Section 12 AAC 19.990 - DefinitionsIn this chapter and in AS 08.63,
(1) "board" means the Board of Marital and Family Therapy;(2) "department" means the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development;(3) "year of practice" means 12 months of active, clinical practice of marital and family therapy totaling at least 500 hours.(4) "one year of supervised clinical practice" means one academic year.(5) "asynchronous with regard to an interaction, means the transmission of a client's information from an originating site to a licensed martial and family therapist at a distant site not occurring at exactly the same time, no real time communication is present or able; (6)"distance professional services" means the mode of delivering services by means of technology-assisted media, such as telephone, video, internet, smartphone, tablet, personal computer(pc), desktop system or other electronic means using appropriate encryption technology for electronic health information occurring either synchronously or asynchronously as it pertains to marital and family therapy practices;(7) "distant site" means a site or location from which services are delivered by a licensee by means of technology-assisted media(8) "originating site" means a site where a client is located at the time that marital and family therapy services are provided by means of technology-assisted media or where the asynchronous storage and forwarding services originate; (9) "synchronous," with regard to as interaction, means a real-time interaction between a client and a licensed marital and family therapist occurring at exactly the same time, during which the client and therapist are able to communicate in realtime.Eff. 10/1/93, Register 127; am 4/24/2016, Register 218, July 2016; am 6/22/2019, Register 230, May 2019