Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A)
Sources of continuing professional education shall be formally organized
learning experiences with education as their explicit principal intent and
which are oriented toward the enhancement of counselor, social worker, and
marriage and family therapy practice. The following are examples of appropriate
formats for such learning experiences:
(1)
"Institute" means a formal offering, usually in a series of meetings, for
instruction and information in a particular area of counselor, social worker
and/or marriage and family practice;
(2) "Seminar" means a small group of
counselors, social workers, or marriage and family therapists who meet under
expert leadership or resource persons. Participants prepare reports on some
aspect of a problem, which is discussed and analyzed;
(3) "Conference" means sessions of one or
more days duration designed to serve a varying number of persons to hear
different points of view on a central theme;
(4) "Staff development" means an educational
program planned by an agency to assist its employees in becoming increasingly
knowledgeable and competent in fulfilling role expectations within that agency.
Although often used interchangeably with in service education, staff
development frequently includes out-of-agency educational activities;
(5) "Symposium" means two or more specialists
presenting information on a particular subject. A moderator introduces the
subject and each speaker then summarizes and presides during a question and
answer period;
(6) "Workshop" means
a program designed to bring together individuals with a common interest and
background to solve similar problems and to gain new knowledge, skills, and
attitudes;
(7)
"Course" means a series of learning experiences with a specific content and
offered for credit, non-credit, or audit by a regionally accredited educational
institution;
(8) "Teleconference"
means the transmission of video information where there is an on-site moderator
to lead a post-conference discussion and question and answer session.
(9)
"Distance learning" means a formal education process, in which instruction
occurs when the students and instructor(s) are not located in the same place.
Distance learning adds technology to the online
learning environment by a variety of means. For the purposes of
agency 4757 of the Administrative Code, the term distance learning refers to
all non-traditional methods of presentation except
video-conferencing.
(10) "Video
conferencing" means conducting a conference between two or more participants at
different sites using computer networks to transmit audio and video data.
(B)
A continuing
education program approved for one license type may be considered approved for
all license types.
(C) The board
may
grant continuing professional education credit to licensees who author journal
articles or books on subjects related to professions
licensed by the board, and which meet the following
requirements:
(1) Journal articles shall be
published in refereed journals.
(2)
Chapters authored by licensees in books acceptable under this rule shall be
treated as journal articles. Credit will not be awarded
for any books or articles read that are not part of a program offered by an
approved provider.
(3)
Reprints or republications of previously published materials either in name or
substantive content are not acceptable as continuing professional
education.
(4) Continuing
professional education for publications having joint authorship shall be
divided equally among the authors.
(5) Licensees wishing to use a journal
article or book shall submit for continuing education
credit as required in
rule
4757-9-05 of the Administrative
Code.
(D) The board
may
grant continuing education credit to individuals who conduct presentations on
subjects related to counseling, social work, or marriage and family therapy.
Credit may be granted for first time preparation and
presentation of an in-service training workshop, a seminar or a conference
presentation which is related to the enhancement of licensee
,
, or knowledge. Licensees
wishing to use a presentation shall submit for
continuing education credits as required in rule
4757-9-05 of
the
Administrative Code.
(E)
The board may grant continuing education credit to
licensees who teach a college course, of a semester or quarter duration,
directly related to their license type. Credit at the rate of one and one-half
hours for every hour of the course, up to ten hours per renewal period, may be
granted for the first time preparation and presentation of the
course.
(F) The board may grant
continuing education credit for approved home study programs when the distance
learning program's sponsor can demonstrate that:
(1) The program meets
all of the requirements established in rule
4757-9-05 of the Administrative
Code .
(2) The program
sponsors shall have adequate security in place to assure that the individual
who receives credit for the course is the individual who completed the
program.
(3) The program sponsor
shall include post tests of at least five questions per hour of continuing
education for home-study courses.
(G) The board may grant
continuing education credit for appropriate college courses from regionally
accredited educational institutions that are documented by passing grades;
audited courses require documentation by official or unofficial transcript.
(1) Appropriate college courses are those
that are at the level of the license for which CEUs are sought. Graduate level
licensees shall generally be approved for graduate level courses directly
related to their license type. Bachelor level licensees shall generally be
approved for bachelor or graduate level courses directly related to their
license type. Associate level registrants shall generally be approved for
associate, bachelor or graduate level courses directly related to their license
type. College courses taken at a lower level than qualifying degree may be
submitted for continuing education credit
per
rule
4757-9-05 of the Administrative
Code; applicants shall delineate how that course work is relevant to their
practice.
(2) Appropriate courses
are ones not previously taken unless updated due to passage of five years or
more.
(3) Licensees wishing to use
a college course for continuing education hours shall submit
a request for continuing education credit as required
in
rule
4757-9-05 of the Administrative
Code.
(H) The board may grant
continuing education credit for programs approved by licensure boards in other states. A licensee may submit for
continuing education only those programs approved by a board that issues the
same types of licenses as this board.
(I)
The board may grant continuing education credit for
programs offered by or approved by national associations representing the
professional practice interests of persons licensed by the
board.
(J) Volunteer service:
In accordance with division (B) of section
4745.04 of the Revised Code,
licensed professional clinical counselors, independent marriage and family
therapists, and licensed independent social workers may claim up to six hours
of volunteer service toward the thirty hour continuing education requirement.
To qualify under this rule, volunteer services shall:
(1) Be provided at a free clinic or other
non-profit organization that offers health care services based on eligibility
screenings identifying the client as an "indigent and uninsured person" as that
term is defined in section
2305.234 of the Revised
Code;
(2) Not be credited for
license holders in a paid position at the organization at which the services
are rendered;
(3) Be counseling,
social work, or marriage and therapy services provided in compliance with the
professional conduct requirements specified agency 4757 of the Administrative
Code;
(4) Be credited as one hour
of CE for each sixty minutes spent providing services as a volunteer, not to
exceed six hours of the total biennial CE requirement;
(5) Not count toward the requirement to
complete three hours of continuing education in ethics continuing
education.
