Illinois Code § 3

§ 3.

Definitions. The following words and phrases shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this Section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: 1. "Department" means the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. 2. "Secretary" means the Secretary of Financial and Professional Regulation. 3. "Board" means the Social Work Examining and Disciplinary Board. 4. "Licensed Clinical Social Worker" means a person who holds a license authorizing the independent practice of clinical social work in Illinois under the auspices of an employer or in private practice or under the auspices of public human service agencies or private, nonprofit agencies providing publicly sponsored human services. 5. "Clinical social work practice" means the providing of mental health services for the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of mental and emotional disorders in individuals, families, and groups based on knowledge and theory of professionally accepted theoretical structures, including, but not limited to, psychosocial development, behavior, psychopathology, unconscious motivation, interpersonal relationships, and environmental stress. 6. "Treatment procedures" means among other things, individual, marital, family, and group psychotherapy. 7. "Independent practice of clinical social work" means the application of clinical social work knowledge and skills by a licensed clinical social worker who regulates and the licensed clinical social worker is responsible for the licensed clinical social worker's own practice or treatment procedures. 8. "License" means that which is required to practice clinical social work or social work under this Act, the qualifications for which include specific education, acceptable experience, and examination requirements. 9. "Licensed social worker" means a person who holds a license authorizing the practice of social work, which includes social services to individuals, groups or communities in any one or more of the fields of social casework, social group work, community organization for social welfare, social work research, social welfare administration, or social work education. Social casework and social group work may also include clinical social work, as long as it is not conducted in an independent practice, as defined in this Section. 10. "Address of record" means the address recorded by the Department in the applicant's application file or the licensee's license file, as maintained by the Department's licensure maintenance unit. 11. "Email address of record" means the designated email address recorded by the Department in the applicant's application file or the licensee's license file, as maintained by the Department's licensure maintenance unit. (Source: P.A. 103-1048, eff. 1-1-25.)