NRS640D.060. “Music therapy” defined.

  “Music therapy” means the clinical use of music interventions by a licensee to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed a music therapy program approved by the Board. The term does not include:

      1.  The practice of psychology or medicine;

      2.  The psychological assessment or treatment of couples or families;

      3.  The prescribing of drugs or electroconvulsive therapy;

      4.  The medical treatment of physical disease, injury or deformity;

      5.  The diagnosis or psychological treatment of a psychotic disorder;

      6.  The use of projective techniques in the assessment of personality;

      7.  The use of psychological, neuropsychological, psychometric assessment or clinical tests designed to identify or classify abnormal or pathological human behavior or to determine intelligence, personality, aptitude, interests or addictions;

      8.  The use of individually administered intelligence tests, academic achievement tests or neuropsychological tests;

      9.  The use of psychotherapy to treat the concomitants of organic illness;

      10.  The diagnosis of any physical or mental disorder; or

      11.  The evaluation of the effects of medical and psychotropic drugs.

      (Added to NRS by 2011, 1085)