“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 Division. The term does not include:

1. 1. The practice of psychology, behavioral health promotion and prevention or medicine;
2. 2. The psychological assessment or treatment of couples or families;
3. 3. The prescribing of drugs or electroconvulsive therapy;
4. 4. The medical treatment of physical disease, injury or deformity;
5. 5. The diagnosis or psychological treatment of a psychotic disorder;
6. 6. The use of projective techniques in the assessment of personality;
7. 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. 8. The use of individually administered intelligence tests, academic achievement tests or neuropsychological tests;
9. 9. The use of psychotherapy to treat the concomitants of organic illness;
10. 10. The diagnosis of any physical or mental disorder; or
11. 11. The evaluation of the effects of medical and psychotropic drugs.

(Added to NRS by 2011, 1085; A 2025, 2493, 3746)