MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 73-53-3. Definitions. [Repealed effective July 1, 2011].

As used in this chapter:

(a) "Board" means the Board of Examiners for Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists created under Section 73-53-8.

(b) "Social work practice" means the professional activity directed at enhancing, protecting or restoring people's capacity for social functioning, whether impaired by physical, environmental or emotional factors.

(c) "Clinical social work practice" means the application of social work methods and values in diagnosis and treatment directed at enhancing, protecting or restoring people's capacity for social functioning, whether impaired by physical, environmental or emotional factors.

(d) "Examination(s)" means that test or exam which is endorsed and prescribed by the American Association of State Social Work Boards.

SOURCES: Laws,  1987, ch. 421, § 2; Laws, 1997, ch. 516, § 23; reenacted without change, Laws, 1999, ch. 438, § 1; reenacted without change, Laws, 2001, ch. 421, § 1, SB 2287, eff from and after June 30, 2001.

PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2001


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