For purposes of the Marital and Family Therapist Licensure Act:

1. "Advertise" means, but is not limited to, the issuing or causing to be distributed any card, sign, or device to any person; or the causing, permitting or allowing any sign or marking on or in any building or structure, or in any newspaper or magazine or in any directory, or on radio or television, or by advertising by any other means designed to secure public attention;

2. "Board" means the State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure;

3. "Licensed marital and family therapist" means a person holding a current license issued pursuant to the provisions of the Marital and Family Therapist Licensure Act;

4. "Marital and family therapy" means the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of disorders, whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral, within the context of marital and family systems. Marital and family therapy involves the professional application of family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of services to individuals, marital pairs, and families for the purpose of treating such disorders;

5. "Person" means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, organization or body politic;

6. "Practice of marital and family therapy" means the rendering of professional marital and family therapy services to individuals, family groups and marital pairs, singly or in groups, whether such services are offered directly to the general public or through organizations either public or private, for a fee, monetary or otherwise;

7. "Recognized educational institution" means a regionally accredited college or university recognized by the United States Department of Education;

8. "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;

9. "Licensed marital and family therapist candidate" means a person whose application for licensure has been accepted and who is under supervision for licensure as set forth in Section 1925.6 of this title; and

10. "Executive Director" means the Executive Director of the State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure.

Added by Laws 1990, c. 166, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1991. Amended by Laws 1995, c. 167, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1995; Laws 1998, c. 295, § 17, eff. Nov. 1, 1998; Laws 2013, c. 229, § 18, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.