Kentucky Administrative Regulations
Title 201 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT CABINET
Chapter 34 - Board of Licensure for Professional Art Therapists
Section 201 KAR 34:010 - Licensure of professional art therapists
Universal Citation: 201 KY Admin Regs Service 34:010
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, March 1, 2024
RELATES TO: KRS 309.1315(5), 309.133
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY: KRS 309.1315(1) requires the board to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the provisions of KRS 309.130 to 309.1399. This administrative regulation establishes the requirements for licensure of professional art therapists.
Section 1.
(1) Proof of certification or
registration with the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. shall be accepted as
evidence that the applicant has met the educational and experiential
requirements for licensure as set forth in
KRS
309.133(1).
(2) Supervision shall be considered
appropriate if:
(a) For group supervision it:
1. Is provided by an approved supervisor to
an individual or a group not exceeding six (6) individuals;
2. Enhances the professional development of a
supervisee in the provision of professional art therapy services; and
3. Is equally distributed throughout the
period of supervision; and
(b) For individual supervision, it consists
of case consultation between the supervisor and the supervisee that is
restricted to the supervisee's cases.
(3) An approved supervisor shall be licensed
as a professional art therapist in the Commonwealth of Kentucky with a minimum
of four (4) years of experience in the practice of art therapy.
(4) To identify a license holder as a
licensed professional art therapist, a licensed professional art therapist may
use "LPAT".
(5) To qualify, an
internship experience shall have been an internship in the field of art
therapy.
(6) To qualify, a
trainee's postgraduate experience shall have been the practice of art therapy
after completion of and receipt of the qualifying degree pursuant to
KRS
309.133.
(7)
(a) The
practice of art therapy shall include the rendering to individuals, families,
or groups, services that use art media and verbalization as a means of
expression and communication to promote perceptive, intuitive, affective and
expressive experiences that:
1. Alleviate
distress, reduce physical, emotional, behavioral, and social impairment;
and
2. Lead to growth or
reintegration of one's personality.
(b) Art therapy services shall include:
1. Assessment and evaluation;
2. Development of treatment plans, goals and
objectives;
3. Case management
services; and
4. Therapeutic verbal
and visual treatment.
(8) "Twenty-one (21) semester hours of
sequential course work in the history, theory, and practice of art therapy"
shall include completion of the following:
(a) A minimum of twenty-one (21) semester
hours, thirty-one (31) quarter hours, or 315 clock hours in art therapy courses
from an accredited institution as defined in
KRS
309.130(5);
(b) The required core curriculum shall
include the following components:
1. History
of art therapy;
2. Theory of art
therapy;
3. Techniques of practice
in art therapy;
4. The application
of art therapy with people in different treatment settings;
5. Psychopathology;
6. Assessment of patients and diagnostic
categories;
7. Ethical and legal
issues of art therapy practice;
8.
Standards of good practice in art therapy; and
9. Matters of cultural diversity bearing on
the practice of art therapy.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY: KRS 309.1315(1), (11), (12)
Disclaimer: These regulations may not be the most recent version. Kentucky may have more current or accurate information. We make no warranties or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the information contained on this site or the information linked to on the state site. Please check official sources.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google
Privacy Policy and
Terms of Service apply.
