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309.133
Requirements for licensure -- Licensure without examination -Reciprocity.
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The board shall issue a license as a licensed professional art therapist to any person
who files a completed application, accompanied by the required fees, and who
submits satisfactory evidence that the applicant is at least twenty-one (21) years of
age, demonstrates professional competency by satisfactorily passing the required
examination, is a registered art therapist as defined by the Art Therapy Credentials
Board, Inc., is a board certified art therapist as defined by the Art Therapy
Credentials Board, Inc., and has:
(a) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree in art therapy that includes six
hundred (600) hours of supervised internship experience from an accredited
institution and has completed an additional one thousand (1,000) client
contact hours of postgraduate experience under appropriate supervision; or
(b) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree in a related field, has a
minimum of twenty-one (21) semester hours of sequential course work in the
history, theory, and practice of art therapy, has completed seven hundred (700)
hours of supervised internship experience from an accredited institution, and
has completed an additional two thousand (2,000) client contact hours of
postgraduate experience under appropriate supervision.
The board may approve on a case-by-case basis applicants who have a master's
degree or a doctoral degree from nonaccredited institutions.
If an applicant has met all of the requirements for licensure except satisfactorily
passing the required examination, the applicant shall be scheduled to take the next
examination following the approval of the application.
The board may issue a license to an applicant without examination if the person
possesses a valid regulatory document issued by the appropriate examining board
under the laws of any other state or territory of the United States, the District of
Columbia, or any foreign nation that in the judgment of the board has requirements
substantially equivalent to or exceeding the requirements in this section.
The board may set criteria for continuing education and supervisory experience.
Effective: June 25, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 5, effective June 25, 2009. -- Created
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 337, sec. 4, effective July 15, 1994.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/25/2009). 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 48, sec. 12,
provides: "Any person who is certified as a professional art therapist on the effective
date of this Act [6/25/2009] shall automatically be licensed on the effective date of
this Act [6/25/2009] and shall be issued a copy of the license at the time his or her
certificate was next scheduled to be renewed if at that time the person complies with
the provisions of Section 6 of this Act [KRS 309.1335] and has not been the subject
of disciplinary action under Sections 8 [KRS 309.137] and 10 [KRS 309.1375] of
this Act."
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