  member of the mental health counseling profession and a student trainee. The
				  supervisor monitors the clinical work of the trainee in order to evaluate this
				  work, monitor the quality of services being offered to clients, and enhance the
				  professional growth of the trainee.
11. "Internship" means a part of an organized
				  graduate or post-graduate program in counseling therapy and shall constitute a
				  supervised experience within a mental health and/or marriage and family
				  setting.
12. "Marriage and family
				  therapist" means a person who has been licensed pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws
				  §
											5-63.2-10 which license is in force
				  and not suspended or revoked as of the particular time in question.
13. "This Part" means Rules and Regulations
				  for Licensing Clinical Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family
				  Therapists.
14. "Person" means any
				  individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization or body
				  politic.
15. "Practice of marriage
				  and family therapy" means the rendering of professional services to
				  individuals, family groups, couples or organizations for monetary compensation.
				  These professional services would include applying principles, methods, and
				  therapeutic techniques for the purpose of resolving emotional conflicts,
				  modifying perceptions and behavior, enhancing communications and understanding
				  among all family members and the prevention of family and individual crisis.
				  Individual marriage and family therapists also engage in psychotherapy of a
				  nonmedical and nonpsychotic nature with appropriate referrals to psychiatric
				  resources.
16. "Practicum" means a
				  part of an organized graduate program or postgraduate program in counseling
				  therapy and shall constitute a supervised experience within the graduate
				  counseling program or post-graduate program.
17. "Recognized educational institution"
				  means any educational institution which grants a Bachelor's, Master's, or
				  Doctoral degree, and which is recognized by the Board of Clinical Mental Health
				  Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapy Examiners or a recognized
				  post-graduate clinical training program as specified in R.I. Gen. Laws
				  §§
											5-63.2-9 and
				   5-63.2-10.
18. "R.I. Gen. Laws" means Rhode Island
				  General Laws, as amended.
19. "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.