Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part LX - Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners › Subpart 2 - Professional Standards for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists and Provisional Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists › Chapter 35 - Renewal of License for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists › Section LX-3503 - Continuing Education Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. General Guidelines
1. A licensee must accrue 40 clock hours of
				  continuing education by every renewal period every two years.
2. One continuing education unit (CEU) is
				  equivalent to one clock hour.
3.
				  Accrual of continuing education begins only after the date the license was
				  issued.
4. Continuing education
				  hours accrued beyond the required 40 clock hours may not be applied toward the
				  next renewal period. Renewal periods run from January 1 to December
				  31.
5. The licensee is responsible
				  for keeping a personal record of his/her continuing education hours until
				  official notification of renewal is received. Licensees should not forward
				  documentation of CEHs to the board office as they are accrued.
6. At the time of renewal 10 percent of the
				  licensees will be audited to ensure that the continuing education requirement
				  is being met. Licensees audited will be requested by letter to submit
				  documentation as specified in
				  §3503.
				  B of their continuing education
				  hours.
7. Licensees will be asked
				  in the renewal application to note any changes in areas of expertise. The
				  advisory committee, at its discretion, may require the licensee to present
				  satisfactory documentation supporting these changes.
8. A licensee must accrue three clock hours
				  of training in ethics that specifically addresses ethics for licensed marriage
				  and family therapy as defined in Subparagraph C.3.e every renewal period. A
				  generic ethics class will not be acceptable.
9. A licensee must accrue six clock hours of
				  training in diagnosis every renewal period that specifically addresses the
				  assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of clinical conditions under the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
, Fifth
				  Edition (DSM-5), as published by the American Psychiatric Association on May
				  18, 2013. This required training may be specific to the diagnosis, assessment,
				  and treatment of a particular condition and/or may be general training in
				  diagnosis, assessment, and treatment under the
Diagnostic and
				  Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), as
				  published on May 18, 2013
10. Those
				  licensed marriage and family therapists who hold another license that requires
				  continuing education hours may count the continuing education hours obtained
				  for that license toward their LMFT CEH requirements. Of the 40 CEHs submitted,
				  however, 20 hours must be in the area of marriage and family therapy with an
				  emphasis upon systemic approaches or the theory, research, or practice of
				  systemic psychotherapeutic work with couples or families including three clock
				  hours of ethics specific to marriage and family therapy and six clock hours
				  specific to diagnosis.
11. The
				  approval of and requirements for continuing education are specified in
				  Subsection C.