Sec. 7. "Practice of marriage and family therapy" means a specialty that:
(1) uses an applied understanding of the dynamics of marital, relational, and family systems, and individual psychodynamics;
(2) uses counseling and psychotherapeutic techniques;
(3) provides a mental health diagnosis and treats mental and emotional conditions, resolves intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict, and changes perceptions, attitudes, and behavior, all within the context of family, marital, and relational systems, including the use of accepted evaluation classifications;
(4) uses individual, group, couple, sexual, family, and divorce therapy; and
(5) uses appraisal instruments that evaluate individual, marital, relational, communicational, parent and child, and family functioning that the marriage and family therapist is qualified to employ by virtue of the counselor's education, training, and experience.
As added by P.L.186-1990, SEC.9. Amended by P.L.147-1997, SEC.23; P.L.138-2021, SEC.4.