2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 640D - Music Therapists
NRS 640D.060 - Music therapy defined.

Music therapy means the clinical use of music interventions by a licensee to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed a music therapy program approved by the Board. The term does not include:

1. The practice of psychology or medicine;

2. The psychological assessment or treatment of couples or families;

3. The prescribing of drugs or electroconvulsive therapy;

4. The medical treatment of physical disease, injury or deformity;

5. The diagnosis or psychological treatment of a psychotic disorder;

6. The use of projective techniques in the assessment of personality;

7. The use of psychological, neuropsychological, psychometric assessment or clinical tests designed to identify or classify abnormal or pathological human behavior or to determine intelligence, personality, aptitude, interests or addictions;

8. The use of individually administered intelligence tests, academic achievement tests or neuropsychological tests;

9. The use of psychotherapy to treat the concomitants of organic illness;

10. The diagnosis of any physical or mental disorder; or

11. The evaluation of the effects of medical and psychotropic drugs.

(Added to NRS by 2011, 1085)