(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Board" means the mental health professions
licensing board;
(ii) "Mental health procedures" means engaging in
methods and techniques which include, but are not restricted to:
(A) "Counseling" means assisting clients through
the counseling relationship, using a combination of mental
health, psychotherapy and human development principles, methods
and techniques, to achieve mental, emotional, physical, social,
moral, educational, spiritual or career development and
adjustment through the life span, but shall not include
religious instruction;
(B) "Appraisal" means selecting, administering,
scoring and interpreting instruments designed to assess an
individual's attitudes, abilities, achievements, interests and
personal characteristics and the use of methods and techniques
for understanding human behavior in relation to coping with,
adapting to, or changing life situations;
(C) "Consulting" means the application of
scientific principles and procedures in counseling and human
development to provide assistance in understanding and solving
current or potential problems that the client may have in
relation to a third party, be it an individual, a group or an
organization;
(D) "Referral" means evaluating and identifying
needs of a client to determine the advisability of referral to
other specialists, informing the client of such judgment and
communicating as requested or deemed appropriate to such
referral sources;
(E) "Research" means systematic efforts to
collect, evaluate, interpret and apply procedures related to
improving the understanding and delivery of counseling services
to clients.
(iii) "Licensed professional counselor, (LPC),
licensed marriage and family therapist, (LMFT), licensed
clinical social worker, (LCSW) and licensed addictions
therapist, (LAT)," mean persons who represent themselves to the
public by any title or description of psychotherapy services
incorporating the words "professional counselor", "marriage and
family therapist", "clinical social worker", or "addictions
therapist", who offer to render professional services in these
fields to individuals, groups, organizations, corporations,
institutions, government agencies, or the general public for
compensation, implying that they are licensed and trained,
experienced or expert in one (1) or more of these fields of
practice and who hold a valid license to engage in the practice
of one (1) or more of these specializations. These persons may
practice independent of supervision;
(iv) "Practice of addictions therapy" means providing
services based on theory and methods of counseling,
psychotherapy, and addictionology to persons who are
experiencing cognitive, affective or behavioral psychosocial
dysfunction as a direct or indirect result of addiction,
chemical dependency, abuse of chemical substances or related
disorders. The practice of addictions therapy includes, but is
not limited to, addiction prevention, crisis intervention,
diagnosis, referral, direct treatment, and follow-up treatment
which is rendered to individuals, families, groups,
organizations, schools and communities who are adversely
affected by addictions or related disorders;
(v) "Practice of clinical social work" means applying
social work theory and methods to the diagnosis, treatment and
prevention of psychosocial dysfunction, disability or
impairment, including emotional and mental disorders. It is
based on knowledge of one (1) or more theories of human
development within a psychosocial context. The perspective of
person-in-situation is central to professional social work
practice. Professional clinical social work includes but is not
limited to interventions directed to interpersonal interactions,
intrapsychic dynamics, and life support and management issues.
Professional clinical social work services consist of
assessment, diagnosis, treatment, including psychotherapy and
counseling, client-centered advocacy, consultation and
evaluation with individuals, families, groups, communities and
organizations;
(vi) "Practice of counseling" means rendering to
individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations,
corporations, institutions, government agencies or the general
public a service that integrates a wellness, pathology and
multicultural model of human behavior. This model applies a
combination of mental health, psychotherapeutic, and human
development principles and procedures to help clients achieve
effective mental, emotional, physical, social, moral,
educational, spiritual or career development and adjustment
throughout the life span, and includes the diagnostic
description and treatment of mental disorders or disabilities
within the range of the professional's preparation;
(vii) "Practice of marriage and family therapy" means
the rendering of professional marital and family therapy
services and treatment to individuals, family groups and marital
pairs, singly or in groups. Marital and family therapy includes
but is not limited to the diagnosis and treatment, including
psychotherapy, of nervous, emotional, and mental disorders,
whether cognitive, affective or behavioral, within the context
of marital and family systems. Marital and family therapy
involves the professional application of psychotherapeutic and
family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of
services to individuals, marital pairs and families for the
purpose of treating such diagnosed nervous and mental disorders;
(viii) "Psychotherapy" means the treatment,
diagnosis, testing, assessment or counseling in a professional
relationship to assist individuals or groups to alleviate mental
disorders, understand unconscious or conscious motivation,
resolve emotional relationships, or attitudinal conflicts, or
modify behaviors which interfere with effective emotional,
social or intellectual functioning;
(ix) "Use of 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;
(x) Certified addictions practitioner (CAP) means a
person certified under this act to practice addictions
treatment, prevention, intervention, diagnosis, referral and
follow up under the supervision of a qualified clinical
supervisor licensed in the state of Wyoming;
(xi) Certified social worker (CSW) means a person
certified under this act to perform social work treatment,
prevention, intervention, case management, referral and follow
up with individuals diagnosed with mental illnesses or mental
disorders under the supervision of a qualified clinical
supervisor licensed in the state of Wyoming;
(xii) Certified mental health worker (CMHW) means a
person certified under this act to perform the application of
human services or psychological theory and methods to the
assessment, treatment or prevention of psychosocial dysfunction,
disability or impairment, including emotional or mental
disorders, under the supervision of a qualified clinical
supervisor licensed in the state of Wyoming. The practice of a
CMHW shall not include assigning a diagnosis or acting as a
primary treatment provider;
(xiii) "Qualified clinical supervisor" means a
licensed professional counselor, licensed clinical social
worker, licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed
addictions therapist, licensed psychologist, a licensed
psychiatrist, licensed physician with specialty in
addictionology or a licensed advanced practitioner of nursing
with psychiatric specialty;
(xiv) "This act" means W.S. 33-38-101 through
33-38-113;
(xv) "Domicile" means that place where a person has
his true, fixed and permanent home to which whenever the person
is absent the person has the intention of returning;
(xvi) "Certified addictions practitioner assistant"
means a person certified under this act to assist in the
practice of addictions treatment, prevention, intervention,
referral and followup under the supervision of a qualified
clinical supervisor licensed in the state of Wyoming;
(xvii) "Human behavioral discipline" refers to a
degree in addictionology, chemical dependency, substance use
disorder, counseling, psychology, social work, sociology or a
related field.