N.Y. Education Law § 8401: Definitions

§ 8401. Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms

shall have the following meanings:

1. "Board" means the state board for mental health practitioners

authorized by section eighty-four hundred six of this article.

2. "Psychotherapy" means the treatment of mental, nervous, emotional,

behavioral and addictive disorders, and ailments by the use of both

verbal and behavioral methods of intervention in interpersonal

relationships with the intent of assisting the persons to modify

attitudes, thinking, affect, and behavior which are intellectually,

socially and emotionally maladaptive.

3. "Diagnosis" means the process of distinguishing, beyond a general

assessment, between similar mental, emotional, behavioral,

developmental, and addictive disorders, impairments, and disabilities

within a psychosocial framework on the basis of their similar and unique

characteristics consistent with accepted classification systems.

4. "Development of assessment-based treatment plans" means the

development of an integrated plan of prioritized interventions, that is

based on the diagnosis and psychosocial assessment of the client, to

address mental, emotional, behavioral, developmental, and addictive

disorders, impairments, and disabilities.