"Act" -
Answer✓✓
means the Licensed Professional Counselors Act, 59 O.S. §§ 1901 et seq., as amended.
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"Administrative Procedures Act" ("APA") -
Answer✓✓
means Article I and/or Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act, 75 O.S. §§ 250 et seq
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"Applicant" -
Answer✓✓
means a person who has made a formal application with the Board.
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,"Approved LPC Supervisor" ("Supervisor") -
Answer✓✓
means an individual who meets the qualifications to become an approved supervisor and is
approved by the Board pursuant to Section 86:10-11-4 of this Chapter.
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"Board" -
Answer✓✓
means the State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure.
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"Complainant" -
Answer✓✓
means any person who files a Request for Inquiry against a LPC, Candidate, or a person who
delivers licensed professional counseling services without a license.
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"Complaint Committee" -
Answer✓✓
means one Board member who is a LPC, the Executive Director, the Assistant Attorney
General and may include other appropriate individuals as determined by the Committee.
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,"Dual relationship" -
Answer✓✓
means a familial, social, financial, business, professional, close personal, sexual or other
nontherapeutic relationship with a client, or engaging in any activity with another person that
interferes or conflicts with the LPC's or LPC Candidate's professional obligation to a client.
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"Direct Client Contact Hours" -
Answer✓✓
means the performance of therapeutic or clinical functions that includes diagnosis, assessment
and treatment of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders based primarily on verbal
communications and intervention with, and in the presence of, one or more clients.
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"Employee" -
Answer✓✓
means in accordance with 26 U.S.C. § 3121 (d): (A) Any officer of a corporation; or (B) Any
individual who, under the usual common law rules applicable in determining the employer-
employee relationship, has the status of employee.
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"Face-to-face supervision" -
Answer✓✓
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, means the Supervisor and the Candidate shall be in the physical presence of the other during
individual or group supervision.
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"Forensic services" -
Answer✓✓
means the application of knowledge, training and experience from the mental health field to the
establishment of facts and/or the establishment of evidence in a court of law or ordered by a
court of law.
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"Formal Complaint" -
Answer✓✓
means a written statement of alleged violation(s) of the Act and/or Rules which is filed by the
Assistant Attorney General. The Formal Complaint schedules an Individual Proceeding before
the Board in accordance with 75 O.S. §309.
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"Counseling" -
Answer✓✓
means the application of mental health and developmental principles in order to: a. facilitate
human development and adjustment throughout the life span, b. prevent, diagnose or treat
mental, emotional or behavioral disorders or associated distress which interfere with mental
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