Okla. Admin. Code § 86:10-1-2
When used in this Chapter, the following words and/or terms shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
"Act" means the Licensed Professional Counselors Act, 59 O.S. §§ 1901 et seq., as amended.
"Administrative Procedures Act" ("APA") means Article I and/or Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act, 75 O.S. §§ 250 et seq.
"Applicant" means a person who has made a formal application with the Board.
"Approved LPC Supervisor" ("Supervisor") 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" means the State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure.
"Complainant" 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" 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.
"Direct Client Contact Hours" 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.
"Dual relationship" means a familial, social, financial, business, professional, close personal, sexual or other non-therapeutic 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.
"Employee" means in accordance with 26 U.S.C. § 3121 (d):
"Face-to-face learning" means the delivery of graduate coursework or continuing education through instruction that is designed to deliver education to learners who are in the direct physical presence of the educator or designed to deliver education to learners through synchronous instructional delivery methods.
"Face-to-face supervision" means the Supervisor and the Candidate shall be in the physical presence of the other during individual or group supervision.
"Forensic services" 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" 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.
"Full time" means at least five (5) hours of on-the-job experience per week.
"Group supervision" means an assemblage of two (2) to six (6) Candidates.
"Home-study" or "technology-assisted distance learning" means the delivery of graduate coursework or continuing education through mailed correspondence or other distance learning technologies, which focuses on using asynchronous instructional delivery methods.
"Licensed Professional Counselor" ("LPC") means a person holding a current license issued pursuant to the provision of the Professional Counselor Licensure Act.
"Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate" ("Candidate") 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" means two LPC Board members, the Executive Director, and may include other appropriate individuals as determined by the Committee.
"OAC" means the Oklahoma Administrative Code.
"On-the-job experience" means the performance of counseling activities as described in Section 1902 of the Act and 86:10-11-3 of the OAC and includes the application of mental health and developmental principles in order to facilitate human development and adjustment throughout the life span, prevent, diagnose or treat mental, emotional or behavioral disorders or associated distress which interfere with mental health; conduct assessments or diagnoses for the purpose of establishing treatment goals and objectives; plan, implement or evaluate treatment plans using counseling treatment interventions; the application of cognitive, affective, behavioral and systemic counseling strategies which include principles of development, wellness, and pathology that reflect a pluralistic society. Such interventions are specifically implemented in the context of a professional counseling relationship; interpreting or reporting scientific fact or theory in counseling to provide assistance in solving current or potential problems of individuals, groups or organizations; the evaluating of data to identify problems and to determine the advisability of referral to other specialists; and reporting, designing, conducting or consulting on research in counseling, planning, designing, conducting, and reporting research only in a manner as published in Section G., Research and Publication, of the American Counseling Association (ACA) Code of Ethics, approved by the ACA Governing Council, 2005. (OAC 86: 10-3-2(e)).
"On-site supervisor" 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.
"Request for Inquiry" ("RFI") means a written or oral statement of complaint from any person alleging possible violation(s) of the Act and/or Rules.
"Respondent" means the person against whom an Individual Proceeding is initiated.
"Semi-Annual" means every six (6) months.
"Staff" means the personnel of the Board.
"Technology-assisted supervision" refers to supervision that occurs through video teleconferencing, over secure internet connections, wherein a Supervisor and a Candidate are in separate physical locations.
Okla. Admin. Code § 86:10-1-2