Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 201 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT CABINET › Chapter 34 - Board of Licensure for Professional Art Therapists › Section 201 KAR 34:010 - Licensure of professional art therapists

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				309.1315(5),
				309.133
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				309.1315(1) requires the
				board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the provisions of
				KRS
				309.130 to
				309.1399. This
				administrative regulation establishes the requirements for licensure of
				professional art therapists.
Section
			 1.
(1) Proof of certification or
			 registration with the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. shall be accepted as
			 evidence that the applicant has met the educational and experiential
			 requirements for licensure as set forth in
			 KRS
			 309.133(1).
(2) Supervision shall be considered
			 appropriate if:
(a) For group supervision it:
1. Is provided by an approved supervisor to
			 an individual or a group not exceeding six (6) individuals;
2. Enhances the professional development of a
			 supervisee in the provision of professional art therapy services; and
3. Is equally distributed throughout the
			 period of supervision; and
(b) For individual supervision, it consists
			 of case consultation between the supervisor and the supervisee that is
			 restricted to the supervisee's cases.
(3) An approved supervisor shall be licensed
			 as a professional art therapist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky with a minimum
			 of four (4) years of experience in the practice of art therapy.
(4) To identify a license holder as a
			 licensed professional art therapist, a licensed professional art therapist may
			 use "LPAT".
(5) To qualify, an
			 internship experience shall have been an internship in the field of art
			 therapy.
(6) To qualify, a
			 trainee's postgraduate experience shall have been the practice of art therapy
			 after completion of and receipt of the qualifying degree pursuant to
			 KRS
			 309.133.
(7)
(a) The
			 practice of art therapy shall include the rendering to individuals, families,
			 or groups, services that use art media and verbalization as a means of
			 expression and communication to promote perceptive, intuitive, affective and
			 expressive experiences that:
1. Alleviate
			 distress, reduce physical, emotional, behavioral, and social impairment;
			 and
2. Lead to growth or
			 reintegration of one's personality.
(b) Art therapy services shall include:
1. Assessment and evaluation;
2. Development of treatment plans, goals and
			 objectives;
3. Case management
			 services; and
4. Therapeutic verbal
			 and visual treatment.
(8) "Twenty-one (21) semester hours of
			 sequential course work in the history, theory, and practice of art therapy"
			 shall include completion of the following:
(a) A minimum of twenty-one (21) semester
			 hours, thirty-one (31) quarter hours, or 315 clock hours in art therapy courses
			 from an accredited institution as defined in
			 KRS
			 309.130(5);
(b) The required core curriculum shall
			 include the following components:
1. History
			 of art therapy;
2. Theory of art
			 therapy;
3. Techniques of practice
			 in art therapy;
4. The application
			 of art therapy with people in different treatment settings;
5. Psychopathology;
6. Assessment of patients and diagnostic
			 categories;
7. Ethical and legal
			 issues of art therapy practice;
8.
			 Standards of good practice in art therapy; and
9. Matters of cultural diversity bearing on
			 the practice of art therapy.