OLERE (Oklahoma Legal and Ethical
Responsibilities Examination) 2024
"Act" - ANSmeans the Licensed Professional Counselors Act, fifty nine O.S. §§ 1901 et seq., as
amended.
"Administrative Procedures Act" ("APA") - ANSmeans Article I and/or Article II of the
Administrative Procedures Act, seventy five O.S. §§ 250 et seq
"Applicant" - ANSmeans a person who has made a formal application with the Board.
"Approved LPC Supervisor" ("Supervisor") - ANSmeans an person who meets the qualifications
to come to be an authorized manager and is approved by using the Board pursuant to Section
86:10-eleven-four of this Chapter.
"Board" - ANSmeans the State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure.
"Complainant" - ANSmeans any person who files a Request for Inquiry towards a LPC,
Candidate, or someone who delivers licensed professional counseling offerings with out a
license.
"Complaint Committee" - ANSmeans one Board member who is a LPC, the Executive Director,
the Assistant Attorney General and might consist of different appropriate people as determined
via the Committee.
"Dual relationship" - ANSmeans a familial, social, financial, commercial enterprise, professional,
near personal, sexual or different nontherapeutic courting with a customer, or carrying out any
pastime with another individual that interferes or conflicts with the LPC's or LPC Candidate's
professional responsibility to a purchaser.
"Direct Client Contact Hours" - ANSmeans the overall performance of therapeutic or clinical
capabilities that consists of diagnosis, assessment and remedy of intellectual, emotional and
behavioral disorders based in most cases on verbal communications and intervention with, and
in the presence of, one or extra customers.
"Employee" - ANSmeans in accordance with 26 U.S.C. § 3121 (d): (A) Any officer of a company;
or (B) Any person who, below the same old not unusual regulation rules relevant in figuring out
the business enterprise-employee courting, has the reputation of employee.
,"Face-to-face supervision" - ANSmeans the Supervisor and the Candidate will be in the physical
presence of the alternative for the duration of individual or institution supervision.
"Forensic offerings" - ANSmeans the utility of expertise, schooling and experience from the
mental health field to the establishment of facts and/or the status quo of evidence in a
courtroom of regulation or ordered by a courtroom of regulation.
"Formal Complaint" - ANSmeans a written statement of alleged violation(s) of the Act and/or
Rules that is filed via the Assistant Attorney General. The Formal Complaint schedules an
Individual Proceeding before the Board according with seventy five O.S. §309.
"Counseling" - ANSmeans the application of intellectual fitness and developmental concepts
with a view to: a. Facilitate human development and adjustment at some stage in the lifestyles
span, b. Save you, diagnose or deal with mental, emotional or behavioral issues or associated
distress which intrude with intellectual fitness, c. Behavior tests or diagnoses for the purpose of
organising treatment dreams and goals, and d. Plan, put into effect or compare remedy plans
the usage of counseling remedy interventions;
"Full time" - ANSmeans at least twenty (20) hours of on-the-job revel in in keeping with week.
"Group supervision" - ANSmeans an assemblage of (2) to six (6) Candidates.
"Home-take a look at" or "generation-assisted distance getting to know" - ANSmeans the
transport of graduate coursework or continuing schooling through mailed correspondence or
different distance getting to know technologies, which focuses on the usage of synchronous or
asynchronous academic delivery strategies.
"Licensed Professional Counselor" ("LPC") - ANSmeans a person maintaining a current license
issued pursuant to the supply of the Professional Counselor Licensure Act.
"Licensed Professional Counselor Candidate" ("Candidate") - ANSmeans a person whose utility
for licensure has been widespread and who is below supervision for licensure as supplied in fifty
nine O.S. §1906.
"Licensure Committee" - ANSmeans two LPC Board contributors, the Executive Director, and
may consist of other appropriate individuals as determined by means of the Committee.
"OAC" - ANSmeans the Oklahoma Administrative Code.
"On-web page supervisor" - ANSmeans someone who might not be an accepted LPC
supervisor however is licensed via 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 hired with the aid
, of the organisation using the LPC Candidate whose assigned activity responsibilities consist of
appearing as the instant manager to the LPC Candidate and who's to be had to the candidate at
all times while counseling services are being rendered by way of the LPC Candidate.
"Request for Inquiry" ("RFI") - ANSmeans a written or oral statement of criticism from any
character alleging possible violation(s) of the Act and/or Rules.
"Respondent" - ANSmeans the man or woman towards whom an Individual Proceeding is
initiated.
"Staff" - ANSmeans the personnel of the Board
"Technology-assisted supervision" - ANSrefers to supervision that takes place thru video
teleconferencing, over cozy net connections, wherein a Supervisor and a Candidate are in
separate physical places.
"Counseling treatment interventions" - ANSmeans the software of cognitive, affective,
behavioral and systemic counseling strategies which include standards of improvement,
well-being, and pathology that mirror a pluralistic society. Such interventions are specially
implemented in the context of a professional counseling relationship
"Consulting" - ANSmeans decoding or reporting scientific fact or concept in counseling to offer
help in fixing current or capacity problems of people, agencies or companies
"Referral sports" - ANSmeans the evaluating of information to pick out problems and to decide
the advisability of referral to different specialists
"Research sports" - ANSmeans reporting, designing, undertaking or consulting on research in
counseling
"Specialty" - ANSmeans the designation of a subarea of counseling exercise this is identified via
a country wide certification enterprise or via the Board
"Supervisor" - ANSmeans a person who meets the requirements set up by way of the Board and
who's certified pursuant to the Licensed Professional Counselors Act
"Executive Director" - ANSmeans the Executive Director of the State Board of Behavioral Health
Licensure.
Exemptions - ANSThe Licensed Professional Counselors Act shall no longer be construed to
encompass the pastimes of the following experts appearing in the scope in their duties as such
specialists, nor shall the identify "Licensed Professional Counselor" or "LPC" be utilized by such
experts