1. (a) “Actively practicing” means the reliance upon an individual’s license or certification during the provision of services within a licensee’s or certificate holder’s scope of practice as described in RSA 330-C:10-13 or during supervised practical training.
2. (b) “Certified recovery support worker supervision” means an ongoing, regularly occurring process of examination, critique, and improvement of a peer recovery support worker’s skills within the 4 domains of recovery support work as stated in Alc 301.01(j) directed by the peer recovery support worker’s board-approved supervisor and is typically one-on-one or small group in structure and can be either direct or indirect observation of practice either in person or through secure electronic means.
3. (c) “Clinical supervision” means “clinical supervision” as defined in RSA 330-C:2, VI, namely, “an ongoing, regularly occurring process of examination, critique, and improvement of a counselor's skills, directed by the counselor's designated clinical supervisor, and is typically one-to-one or small group in structure, and utilizes the methods of intensive case review and discussion, and direct and indirect observation of clinical practice” either in person or through secure electronic means”.
4. (d) “Inactive status” means a board-approved period of time during which a licensee or certificate holder does not provide substance use services but wishes to preserve their license or certificate until such time as they petition the OPLC for a return to active status.
5. (e) “Independent practice” means the practice of substance use counseling that does not require supervision.
6. (f) “Peer collaboration” means “peer collaboration” as defined in RSA 330-C:2, XVII, namely, “ongoing regularly occurring clinical consultation with, or small group meetings among, MLADCs, LADCs or licensees of the board of nursing, the board of mental health practice, or the board of medicine, with expertise in substance use and co-occurring disorder counseling, at which clinical issues and/or cases are discussed”.
7. (g) “Practical training” means application of ideas and methods applied in real situations and events, rather than ideas or theories studied in written word, and obtained through both direct and indirect supervision.
8. (h) “Qualified service organization” means “qualified service organization” as defined by 42 CFR 2.11.

Source. #9199, EMERGENCY RULE, eff 7-1-08, EXPIRED: 12-28-08 New. #9356, eff 1-9-09; ss by #10273, eff 2-20-13; ss by #12548, eff 7-1-18; ss by #14045, eff 10-7-24