[§467E-1] Definitions. As used in this chapter:
"Department" means the department of commerce and consumer affairs.
"Director" means the director of commerce and consumer affairs.
"Exempt government employee" means an employee in a social worker position with any federal, state, or county government agency.
"Practice of social work" means applying the formal knowledge base, theoretical concepts, specific functional skills, and essential social values that are used to effect change in human behavior, emotional responses, and social conditions, and helping individuals, couples, families, groups, and community organizations enhance or restore their capacities for personal and social functioning and preventing and controlling social problems. Social work practice is the professional application of social work values, principles, and techniques in the following areas:
(1) Information, resource identification and development, and referral services;
(2) Preparation and evaluation of psychosocial assessments and development of social work service plans;
(3) Case management, coordination, and monitoring of social work service plans in the areas of personal, social, or economic resources, conditions, or problems;
(4) Administration, development, implementation, and evaluation of social work programs and policies;
(5) Clinical diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychosocial dysfunction, disability, or impairment, including emotional and mental disorders;
(6) Social work consultation; or
(7) Research through the formal organization and methodology of data collection and the analysis and evaluation of social work data practice.
"Social worker" or "licensed social worker" means a person who:
(1) Uses the title of "social worker";
(2) Has met the licensing requirements set forth in this chapter; and
(3) Who engages in the practice of social work as defined in this section. [L 1994, c 251, pt of §2]