Kan. Admin. Regs. § 102-5-4b - Application for licensure based on reciprocity
(a) Each
individual who wishes to be licensed as a marriage and family therapist or a
clinical marriage and family therapist based on reciprocity, as provided by
K.S.A.
65-6406 and amendments thereto, shall submit
an application for licensure in accordance with the provisions of this
regulation.
(b) Each applicant for
licensure as a marriage and family therapist shall request the application
forms for licensure by reciprocity from the board. Each applicant shall ensure
that the application materials are submitted to the board as follows:
(1) The applicant shall submit the completed
application form and shall submit payment in full of the application for a
license fee, as provided in K.A.R. 102-5-2.
(2) The applicant shall forward to the
licensing agency for the jurisdiction in which the applicant currently
licensed, certified, or registered as a marriage and family therapist a form
provided by the board on which the licensing agency is to provide the following
documentation:
(A) Verification that the
applicant currently holds a valid license, registration, or certification to
practice marriage and family therapy issued by the licensing agency;
(B) the date on which the applicant was
initially licensed, registered, or certified as a marriage and family therapist
by the licensing agency and a complete history of each subsequent renewal,
reinstatement, and lapse in licensure, registration, or certification. If an
applicant is seeking licensure based on reciprocity under the provisions of
paragraph (a)(2) of
K.S.A.
65-6406 and amendments thereto, the applicant
shall ensure that documentation covering the five continuous years of
licensure, registration, or certification as a marriage and family therapist
that immediately precede the date of the application is submitted to the board
by the licensing agency for each jurisdiction in which the applicant was
licensed, registered, or certified during that five-year period;
(C) a complete history of any disciplinary
action of a serious nature brought by the licensing agency against the
applicant. For purposes of this regulation, "disciplinary action of a serious
nature" means the revocation or suspension of a license, registration, or
certification issued by the licensing board or the voluntary surrender of a
license, registration, or certification in lieu of the completion of an
investigation or final disciplinary action; and
(D) either verification that the standards
for licensure, certification, or registration as a marriage and family
therapist in that jurisdiction are substantially equivalent to the standards in
Kansas or verification that the applicant has earned a master's degree in
marriage and family therapy, the date on which the applicant earned the degree,
and the name of the university or college granting the degree.
The completed form shall be returned to the board by the licensing agency and shall not be forwarded to the applicant.
(3) If the applicant is seeking
licensure based on reciprocity under the provisions of paragraph (a)(2) of
K.S.A.
65-6406, and amendments thereto, rather than
on the basis that the standards for licensure, registration, or certification
are substantially equivalent to the standards for licensure as a marriage and
family therapist in Kansas, the applicant shall ensure that following
additional documentation is submitted:
(A) An
attestation by the applicant that the applicant engaged in the professional
practice of marriage and family therapy an average of at least 15 hours per
week for nine months during each of the five years immediately preceding the
date of application for licensure based on reciprocity; and
(B) if the licensing agency does not provide
verification that the applicant holds a master's degree in marriage and family
therapy, an original transcript sent directly from the university or college
granting the degree that identifies all applicable graduate coursework and the
date on which the applicant was granted a master's degree in marriage and
family therapy.
(c) In addition to complying with the
requirements of subsection (b), each applicant for licensure as a clinical
marriage and family therapist shall demonstrate competence to diagnose and
treat mental disorders by submitting at least two of the following three forms
of documentation:
(1)
(A) A transcript sent directly from a
regionally accredited university or college documenting satisfactory completion
of 15 graduate credit hours supporting diagnosis or treatment of mental
disorders using the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders as
specified in K.A.R. 102-5-14. Three of the 15 credit hours shall consist of a
discrete academic course with the primary and explicit focus of psychopathology
and the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders as classified in the
diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. The remaining 12
graduate credit hours shall consist of academic courses with the primary and
explicit focus of diagnostic assessment, interdisciplinary referral and
collaboration, treatment approaches, and professional ethics, or coursework
that specifically contains identifiable, equivalent instruction; or
(B) verification from either the licensing
agency or the testing service that the applicant passed a national clinical
examination approved by the board, including the applicant's score on the exam
and the passing score established for the exam;
(2) one or both of the following types of
documentation, which shall cover periods of time totaling at least three years:
(A) An attestation by a supervisor or other
designated representative of the applicant's employer that the applicant has at
least three years of clinical practice, including at least eight hours of
client contact per week during nine months or more of each year, in a community
mental health center or its affiliate, a state mental hospital, or another
employment setting in which the applicant engaged in clinical practice that
included diagnosis or treatment of mental disorders; or
(B) an attestation by the applicant that the
applicant engaged in a minimum of three years of independent clinical practice
that included diagnosis or treatment of mental disorders, as well as supporting
documentation in the form of a published job description, a description of the
applicant's practice in a public information brochure, a description of
services in an informed consent document, or other similar published statements
demonstrating that the applicant has engaged in independent clinical practice
for a minimum of three years; or
(3) an attestation that the applicant has
demonstrated competence in diagnosis or treatment of mental disorders and that
is signed by a professional licensed to practice medicine and surgery, or by a
professional licensed psychologist, a licensed specialist clinical social
worker, or another professional licensed to diagnose and treat mental disorders
in independent practice.
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