Idaho Administrative Code › Title IDAPA 24 - Occupational and Professional Licenses, Division of › Rule 24.15.01 - RULES OF THE IDAHO LICENSING BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS AND MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS › Section 24.15.01.150 - QUALIFICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR LICENSURE

Current through August 31, 2023
Licensure as a "professional counselor" is restricted to
				persons who have successfully completed the required examination and each of
				the following: (3-28-23)
01.
Graduate Program
. Possess a master's degree or higher, which
			 includes an educational specialist degree, that is primarily counseling in
			 nature, from an accredited university or college offering a graduate program in
			 counseling, provided that the program is either: (3-28-23)
a. Approved by the Council for Accreditation
			 of Counseling and Related Educational Programs; or (3-28-23)
b. A counseling program of at least sixty
			 (60) semester hours or ninety (90) quarter hours in length and that at a
			 minimum includes successful completion of one (1) graduate level course unique
			 to the eight (8) areas and an advanced counseling practicum as follows:
			 (3-28-23)
i. Human growth and development:
			 Includes studies that provide a broad understanding of the nature and needs of
			 individuals at all developmental levels. Emphasis is placed on psychological,
			 sociological, and physiological approaches. Also included are areas such as
			 human behavior (normal and abnormal), personality theory, and learning theory.
			 (3-28-23)
ii. Social and cultural
			 foundations: Includes studies of change, ethnic groups, subcultures, changing
			 roles of women, sexism, urban and rural societies, population patterns,
			 cultural mores, use of leisure time, and differing life patterns.
			 (3-28-23)
iii. The helping
			 relationship: Includes philosophic bases of the helping relationship:
			 Consultation theory and/or an emphasis on the development of counselor and
			 client (or consultee) self-awareness and selfunderstanding. (3-28-23)
iv. Groups: Includes theory and types of
			 groups, as well as descriptions of group practices, methods dynamics, and
			 facilitative skills. It includes either a supervised practice and/or a group
			 experience. (3-28-23)
v. Life-style
			 and career development: Includes areas such as vocational-choice theory,
			 relationship between career choice and life-style, sources of occupational and
			 educational information, approaches to career decision-making processes, and
			 career-development exploration techniques. (3-28-23)
vi. Appraisal of the individual: Includes the
			 development of a framework for understanding the individual, including methods
			 of data gathering and interpretation, individual and group testing, case-study
			 approaches and the study of individual differences. Ethnic, cultural, and sex
			 factors are also considered. (3-28-23)
vii. Research and evaluation: Includes areas
			 such as statistics, research design, and development of research and
			 demonstration proposals. It also includes understanding legislation relating to
			 the development of research, program development, and demonstration proposals,
			 as well as the development and evaluation of program objectives.
			 (3-28-23)
viii. Professional
			 orientation: Includes goals and objectives of professional counseling
			 organizations, codes of ethics, legal consideration, standards of preparation,
			 certification, and licensing and role of identity of counselors.
			 (3-28-23)
ix. Advanced counseling
			 practicum: Complete at least two (2) semester courses of an advanced counseling
			 practicum taken at the graduate school level, provided that the applicant
			 completed a total of two hundred eighty hours (280) of direct client contact
			 that is supervised at the ratio of at least one (1) hour of one-to-one
			 supervision for every ten (10) hours of experience in the setting. An applicant
			 may complete one (1) supplemental practicum hour for every hour in which the
			 practicum was deficient and that meets the requirements of Subsection
			 230.02 of these rules.
			 (3-28-23)