Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 86 - State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure
Chapter 11 - Licensed Professional Counselors
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 86:11-1-2 - Definitions

When used in this Chapter, the following words or terms shall have the following meaning unless the context of the sentence requires another meaning:

"Act"means Title 59, Sections 1901 et seq. of the Oklahoma Statutes.

"Advisory board"means the Oklahoma Licensed Professional Counselor Advisory Board appointed by the State Board of Health.

"Approved LPC Supervisor"means an individual who is approved by the Department pursuant to Section 310:405-11-4 of this Chapter.

"Counselor"means a person licensed as a Licensed Professional Counselor pursuant to this Act.

"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.

"Face-to-face counseling"means the counselor and the client shall be in the physical presence of the other during counseling.

"Face-to-face supervision"means the supervisor and the supervisee 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.

"Full time"means at least twenty (20) hours of on-the-job experience per week.

"Group supervision"means an assemblage of counseling supervisee consisting of from two (2) to six (6) members.

"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 synchronous or asynchronous instructional delivery methods..

"OAC"means the Oklahoma Administrative Code.

"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.

Transferred from 310:405-1-2.1 by Laws 2013, c. 229, § 3(F), eff 11-1-13 (see Editor's Note at beginning of this Chapter)