New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 27 - COUNSELORS AND THERAPISTS
Part 16 - CONTINUING EDUCATION
Section 16.27.16.8 - CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

Universal Citation: 16 NM Admin Code 16.27.16.8

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

Continuing education credit. Effective for the renewal period beginning October 1, 1997, 40 contact hours of continuing education approved by the New Mexico counseling and therapy practice board will be required to be documented during each two-year renewal period.

A. Continuing education must be obtained during the expiring licensing period.

B. One contact hour of continuing education is 60 minutes.

C. Specific continuing education which must be obtained and verified:

(1) 12 hours of ethics related to counseling/mental health for all licensees;

(2) nine hours in supervision related to counseling/mental health for all licensees who are supervisors.

D. Semester hour for the purpose of calculating continuing education units means that one semester credit hour of graduate coursework is equal to 15 continuing education units and one quarter hour of coursework is equal to 11.25 continuing education units.

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