Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 24 - Occupational and Professional Licenses, Division of
Rule 24.15.01 - RULES OF THE IDAHO LICENSING BOARD OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS AND MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS
Section 24.15.01.150 - QUALIFICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR LICENSURE
Universal Citation: ID Admin Code 24.15.01.150
Current through August 31, 2023
Licensure as a "professional counselor" is restricted to persons who have successfully completed the required examination and each of the following: (3-28-23)
01. Graduate Program. Possess a master's degree or higher, which includes an educational specialist degree, that is primarily counseling in nature, from an accredited university or college offering a graduate program in counseling, provided that the program is either: (3-28-23)
a. Approved by the Council for Accreditation
of Counseling and Related Educational Programs; or (3-28-23)
b. A counseling program of at least sixty
(60) semester hours or ninety (90) quarter hours in length and that at a
minimum includes successful completion of one (1) graduate level course unique
to the eight (8) areas and an advanced counseling practicum as follows:
(3-28-23)
i. Human growth and development:
Includes studies that provide a broad understanding of the nature and needs of
individuals at all developmental levels. Emphasis is placed on psychological,
sociological, and physiological approaches. Also included are areas such as
human behavior (normal and abnormal), personality theory, and learning theory.
(3-28-23)
ii. Social and cultural
foundations: Includes studies of change, ethnic groups, subcultures, changing
roles of women, sexism, urban and rural societies, population patterns,
cultural mores, use of leisure time, and differing life patterns.
(3-28-23)
iii. The helping
relationship: Includes philosophic bases of the helping relationship:
Consultation theory and/or an emphasis on the development of counselor and
client (or consultee) self-awareness and selfunderstanding. (3-28-23)
iv. Groups: Includes theory and types of
groups, as well as descriptions of group practices, methods dynamics, and
facilitative skills. It includes either a supervised practice and/or a group
experience. (3-28-23)
v. Life-style
and career development: Includes areas such as vocational-choice theory,
relationship between career choice and life-style, sources of occupational and
educational information, approaches to career decision-making processes, and
career-development exploration techniques. (3-28-23)
vi. Appraisal of the individual: Includes the
development of a framework for understanding the individual, including methods
of data gathering and interpretation, individual and group testing, case-study
approaches and the study of individual differences. Ethnic, cultural, and sex
factors are also considered. (3-28-23)
vii. Research and evaluation: Includes areas
such as statistics, research design, and development of research and
demonstration proposals. It also includes understanding legislation relating to
the development of research, program development, and demonstration proposals,
as well as the development and evaluation of program objectives.
(3-28-23)
viii. Professional
orientation: Includes goals and objectives of professional counseling
organizations, codes of ethics, legal consideration, standards of preparation,
certification, and licensing and role of identity of counselors.
(3-28-23)
ix. Advanced counseling
practicum: Complete at least two (2) semester courses of an advanced counseling
practicum taken at the graduate school level, provided that the applicant
completed a total of two hundred eighty hours (280) of direct client contact
that is supervised at the ratio of at least one (1) hour of one-to-one
supervision for every ten (10) hours of experience in the setting. An applicant
may complete one (1) supplemental practicum hour for every hour in which the
practicum was deficient and that meets the requirements of Subsection
230.02 of these rules.
(3-28-23)
02. Supervised Experience Requirement. One thousand (1,000) hours of supervised experience in counseling acceptable to the Board. (3-28-23)
a. One thousand (1,000) hours is defined as
one thousand (1,000) clock hours of experience working in a counseling setting,
four hundred (400) hours of which must be direct client contact. Supervised
experience in practicum taken at the graduate level may be utilized. The
supervised experience includes a minimum of one (1) hour of face-to-face or
one-to-one (1/1) or one-to-two (1/2) supervision with the supervisor for every
twenty (20) hours of job/internship experience. (3-28-23)
b. Supervision must be provided in compliance
with the ACA Code of Ethics that was adopted by the Board at the time the
supervision and provided by a counselor education faculty member at an
accredited college or university, Professional Counselor, registered with the
Board as a supervisor, or a licensed mental health professional supervisor as
defined in these rules. If the applicant's supervision was provided in another
state, it must have been provided by a counseling professional licensed by that
state, provided the requirements for licensure in that state are substantially
equivalent to the requirements in Idaho. (3-28-23)
c. Experience in counseling is defined as
assisting individuals or groups, through the counseling relationship, to
develop an understanding of personal problems, to define goals, and to plan
action reflecting interests, abilities, aptitudes, and needs as related to
persona-social concerns, educational progress, and occupations and careers.
Counseling experience may include the use of appraisal instruments, referral
activities, and research findings. (3-28-23)
d. The Board considers the recommendation of
the supervisor(s) when determining the acceptability of the applicant's
supervised experience. (3-28-23)
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