8401 - Definitions. - New York Statutes

§ 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.