Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 172 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE › Chapter 94 - INDEPENDENT MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS, MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS, PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS, AND SOCIAL WORKERS › Section 172-94-007 - EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

Current through June 17, 2024
If the educational program is not accredited by one of the
				  organizations set out in Neb. Rev. Stat. §
									38-2104,
				  the applicant must provide evidence that the program meets the following
				  requirements:
007.01
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY.
A program that meets
				substantially equivalent educational requirements as adopted by Commission on
				Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education.
007.02
MENTAL HEALTH
				PRATICE.
To be approved as equivalent to an approved mental health
				program, a program must meet the following:
(A) Be at least 60 semester hours in
				duration. If the master's degree is less than 60 semester hours, additional
				hours can be attained outside of the program to equal 60 semester hours. Any
				additional hours must be graduate hours and have a mental health focus to be
				considered as substantially equivalent.
(B) Have a mental health focused supervised
				practicum or internship that included a minimum of 300 clock hours of direct
				client contact under the supervision of a qualified supervisor as defined in
				172 NAC
				94-008 of these regulations. Any
				artificial situation where a person presents a problem, such as role playing,
				is not direct client contact. The program must have an emphasis on mental
				health practice and include coursework in theories and techniques, professional
				ethics, assessment techniques, human growth and development, and research and
				evaluation. Two years after the effective date of these regulations the
				coursework must also include social and cultural diversity. No course may be
				used to fulfill more than 1 coursework area. The coursework must meet the
				following requirements:
(i) A minimum of 6
				semester hours or 9 quarter hours in theories and techniques. Two years after
				the effective date of these regulations, the coursework must include a minimum
				of at least 9 semester hours or 12 quarter hours in theories and techniques.
				The course must focus on therapeutic techniques and strategies for human
				behavioral intervention. Therapeutic techniques and strategies may include the
				study of major contributions of biological, behavioral, cognitive, and social
				sciences relevant to understanding assessment and treatment of a person and his
				or environment with an emphases on the social systems framework, personality
				theories and development through the life cycle and application of those during
				therapy.
(ii) A minimum of 3
				semester hours or
				4.5 quarter hours in professional
				ethics. The course must focus on the application of ethical and legal issues to
				the practice. Ethical and legal issues may include family law, codes of ethics,
				boundaries, peer review, record keeping, confidentiality, informed consent, and
				duty to warn.
(iii) A minimum of 3
				semester hours or
				4.5 quarter hours in assessment
				techniques. The course must focus on the process of collecting pertinent data
				about a client or client systems and their environment and appraising the data
				as a basis for making decisions regarding treatment or referral or both.
				Assessment techniques may include the ability to make a clinical diagnostic
				impression, knowledge of psychopathology, and assessment of substance abuse and
				other addictions.
(iv) A minimum of
				3 semester hours or
				4.5 quarter hours in human growth and
				development. The course must focus on studies that provide an understanding of
				the nature and needs of individuals at all developmental levels. Human growth
				and development may include theories of individual and family development and
				transitions across the life-span; theories of learning and personality
				development; human behavior including an understanding of developmental crises,
				disability, exceptional behavior, addictive behavior, psychopathology, and
				situational and environmental factors that affect both normal and abnormal
				behavior; and strategies for facilitating optimum development over the
				life-span.
(v) A minimum of 3
				semester hours or
				4.5 quarter hours in research and
				evaluation. Research and evaluation includes statistics or research design and
				development of research and demonstration proposals.
(vi) Two years after the effective date of
				these regulations, in addition to the above coursework, a minimum of 3 semester
				hours or
				4.5 quarter hours in social and
				cultural diversity. The course must focus on studies that provide an
				understanding of the cultural context of relationships, and issues and trends
				in a multicultural and diverse society. Social and cultural diversity may
				include multicultural and pluralistic trends, including characteristics and
				concerns between and within diverse groups nationally and internationally;
				attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and acculturative experiences, including
				specific experiential learning activities; individual, couple, family, group,
				and community strategies for working with diverse populations and ethnic
				groups; counselors' roles in social justice, advocacy and conflict resolution,
				cultural self-awareness, the nature of biases, prejudices, processes of
				intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination, and other
				culturally supported behaviors that are detrimental to the growth of the human
				spirit, mind, or body; theories of multicultural counseling, theories of
				identity development, and multicultural competencies.
(C) Graduate programs accepting an
				undergraduate course as meeting the course criteria set out in 172 NAC
				94-007.02(B)(i) through
				(vi) are acceptable if the course was used to
				meet the requirements for the master's degree. The applicant must have the
				school submit a notarized letter, on institutional letterhead, from an
				authorized person stating the undergraduate course(s) was accepted to meet the
				educational requirement(s) of the master's degree.