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5 For the purposes of paragraph "f" subsection 2, a
6 former patient or client is presumed to be emotionally
7 dependent for one year following the termination of
8 the provision of mental health services.
9 c. "Former patient or client" means a person who
10 received mental health services from the counselor or
11 therapist.
12 d. "Mental health service" means the treatment,
13 assessment, or counseling of another person for a
14 cognitive, behavioral, emotional, mental, or social
15 dysfunction, including an intrapersonal or
16 interpersonal dysfunction.
17 e. "Patient or client" means a person who receives
18 mental health services from the counselor or
19 therapist.
20 f. "School employee" means a practitioner as
21 defined in section 272.1.
22 g. "Student" means a person who is currently
23 enrolled in or attending a public or nonpublic
24 elementary or secondary school, or who was a student
25 enrolled in or attended a public or nonpublic
26 elementary or secondary school within thirty days of
27 any violation of subsection 3.
28 f. 2. "Sexual Sexual exploitation by a counse lor
29 or therapist" therapist occurs when any of the
30 following are found:
31 (1) a. A pattern or practice or scheme of conduct
32 to engage in any of the conduct described in
33 subparagraph (2) or (3) paragraph "b" or "c".
34 (2) b. Any sexual conduct, with an emotionally
35 dependent patient or client or emotionally dependent
36 former patient or client for the purpose of arousing
37 or satisfying the sexual desires of the counselor or
38 therapist or the emotionally dependent patient or
39 client or emotionally dependent former patient or
40 client, which includes but is not limited to the
41 following: kissing; touching of the clothed or
42 unclothed inner thigh, breast, groin, buttock, anus,
43 pubes, or genitals; or a sex act as defined in section
44 702.17.
45 (3) c. Any sexual conduct with a patient or client
46 or former patient or client within one year of the
47 termination of the provision of mental health services
48 by the counselor or therapist for the purpose of
49 arousing or satisfying the sexual desires of the
50 counselor or therapist or the patient or client or
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1 former patient or client which includes but is not
2 limited to the following: kissing; touching of the
3 clothed or unclothed inner thigh, breast, groin,
4 buttock, anus, pubes, or genitals; or a sex act as
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