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 33 - Requirements for Licensure and Provisional Licensure › Section LX-3311 - Coursework and Academic Supervision Requirements, for Options 2, 3, and 4

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. General
				  Requirements for Qualifying Coursework and Academic Supervision
1. Undergraduate level courses will not meet
				  academic requirements unless the applicant's official transcript clearly shows
				  that the course was given graduate credit.
2. Only coursework taken for credit and
				  receiving a passing grade will be accepted. Coursework taken outside of a
				  program of study for which a degree was granted must receive an "A," "B," or
				  "pass."
3. One course is defined as
				  three semester credits, four quarter credits, or 45 didactic contact hours in a
				  postgraduate training program.
4.
				  An applicant may not use a course for more than one of the seven coursework
				  areas described in Subsection B of this Section.
5. If titles of academic courses are not
				  self-explanatory, their content and relevance must be substantiated by the
				  applicant through course descriptions in official school catalogs, bulletins,
				  syllabi, or by other means approved by the advisory committee.
6. The burden is on the applicant to prove by
				  a preponderance of the evidence that the coursework is equivalent to the
				  requirements in Subsections A and B of this Section.
7. Degrees and coursework obtained at foreign
				  universities shall be acceptable only if determined to be equivalent as defined
				  in Subsections A and B of this Section as determined by the advisory
				  committee.
8. The applicant must
				  document that all required graduate and postgraduate coursework was presented
				  from a family systems perspective. Coursework will specify how marriage and
				  family therapists apply psychotherapeutic and family systems theories and
				  techniques in the delivery of professional psychotherapeutic services to
				  individuals, couples, families, and groups for the purpose of assessment,
				  treatment planning, and treatment of mental, intellectual, emotional, or
				  behavioral disorders and apply family systems theories, assessment, and
				  techniques in their professional consultation work with
				  organizations.
9. Up to 220 of the
				  required 500 hours of supervised direct client contact and 44 of the required
				  100 hours of face-to-face supervision not completed during a practicum and/or
				  internship during the completion of the qualifying degree program or
				  postgraduate training institute may be completed once an applicant is
				  provisionally licensed as a provisional licensed marriage and family therapist
				  and is under the supervision of an LMFT board-approved supervisor. These hours
				  shall be added to the required 1500 hours of supervised direct client contact
				  required for licensure.