2005 California Business and Professions Code Sections 4530-4532 Article 4. Schools for Preparation of Psychiatric Technicians

4530.  The board shall prepare and maintain a list of accredited
schools which offer an accredited program for psychiatric
technicians.
4531.  The course of instruction of an accredited school shall
consist of not less than the number of hours or semester units of
instruction required for the other program administered by the board.
  The subjects of instruction shall include the principles of the
care of the mentally disabled and the developmentally disabled.
Clinical inpatient experience shall be an integral part of that
prescribed or equivalent course of study and training.  The
experience shall be obtained in a state hospital, except where the
board finds that the requirement is not feasible due either to the
distance of a state hospital from the school or the unavailability,
as determined by the Department of Developmental Services or the
Department of Mental Health, of state hospital clinical training
placements.
4532.  The board shall provide for the periodic inspection of all
psychiatric technician schools in this State.  Written reports of the
inspection shall be made to the board, which shall then approve as
accredited the schools which meet the standards prescribed by it.
   If the board determines from a report that any accredited school
is not maintaining its prescribed standards, it shall immediately
give the school a notice in writing specifying the defect.  If the
defect is not corrected the board shall, after written notice, remove
the school from the accredited list.