QUESTIONS VERIFIED ANSWERS
◉ "Administrative Procedures Act" ("APA") Answer: means Article I
and/or Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act, 75 O.S. §§ 250 et
seq
◉ "Applicant" Answer: means a person who has made a formal
application with the Board.
◉ "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.
◉ "Board" Answer: means the State Board of Behavioral Health
Licensure.
◉ "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.
◉ "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.
,◉ "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.
◉ "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.
◉ "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.
◉ "Face-to-face supervision" Answer: means the Supervisor and the
Candidate shall be in the physical presence of the other during individual
or group supervision.
◉ "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.
,◉ "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.
◉ "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 health, c. conduct assessments or diagnoses for the
purpose of establishing treatment goals and objectives, and d. plan,
implement or evaluate treatment plans using counseling treatment
interventions;
◉ "Full time" Answer: means at least twenty (20) hours of on-the-job
experience per week.
◉ "Group supervision" Answer: means an assemblage of two (2) to six
(6) Candidates.
◉ "Home-study" or "technology-assisted distance learning" Answer:
means the delivery of graduate coursework or continuing education
through mailed correspondence or other distance learning technologies,
which focuses on using synchronous or asynchronous instructional
delivery methods.
, ◉ "Licensed Professional Counselor" ("LPC") Answer: means a person
holding a current license issued pursuant to the provision of the
Professional Counselor Licensure Act.
◉ "Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate" ("Candidate") Answer:
means a person whose application for licensure has been accepted and
who is under supervision for licensure as provided in 59 O.S. §1906.
◉ "Licensure Committee" Answer: means two LPC Board members, the
Executive Director, and may include other appropriate individuals as
determined by the Committee.
◉ "OAC" Answer: means the Oklahoma Administrative Code.
◉ "On-site supervisor" Answer: means a person who may not be an
approved LPC supervisor but is licensed by the state of Oklahoma as a
Licensed Marital and Family Therapist, Licensed Professional
Counselor, Licensed Behavioral Practitioner, Psychologist, Clinical
Social Worker, Psychiatrist, or Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor
employed by the agency employing the LPC Candidate whose assigned
job duties include acting as the immediate supervisor to the LPC
Candidate and who is available to the candidate at all times when
counseling services are being rendered by the LPC Candidate.