Current through September 24, 2024
A. Recognized
professional titles within the DMH Mental Health Therapist
credentialing program are:
1. DMH
"Provisionally Certified Mental Health Therapist" or the abbreviation
"PCMHT";
2. DMH
"Certified Mental Health Therapist" or the abbreviation "CMHT"; and,
3. DMH "Licensed Clinical Mental Health
Therapist" or the abbreviation "LCMHT"; (no longer offered to new
applicants).
B. Recognized professional titles within the
DMH Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Therapist
credentialing program are:
1. DMH
"Provisionally Certified Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Therapist"
or the abbreviation "PCIDDT" (formerly "Provisionally Certified Mental
Retardation Therapist - PCMRT");
2. DMH "Certified Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities Therapist" or the abbreviation "CIDDT"
(formerly "Certified Mental Retardation Therapist - CMRT");
and,
3. DMH "Licensed Clinical
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Therapist" or the abbreviation
"LCIDDT" (formerly "Licensed Clinical Mental Retardation Therapist -
LCMRT"); (no longer offered to new applicants).
C. Recognized professional titles within the
DMH Community Support Specialist credentialing program are:
1. DMH "Provisionally Certified Community
Support Specialist" or the abbreviation "PCCSS" (formerly
"Provisionally Certified Case Management Professional - PCCMP");
2. DMH "Certified Community
Support Specialist" or the abbreviation "CCSS" (formerly "Certified
Case Management Professional - CCMP" and "Certified Case Management
Professional I - CCMP-I"); and,
3. DMH "Certified Community Support
Specialist II" or the abbreviation "CCSS-II" (formerly "Certified Case
Management Professional II - CCMP-II"); (no longer offered to new
applicants).
D. The recognized professional title within
the DMH Licensed Administrator credentialing program is: DMH
"Licensed Administrator" or the abbreviation "LA" (formerly "Licensed
Mental Health/Mental Retardation Administrator - LMH/MRA" OR "Licensed DMH
Administrator - LA").
E.
Recognized professional titles within the DMH Addictions Therapist
credentialing program are:
1. DMH
"Provisionally Certified Addictions Therapist" or the abbreviation "PCAT"
(formerly "Provisionally Certified Addiction Counselor -
PCAC");
2. DMH "Certified
Addictions Therapist" or the abbreviation "CAT" ( formerly "Certified
Addiction Counselor - CAC"); and,
3. DMH "Licensed Clinical Addictions
Therapist" or the abbreviation "LCAT" (formerly "Licensed Clinical
Addiction Counselor- LCAC"); (no longer offered to new applicants).
Section
41-4-7
of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated
