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2015 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 8 - THE PROFESSIONS
Article 163 - (8400 - 8412) MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS
8401 - Definitions.

NY Educ L § 8401 (2015) What's This?
 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.

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