Sections
49 entriesSection 4980Prohibits anyone from practicing marriage and family therapy, advertising specified consulting services, or using the titles LMFT, MFT, or MFCC without the…Section 4980.01Exempts specified clergy, California attorneys, physicians providing counseling within their practice, and certain supervised employees or volunteers of governmental, educational, nonprofit, or…Section 4980.02Defines marriage and family therapy as applying psychotherapeutic and family-systems theories, principles, and methods to assess, evaluate, and treat specified relational, emotional,…Section 4980.03Defines key chapter terms, including board, associate, trainee, applicant, advertising, experience, supervisor, client-centered advocacy, accredited, and approved. A trainee must have at…Section 4980.04Establishes “Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Act” as the name of the chapter and expressly allows the chapter to be cited by…Section 4980.05Exempts the settings described in the cited provision from the chapter and board jurisdiction except as that provision specifies. The exemption does…Section 4980.06Defines nonexempt setting, private practice, and professional corporation, and requires an active license or registration number to practice marriage and family therapy…Section 4980.08Defines “licensed marriage and family therapist” and “marriage and family therapist” as the renamed titles replacing the former marriage, family and child…Section 4980.09Defines “associate marriage and family therapist” and “registered associate marriage and family therapist” as the renamed intern titles and updates statutory and…Section 4980.10Defines practicing marriage and family therapy to include performing the service, offering to perform it, or representing oneself as able to perform…Section 4980.11Allows an out-of-state marriage and family therapist with a current, unrestricted highest-level independent license to serve an established California client for up…Section 4980.30Prohibits a person from practicing marriage and family therapy services or advertising their performance unless the person has applied to the board…Section 4980.31Requires a licensee who renders professional clinical services in person to display the license conspicuously at the licensee’s primary place of practice.…Section 4980.32Requires a licensee or registrant to give each psychotherapy client a specified complaint notice in at least 12-point type before services begin…Section 4980.34Establishes legislative intent only that the Board of Behavioral Sciences use its resources to license specified behavioral-health professions, develop and administer valid…Section 4980.35Requires the Board of Behavioral Sciences to improve communication and cooperation around marriage and family therapist licensure by informing schools, supervisors, applicants,…Section 4980.36Requires covered marriage and family therapist applicants to hold a qualifying approved or accredited master’s or doctoral degree of at least 60…Section 4980.37Requires applicants who began graduate study before August 1, 2012 and completed it by December 31, 2018 to meet specified curriculum or…Section 4980.38Requires each educational institution preparing applicants for registration or licensure to notify students in public documents or otherwise in writing that its…Section 4980.39Requires an applicant qualifying under the cited education provision to complete at least 10 contact hours on aging and long-term care before…Section 4980.395Requires, from July 1, 2023, marriage and family therapist applicants to show at least three hours of telehealth mental-health-services training, including telehealth…Section 4980.396Requires marriage and family therapist licensure applicants on or after January 1, 2021 to document at least six hours of suicide risk…Section 4980.397Requires a marriage and family therapist registrant or licensure applicant to pass a California law-and-ethics examination and a clinical examination prescribed by…Section 4980.398Requires specified applicants who previously entered the former examination process to pass the examinations applicable to their prior status: the clinical examination…Section 4980.399Requires each applicant and registrant, except as provided for certain applicants, to pass the California law and ethics examination; registrants must take…Section 4980.40Requires a marriage and family therapist license applicant to meet specified education requirements, be at least 18, complete at least two years…Section 4980.41Requires applicants qualifying under the specified education route to complete prescribed pre-examination coursework, including two semester or three quarter units of California…Section 4980.42Allows trainees to perform qualifying supervised-course activities in approved work settings when designated as trainees and permits specified trainees to gain experience…Section 4980.43Requires active associate registration for postdegree supervised experience, but credits preregistration hours if the application is received within 90 days of the…Section 4980.43.1Requires all trainees, associates, and licensure applicants to remain under supervisor oversight at all times and defines supervision as responsibility for and…Section 4980.43.2Requires direct supervisor contact of at least one hour each credited week and, for trainees, about one hour per five counseling hours,…Section 4980.43.3Prohibits trainees, associates, and licensure applicants from practicing as independent contractors; they may work only as employees or volunteers under qualifying supervision…Section 4980.43.4Limits trainees, associates, and applicants to services permitted by their employer and sets conditions for associate supervision in private practices or professional…Section 4980.43.5Requires supervisors to keep records showing completion of required supervisor qualifications for seven years after supervision ends and to provide those records…Section 4980.44Requires an associate marriage and family therapist to tell each client before services that the associate is unlicensed and registered, give the…Section 4980.46Prohibits a licensed marriage and family therapist who owns a business using a fictitious business name from using a false, misleading, or…Section 4980.48Requires a marriage and family therapist trainee, before professional services, to tell each client that the trainee is unlicensed, identify the employer,…Section 4980.49Requires a marriage and family therapist to retain an adult client’s health service records for at least seven years after therapy ends…Section 4980.50Requires the board to examine marriage and family therapist applicants who meet education and experience requirements, with exams offered at least twice…Section 4980.54Requires license renewal applicants to certify at least 36 hours of approved continuing education during the preceding two years and registration renewal…Section 4980.55Allows licensed marriage and family therapists to provide each client, at an appropriate point in the therapeutic relationship, an accurate and informative…Section 4980.57Requires a licensee who began graduate study before January 1, 2004, to complete spousal-or-partner-abuse continuing education during the first renewal period after…Section 4980.60Allows the board to adopt regulations necessary to carry out the marriage-and-family-therapy chapter under the cited rulemaking law and to regulate advertising…Section 4980.70Allows the Board of Behavioral Sciences, except as limited by the referenced provision, to employ any additional personnel necessary to carry out…Section 4980.72Allows the board to license an out-of-state marriage and family therapist whose independent license has been current, active, and unrestricted for two…Section 4980.74Requires the board to accept substantially equivalent out-of-state education and experience for applicants not qualifying under the direct endorsement route. If qualifying…Section 4980.76Requires a licensure or registration applicant whose degree was obtained from an educational institution outside the United States to provide the board…Section 4980.78Defines substantially equivalent out-of-state education for marriage and family therapist applicants, generally requiring 60 semester or 90 quarter units for one cohort…Section 4980.81Requires covered out-of-state applicants to complete education including two semester units on mental-disorder diagnosis and treatment; at least one semester unit or…