Ohio · statute · Ohio Rev. Code ch. 4757 · 48 active provisions
As used in this chapter: (A) "Practice of professional counseling" means rendering or offering to render to individuals, groups, organizations, or the general public a counseling service involving the application of clinical counseling principles, methods, or procedures to assist individuals in achieving more effective…
(A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section and section 4757.41 of the Revised Code: (1) No person shall engage in or claim to the public to be engaging in the practice of professional counseling for a fee, salary, or other consideration unless the person is currently licensed under this chapter as a license…
(A) There is hereby created the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board, consisting of twenty-one members. The governor shall appoint the members with the advice and consent of the senate. (1) Four members shall be individuals licensed under this chapter as licensed professional clinical couns…
Within the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board, there is hereby created the counselors professional standards committee, the social workers professional standards committee, the marriage and family therapist professional standards committee, the art therapist professional standards committ…
(A)(1) The counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall meet as a whole to discuss and review issues regarding personnel, budgetary matters, administration, and any other matter pertaining to the operation of the entire board. The board shall hold at least one regular meeting every three mont…
The counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall adopt a seal to authenticate its records and proceedings. Each of the board's professional standards committees shall use the seal to authenticate its records and proceedings.A statement, signed by the executive director of the board to which i…
The counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board and its professional standards committees shall not discriminate against any licensee, registrant, or applicant for a license or certificate of registration under this chapter because of the person's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disab…
(A) The counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board may adopt any rules necessary to carry out this chapter. (B) The board shall adopt rules that do all of the following: (1) Concern intervention for and treatment of any impaired person holding a license or certificate of registration issued under…
(A) As used in this section, "license" and "applicant for an initial license" have the same meanings as in section 4776.01 of the Revised Code, except that "license" as used in both of those terms refers to the types of authorizations otherwise issued or conferred under this chapter. (B) In addition to any other eligib…
The counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall establish a code of ethical practice for persons licensed under this chapter as licensed professional clinical counselors or licensed professional counselors. The board shall establish a code of ethical practice for persons licensed under this…
A person holding a license issued under this chapter who is engaged in a private individual practice, partnership, or group practice shall prominently display the license holder's fee schedule in the office or place where a major portion of the license holder's practice is conducted. The bottom of the first page of the…
The counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall prepare, cause to be prepared, or procure the use of, and grade, have graded, or procure the grading of, examinations to determine the competence of applicants for licensure under this chapter. The board may administer separate examinations to…
(A) A person seeking to be licensed under this chapter as a licensed professional clinical counselor or licensed professional counselor shall file with the counselors professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board a written application on a form prescribed by t…
The professional standards committees of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall review the applications of applicants for licensure or registration under this chapter who have received a post-secondary degree from an educational institution outside the United States. The committee r…
The professional standards committees of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall, by endorsement, issue the appropriate license, temporary license, or certificate of registration in accordance with Chapter 4796. of the Revised Code to an applicant if either of the following applies:…
On receipt of a notice pursuant to section 3123.43 of the Revised Code, the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall comply with sections 3123.41 to 3123.50 of the Revised Code and any applicable rules adopted under section 3123.63 of the Revised Code with respect to a license issued purs…
A person licensed under this chapter to practice as a licensed professional clinical counselor or a licensed professional counselor may diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, except that a licensed professional counselor may do so only under the supervision of a psychologist, psychiatrist, licensed professi…
(A) The counselors professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a license to practice as a licensed professional clinical counselor to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of t…
(A) The counselors professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a license as a licensed professional counselor to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of the Revised Code, and…
(A) The art therapy professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a license as an art therapist to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of the Revised Code, and meets the requir…
(A) A person licensed under this chapter to practice as an independent social worker or a social worker may diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, except that a social worker may do so only under the supervision of a psychologist, psychiatrist, licensed professional clinical counselor, independent marriage…
(A) The social workers professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a license as an independent social worker to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of the Revised Code, and m…
(A) The social workers professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a license as a social worker to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of the Revised Code, and meets the requ…
The social workers professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a certificate of registration as a social work assistant to each applicant who submits a properly completed application, pays the fee established under section 4757.31 of the Revised…
(A) The marriage and family therapist professional standards committee of the counselor, social worker, and marriage and family therapist board shall issue a license to practice as a marriage and family therapist to a person who has done all of the following: (1) Properly completed an application for the license;(2) Pa…