Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 86 - State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure
Chapter 10 - Licensed Professional Counselors
Subchapter 9 - Academic Requirements
Section 86:10-9-2 - Knowledge area required
Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 86:10-9-2
Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a) Each applicant shall possess as a part of the required sixty (60) semester credit hours or ninety (90) quarter credit hours of graduate curriculum, one (1) or more courses of at least three (3) semester credit hours or four (4) quarter credit hours per course in each of the following core counseling areas:
(1) Human growth and development - at least
one (1) course which deals with the process stages of human intellectual,
physical, social and emotional development of any of the stages of life from
prenatal through old age.
(2)
Abnormal human behavior - at least one (1) course which offers a study of the
principles of understanding dysfunction in human behavior or social
disorganization.
(3)
Appraisal/assessment techniques - at least two (2) courses which deal with the
principles, concepts and procedures of systematic appraisal, assessment, or
interpretation of client needs, abilities, and characteristics, which may
include the use of both testing and non-testing approaches.
(4) Counseling theories/methods - at least
two (2) courses which survey the major theories and/or techniques of
counseling.
(5) Professional
orientation/ethics - at least one (1) course which deals primarily with the
objectives of professional counseling organizations, codes of ethics, legal
aspects of practice, standards of preparation and the role of persons providing
direct counseling services.
(6)
Research - at least one (1) course in the methods of social science or mental
health research which includes the study of statistics or a thesis project in
an area relevant to the practice of counseling.
(7) Practicum/internship - at least one (1)
course of an organized practicum with at least three hundred (300) clock hours
in counseling with planned experiences providing classroom and field experience
with clients under the supervision of college or university approved counseling
professionals.
(8) Knowledge areas
- at least five (5) courses of at least three (3) semester credit hours or four
(4) quarter credit hours each from the knowledge areas listed below.
(A) Group counseling - course that provides
both theoretical and experiential understandings of group purpose, development,
dynamics, theories, methods, skills, and other group approaches in a culturally
diverse society, including issues of group counseling leadership, stages,
skills, methods, and ethics issues.
(B) Life style and career development -
course that provides an understanding of career development and related life
factors, as well as an overview of career development theories, program
planning, educational planning, assessment techniques, and applied career
counseling processes, including those applicable to specific populations in a
global economy.
(C) Social and
cultural foundations - course that provides an understanding of the cultural
context of relationships, issues, and trends in a culturally diverse society,
including an overview of social and cultural theories, strategies, and roles to
be applied by the pluralistic counselor to establish an environment for optimal
client wellness and successful counseling outcomes.
(D) Personality theories - course that
examines contemporary and alternative personality theories that provide the
student with models to conceptualize client presentation and that help the
student select appropriate counseling interventions, including an examination
of models of counseling that are consistent with current professional research
and practice in the field of counseling.
(E) Crisis intervention - course that
provides an overview of crisis and disaster intervention strategies for the
professional counselor that addresses areas including, but not limited to,
crises of suicide, homicide, disability due to a mental illness, domestic
violence, school violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, and vicarious
trauma.
(F) Marriage/family
counseling - course that provides an overview of the knowledge, skills, and
practices necessary to address a wide variety of issues in the context of
relationships and families, including historical, theoretical, and
developmental issues in systems counseling, in addition to examining the basic
skills of marriage, couple, and family counseling.
(G) Addictions counseling - course that
provides an overview of assessment and treatment methods available for clients
and their family members struggling with substance-related disorders or
behavioral/process addiction issues.
(H) Rehabilitation counseling - course that
provides an overview of the history, philosophy, and legal basis of
rehabilitation programs, the roles of the rehabilitation counselor, and the
process of rehabilitation, including the organizational structure of public and
private rehabilitation systems, societal trends in rehabilitation, and
professional issues related to the role of the rehabilitation
counselor.
(I) Gerontology - course
that provides a conceptual system for understanding the phenomenon of aging and
the counselor's role in working with an aging client population, including
practical counseling skills necessary for meeting the demands of coping with
aging in a culturally diverse society.
(J) Human sexuality - course that focuses on
sexual development and educational issues as applied to the field of
professional counseling with emphases placed upon becoming comfortable with
one's own sexuality, assisting parents with providing sexual education to their
children, providing education with regard to sexual matters, and diagnosing and
treating sexual dysfunction.
(K)
Counseling with children/adolescents - course that provides instruction in the
theories and techniques used in counseling children and adolescents, including
instruction on the conceptualization of childhood and adolescent problems with
an emphasis on age- and developmentally-appropriate interventions.
(L) Clinical supervision - course that serves
as a didactic and experiential learning experience for counselors who wish to
assume the role of clinical supervisor, including the assimilation and
application of major theoretical/conceptual models and approaches to clinical
supervision in a variety of settings.
(M) Psychopharmacology - course that provides
an overview of commonly prescribed psychotropic medications for psychiatric
disorders to assist the counselor in understanding his or her role in working
with medical professionals in the concurrent treatment of mental health issues
using an interdisciplinary approach.
(N) Consultation - course that provides the
knowledge and skills necessary for the delivery of counselor consultation,
including basic models of consultation, the content and procedural process for
implementing consultation, and characteristics of an effective
consultant-consultee relationship.
(O) Physical and Emotional Health - course
that deals with the overlap of physiological and psychological health models,
examining the neural and hormonal bases of learning, memory, motivation,
emotions, mental disorders, and other behaviors.
(P) Grief counseling - course that addresses
the mental health, social, and cultural manifestations of grief counseling,
including, interventions and the coverage of characteristics of grief
throughout the life cycle.
(Q)
Specialty areas when established.
(b) Remaining courses. The remaining courses needed to meet the sixty (60) semester or ninety (90) quarter graduate-hour requirement shall be in any of the knowledge areas listed in 86:10-9-2(a) and may be in increments of one (1), two (2) or three (3) graduate semester hour courses or one (1), two (2), three (3) or four (4) graduate quarter hour courses.
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