Texas Occupations Code
§ 505.0025 — PRACTICE OF SOCIAL WORK
OC § 505.0025Title 3. HEALTH PROFESSIONS · Part I. REGULATION OF PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING · Ch. 505. SOCIAL WORKERS · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Statute text
View on source(a)The practice of social work is the application of social work theory, knowledge, methods, ethics, and the professional use of self to restore or enhance social, psychosocial, or biopsychosocial functioning of individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations, or communities.
(b)The practice of social work may include the provision of individual, conjoint, family, and group psychotherapy using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the International Classification of Diseases, and other diagnostic classification systems in assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and other activities by a person licensed under this chapter.
Legislative history
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 892, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.