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Tennessee Code Title 63. Professions of the Healing Arts § 63-11-405

Current as of January 02, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) Applicants for licensure as a licensed professional art therapist shall submit an application and fee to the advisory committee. The application must include evidence that the applicant meets the following requirements for licensure:

(1) The applicant has attained the age of majority;

(2) The applicant is of good moral character and conducts the applicant's professional activities in accordance with accepted professional and ethical standards;

(3) The applicant has not had a professional credential refused, revoked, suspended, or restricted and does not have a complaint, allegation, or investigation pending in any regulatory jurisdiction in the United States or in another country for unprofessional conduct, unless the advisory committee finds that the conduct has been corrected or that mitigating circumstances exist that prevent resolution;

(4) The applicant has:

(A) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree in art therapy from a program approved by the American Art Therapy Association or accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs at the time the degree was conferred, and has completed not less than one thousand (1,000) client contact hours of experience after the master's degree was conferred under the supervision of an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, credentialed art therapist, or other licensed mental health professional approved by the advisory committee. At least one-half ( 1/2 ) of the required supervision hours must be provided by an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, or certified art therapist; or

(B) Received a master's degree or doctoral degree from a college or university that was accredited by a national or regional accrediting organization recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation in a program with a graduate-level course of study and clinical training that, as determined by the advisory committee, is equivalent to an approved or accredited program in art therapy, and has completed not less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours of client contact experience after the qualifying degree was conferred under the supervision of an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, credentialed art therapist, or other licensed mental health professional approved by the advisory committee. At least one-half ( 1/2 ) of the required supervision hours must be provided by an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, or certified art therapist; and

(5) The applicant has passed the board certification examination of the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc.

(b) A person holding a national credential in good standing as a certified art therapist is deemed to have met the requirements of this section upon submitting an application and fee and providing evidence satisfactory to the advisory committee that the applicant:

(1) Is of good moral character and conducts the applicant's professional activities in accordance with accepted professional and ethical standards; and

(2) Has not had a professional credential refused, revoked, suspended, or restricted and does not have a complaint, allegation, or investigation pending in any regulatory jurisdiction in the United States or in another country for unprofessional conduct, unless the advisory committee finds that the conduct has been corrected or that mitigating circumstances exist that prevent resolution.

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Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Tennessee Code Title 63. Professions of the Healing Arts § 63-11-405 - last updated January 02, 2024 | https://codes.findlaw.com/tn/title-63-professions-of-the-healing-arts/tn-code-sect-63-11-405/

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