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(Section scheduled to =
be
repealed on January 1, 2013)
Sec. 10. Definitions. =
As
used in this Act:
"Professional
counseling" means the provision of services to individuals, couples,
groups, families, and organizations in any one or more of the fields of
professional counseling. Professional counseling includes, but is not lim=
ited
to:
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social, emotional, educational, and career
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testing and evaluation;
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a professional relationship between a counselor
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and a client in which the counse=
lor
provides assistance in coping with life issues that include relationshi=
ps,
conflicts, problem solving, decision making, and developmental concerns;
and
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research.
Professional counseling
may also include clinical professional counseling as long as it is not
conducted in independent private practice as defined in this Act. =
"Clinical
professional counseling" means the provision of professional counsel=
ing
and mental health services, which includes, but is not limited to, the
application of clinical counseling theory and techniques to prevent and
alleviate mental and emotional disorders and psychopathology and to promo=
te
optimal mental health, rehabilitation, treatment, testing, assessment, and
evaluation. It also includes clinical counseling and psychotherapy in a
professional relationship to assist individuals, couples, families, group=
s,
and organizations to alleviate emotional disorders, to understand conscio=
us
and unconscious motivation, to resolve emotional, relationship, and
attitudinal conflicts, and to modify behaviors that interfere with effect=
ive
emotional, social, adaptive, and intellectual functioning.
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