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(v) supportive counseling and psychosocial education, including:
(A) providing individual and group support and psychosocial education related to behavioral
health literacy, wellness education and promotion, goal setting, life skills, and coping skills;
(B) providing evidence-based, manualized therapeutic interventions according to a treatment
plan approved by a mental health therapist, while under the supervision of a mental health
therapist, in the treatment of mild to moderate behavioral health symptoms or disorders,
as assessed or diagnosed by the mental health therapist; and
(C) co-facilitating group therapy with a mental health therapist;
(vi) information gathering;
(vii) making referrals, including crisis referrals;
(viii) engaging in advocacy;
(ix) care navigation; and
(x) the supervision and training of social work students of an accredited institution who are
seeking bachelor's degrees in social work, if the social service worker has two years of post-
licensure work experience.
(b) Except for the acts described in Subsection (1)(a)(v)(B), "practice as a social service worker"
does not include:
(i) diagnosing or treating mental illness; or
(ii) providing psychotherapeutic services to an individual, couple, family, group, or community.
(2) "Practice of clinical social work" includes:
(a) the practice of mental health therapy by observation, description, evaluation, interpretation,
intervention, and treatment to effect modification of behavior by the application of generally
recognized professional social work principles, methods, and procedures for the purpose of
preventing, treating, or eliminating mental or emotional illness or dysfunction, the symptoms
of any of these, or maladaptive behavior;
(b) the application of generally recognized psychotherapeutic and social work principles and
practices requiring the education, training, and clinical experience of a clinical social worker;
and
(c) supervision of the practice of a certified social worker or social service worker as the
supervision is required under this chapter and as further defined by division rule.
(3) "Practice of certified social work" includes:
(a) the supervised practice of mental health therapy by a clinical social worker by observation,
description, evaluation, interpretation, intervention, and treatment to effect modification
of behavior by the application of generally recognized professional social work principles,
methods, and procedures for the purpose of preventing, treating, or eliminating mental or
emotional illness or dysfunctions, the symptoms of any of these, or maladaptive behavior;
(b) the supervised or independent and unsupervised application of generally recognized
professional social work principles and practices requiring the education, training, and
experience of a certified social worker; and
(c) supervision of the practice of a social service worker as the supervision is required under this
chapter and as further defined by division rule.
(4) "Program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education" means a program that:
(a) was accredited by the Council on Social Work Education on the day on which the applicant
for licensure satisfactorily completed the program; or
(b) was in candidacy for accreditation by the Council on Social Work Education on the day on
which the applicant for licensure satisfactorily completed the program.