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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="17-6A-01" title_number="17" title_name="Professional Counselors and Therapists" subtitle_number="6A" subtitle_name="Behavior Analysts">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Committee” means the Behavior Analyst Advisory Committee established under § 17–6A–05 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“License” means a license issued by the Board to practice behavior analysis.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Licensed behavior analyst” means an individual who is licensed by the Board to practice behavior analysis.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Licensee” means a licensed behavior analyst.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Practice of behavior analysis” means the design, implementation, and evaluation of systematic instructional and environmental modifications to produce socially significant improvements in human behavior.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Practice of behavior analysis” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The empirical identification of functional relations between behavior and environmental factors, known as functional assessment and analysis; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Interventions based on scientific research and the direct observation and measurement of behavior and environment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Practice of behavior analysis” does not include psychological testing, diagnosis of a mental or physical disorder, neuropsychology, psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, sex therapy, psychoanalysis, hypnotherapy, counseling, or any subdiscipline of psychology as treatment modalities.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
