As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means the board of social work examiners.
2. "Licensed social worker" or "licensee" means a person licensed to practice social work.
3. "Practice of licensed social work" means the professional activity of licensed social workers which is directed at enhancing, protecting, or restoring people's capacity for social functioning and includes the application of social work methods and values in evaluating personal and family problems and relationships, assisting persons and families with adjustment problems and reaching appropriate decisions about their lives, and counseling emotionally distressed individuals and families.
4. "Private practice of licensed social work" means the autonomous professional activity of a licensed social worker which is not under the auspices of a public or private nonprofit corporation.
84 Acts, ch 1075, § 1
Iowa General Assembly
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