Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 195a - Marital and Family Therapists › Section 20-195a-2 - Graduate degree programs

Current through July 10, 2024
A graduate degree program specializing in marital and family
				therapy shall be a graduate degree program satisfying all the criteria
				specified below, as evidenced by acceptable documentation:
(a) The program, wherever it may be
			 administratively housed, shall be clearly identified and labeled as a marital
			 and family therapy program with the intent to educate and train professional
			 marital and family therapists.
(b)
			 The program shall stand as a recognizable, coherent organizational entity
			 within the institution, which institution shall have recognized and established
			 an organizational structure, curriculum, administration, and faculty for the
			 marital and family therapy program.
(c) Marital and family therapists shall have
			 clear authority and primary responsibility for the core and specialty areas
			 within the program. Acceptable documentation shall clearly identify a marital
			 and family therapist or marital and family therapists responsible for core and
			 specialty areas within the program. When the professional identification of the
			 responsible individual(s) is in question, acceptable evidence of professional
			 identification shall be submitted to the Department.
(d) The program shall be an organized,
			 integrated sequence of required study designed and taught by the faculty
			 responsible for the graduate program. Acceptable documentation shall clearly
			 identify specific educational objectives and an organized, sequenced plan for
			 meeting these objectives. Said objectives and plan must be designed and taught
			 by faculty of the program. The requirements of this subsection shall not be
			 satisfied when a program permits educational objectives to be met solely by the
			 completion of a specified number of course credits, examinations, independent
			 study experiences, or hours of work experience.
(e) The program shall have an identifiable
			 core of full-time marital and family therapy faculty. Acceptable documentation
			 shall clearly identify a core of marital and family therapists serving as
			 full-time faculty for the program. When the professional identification of the
			 faculty is in question, acceptable evidence of professional identification
			 shall be submitted to the Department.
(f) The program shall have a body of students
			 who are matriculated in that program for a graduate degree specializing in
			 marital and family therapy.
(g) An
			 applicant for marital and family therapy licensure shall demonstrate by
			 acceptable evidence of applicant coursework that he has completed a course of
			 study which encompassed a minimum of two academic years of full-time graduate
			 study, or its equivalent, in marital and family therapy, including a minimum of
			 one academic year of full-time graduate study, or its equivalent, in marital
			 and family therapy completed at the institution granting the graduate
			 degree.
(h) An applicant for
			 marital and family therapy licensure shall demonstrate that the content of his
			 graduate degree program specialized in marital and family therapy by acceptable
			 evidence of applicant coursework indicating completion of a curriculum which
			 provided not less than:
(1) a total of 45
			 semester hours, or its equivalent, of coursework in the degree
			 program;
(2) six (6) semester
			 hours, or its equivalent, of classroom instruction in the theoretical
			 foundations of Marital and Family Systems;
(3) six (6) semester hours, or its
			 equivalent, of classroom instruction in the theories and practices of Marital
			 and Family Therapy, including diagnosis assessment and treatment
			 processes;
(4) six (6) semester
			 hours, or its equivalent, of classroom instruction in Individual Development
			 including, but not necessarily limited to, life-span human development,
			 personality theory, psychopathology, or human sexuality;
(5) a total of 27 semester hours, or its
			 equivalent, of classroom instruction in the content areas specified in (2),
			 (3), and (4) combined;
(6) three
			 (3) semester hours, or its equivalent, of classroom instruction in Professional
			 Ethics and Standards, including but not necessarily limited to professional
			 socialization, legal responsibilities and liabilities, ethics and family law,
			 licensure or certification laws, confidentiality, independent practice and
			 interprofessional cooperation;
(7)
			 three (3) semester hours, or its equivalent, of classroom instruction in
			 Research Methodology including, but not necessarily limited to, research
			 design, statistical analysis, computer applications, or critical appraisal of
			 published research; and
(8) one (1)
			 calendar year of Supervised Clinical Practice in marital and family therapy,
			 including a minimum of 500 supervised clock hours of direct face-to-face client
			 contact.