Thursday, July 24, 2008
 

 AMFTRB Clearing House Questionnaire 
 Deadline for submission: August 23, 2008
* For items 4, 11, 17, 22a, 22b, 28, & 30 you are asked to provide relevant documents rather than trying to write out your responses or copying and pasting large blocks of text into a memo field. Only MS Word documents (.doc), Rich Text Files (.rtf), and Portable Document Format (.pdf) files are permitted.

Please include your state in the file name (e.g., If your state is Colorado: COLORADO_myFile.doc or CO_myFile.doc). If you prefer, you may send your documents to the AMFTRB Executive Director via conventional mail.

State Information
First Name:
State Delegate
Alternate Delegate
Other
Last Name:
State:
I. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE
1. Does your state accept online course work from accredited programs as part of the qualifying degree towards licensure? Yes   No
  1. If yes, what percent of the degree can be earned online?
2. Are distance learning, online or Internet courses from accredited programs accepted for:

 
  • Post-degree supervision requirements?
    		•  Yes   No
  • If yes, what %
    		•
  • Post degree required client experience hours?
    		•  Yes   No
  • If yes, what %
    		•
    3. Does your state require a criminal background check for candidates applying for licensure?
    		 Yes   No
    4. Does your state have multiple levels of licensing in MFT? Yes   No
    1. If yes, what is the title(s) of the other level(s)?

    Please provide a copy of the requirements.

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    Enter file name only, please do not copy and paste information here. Please include your state in the file name (e.g., If your state is Colorado: COLORADO_myFile.doc or CO_myFile.doc).
    5. How many hours of post-degree/qualifying-degree experience hours are required for licensure in your state?
    1. How many hours of supervision experience are required for those experience hours?
    1. How many hours of direct face-to-face client contact hours are required?
    1. How does your board define a "client hour?"
    6. Does your state require coursework for licensure in
    1. psychopharmacology?
    		 Yes   No
    1. family law?
    		 Yes   No
    7. Does your state have any other requirement for candidates for licensure or renewing licenses (e.g., jurisprudence workshop, exam on state laws and regulations)?
    		Yes   No
    1. If yes, what are the other requirements that your state has? Please include the format (written, oral, open book, etc.)


    II. EXAMINATION
    8. Does your state accept the California MFT examination as equivalent to the AMFTRB National MFT examination?
    		 Yes   No
    9. Does your state require an oral examination?
    		 Yes   No
    10. When do you allow a candidate to sit for the examination?(Check all that apply)
    		  
    1. After meeting all licensing requirements of academic, experience and supervision hours
    		 Yes
    1. During post-graduate supervision experience?
    		Yes
    1. After receiving their degree?
    		Yes
    1. Before confirmation of graduate degree?
    		Yes
    11. Does your state have a written or unwritten policy regarding cheating and/or stealing answers from the licensing examination? Yes   No
    1. If yes, please provide a copy of the policy.
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    Enter file name only, please do not copy and paste information here. Please include your state in the file name (e.g., If your state is Colorado: COLORADO_myFile.doc or CO_myFile.doc).

    12. Has your state had an experience with cheating or stealing from the MFT national examination?

    		 Yes   No
    13. Does your state release candidate scores to anyone besides directly to the candidate (e.g., to training programs in the state)? Yes   No
    1. If so, to whom?
    1. If so, does the state have a waiver of confidentiality from the candidate if the candidates name is provided?
    		 Yes   No
    1. What information, if any, does your board release about candidates passing or failing the examination?
    1. Does the candidate sign a release form to approve the release of this information?
    		 Yes   No
    14. Does your board accept the recommended passing score on the national exam? Yes   No
    1. If no, what is the passing score that you utilize?
    15. Is your board required to seek legislative approval for examination fee increases? Yes   No
    1. Can examination fee increases be handled with a rule change?
    		 Yes   No
    16. Should AMFTRB develop a second examination? (Check all that apply) Yes   No
    1. Basic knowledge for beginning practitioners?
    		 Yes
    1. Advanced competency issues for clinicians?
    		 Yes
    1. For LMFT renewal of licenses?
    		 Yes
    1. On supervision/Supervisor skills?
    		 Yes
    III. SUPERVISION
    17. Are supervisors of candidates seeking licensure, licensed in your state? Yes   No
    1. If yes, please provide the supervisor licensing requirements.
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    Enter file name only, please do not copy and paste information here. Please include your state in the file name (e.g., If your state is Colorado: COLORADO_myFile.doc or CO_myFile.doc).
    18. Does your state require AAMFT Approved Supervisors to provide the supervision for those seeking licensure?
    		 Yes   No
    IV. LICENSE RENEWAL
    19. Does your state require continuing competency and/or Continuing Education hours (CEUs) for renewal of licenses?
    		 Yes   No
    1. Are a certain number of hours required per year ?
    		 Yes   No
    1. Are there mandated topics like experience or education in ethics, psychopharmacology, family law etc.?
    		Yes   No
      1. If so, what topics?
    1. Are Internet courses or distance learning courses accepted to meet this requirement?
    		Yes   No

    20. Does your state have requirements for renewing licenses other than CEUs? (Example: Jurisprudence Workshop, exam on state laws and regulations?)

    		Yes   No
    1. If so, what are they?
    V. eTherapy
    21. Is eTherapy (Internet-based therapy) regulated in your state?
    		 Yes   No

    22. Do you have guidelines for eTherapy for

    		 
    1. consumers?
    Yes   No
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    1. therapists?
    Yes   No
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    23. How are consumer complaints regarding eTherapy handled?
    VI. DISCPLINARY ISSUES
    24. How are expenses paid for disciplinary investigation/action against licensees?
    25. Does your state board deal with complaints regarding custody evaluations and parenting plan coordinators?
    		 Yes   No
    26. Does your state notify AAMFT (or another professional organization) of completed disciplinary action against a clinician? Yes   No
    VII. GENERAL BOARD RULES, POLICIES AND PRACTICES
    27. Do your rules or regulations include the language "Diagnose and treat?" Yes   No
    28. Does your state board have record keeping rules? Yes   No
    1. If yes, please provide a copy.
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    Enter file name only, please do not copy and paste information here. Please include your state in the file name (e.g., If your state is Colorado: COLORADO_myFile.doc or CO_myFile.doc).
    29. Do your rules contain an ethics code? Yes   No
    1. If yes, which one?
    VIII. PORTABILITY
    30. Does your state accept licenses from other states by endorsement?
    		 Yes   No
    1. If yes, please provide a copy of your state’s standards for licensure by endorsement.
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    Thank you for your help in completing this questionnaire. Please feel free to provide additional comments. Or, if there are other questions that you would like asked of states, add those.

    Again, thank you for taking the time to complete this questionnaire.

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