| (a) An applicant who holds a graduate degree in a mental
health-related field must have course work in each of the following
areas:
(1) theoretical foundations of marriage and family
therapy--three semester hours;
(2) assessment and treatment in marriage and family
therapy--12 semester hours;
(3) human development, gender, multicultural issues
and family studies--six semester hours;
(4) psychopathology--three semester hours;
(5) professional ethics--three semester hours;
(6) applied professional research--three semester hours;
and
(7) supervised clinical internship--12 months or nine
semester hours.
(b) An applicant who begins a graduate degree program
in marriage and family therapy or a mental health-related field on
or after August 1, 2017, must complete course work and the minimum
required semester hours in each of the following areas (the earliest
class reported on one of an applicant's official transcripts denotes
the start of a program):
(1) theoretical knowledge and foundations of marriage
and family therapy--three semester hours--including the historical
development, theoretical and empirical foundations, and contemporary
conceptual directions of the field of marriage and family therapy;
(2) assessment and treatment in marriage and family
therapy--12 semester hours--including but is not limited to treatment
approaches specifically designed for use with a wide range of diverse
couples, families, and children, including sex therapy, same sex couples,
young children, adolescents, interfaith couples, crisis intervention,
and elderly;
(3) human development, gender, multicultural issues
and family studies--six semester hours;
(4) psychopathology--three semester hours--including
traditional psycho-diagnostic categories including knowledge and use
of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders;
(5) professional ethics--three semester hours--including
professional identity of the marriage, couple, and family therapist,
including professional socialization, scope of practice, professional
organizations, licensure and certification; and ethical issues related
to the profession of marriage, couple, and family therapy as well
as the practice of individual therapy;
(6) applied professional research--three semester hours--including
research evidence related to MFT, becoming an informed consumer of
research, and research and evaluation methods;
(7) treatment of addictions and management of crisis
situations--no minimum requirements;
(8) supervised clinical internship--12 months or nine
semester hours. During the supervised clinical internship, the applicant
must have 300 hours of experience, of which:
(A) at least 150 hours must be direct client contact
hours; and
(B) of the 150 direct client contact hours, at least
75 hours must be direct client contact with couples and families.
(c) The remaining courses needed to meet the 45 or
60 graduate semester hour requirement must be marriage and family
therapy or related course work in areas directly supporting the development
of an applicant's professional marriage and family, individual, or
group therapy skills.
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