Nebraska Statutes 38-2140. Art therapist; certification; qualifications
(1) For purposes of this section, qualified supervisor means a qualified physician, a psychologist licensed to engage in the practice of psychology, a licensed mental health practitioner, a licensed independent mental health practitioner, or a certified art therapist who has met standards for supervision specified in rules and regulations approved by the board and adopted and promulgated by the department.
Terms Used In Nebraska Statutes 38-2140
- Approved educational program: includes a program of education and training accredited by:
(a) The Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education. See Nebraska Statutes 38-2104
- Art therapy: means the integrative application of psychotherapeutic principles and methods with specialized training in strategic use of art media, the neurobiological implications of art-making, and art-based assessment models in the evaluation, assessment, and treatment of normal and abnormal cognitive, developmental, emotional, and behavioral disorders and conditions in individuals, families, and groups. See Nebraska Statutes 38-2104.02
- Board: means the Board of Mental Health Practice. See Nebraska Statutes 38-2105
- Certified art therapist: means a person who is certified to practice art therapy pursuant to the Uniform Credentialing Act and who holds a current certificate issued by the department. See Nebraska Statutes 38-2105.01
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Person: shall include bodies politic and corporate, societies, communities, the public generally, individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, joint-stock companies, and associations. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
- State: when applied to different states of the United States shall be construed to extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories organized by Congress. See Nebraska Statutes 49-801
(2) A person who submits a complete application to the department for certification as an art therapist shall be qualified for such certification if such person:
(a) Provides evidence to the department that such person:
(i) Has a master’s or doctoral degree in art therapy from an approved educational program or a master’s degree in a related mental health field and graduate-level course work determined by the board to be equivalent in didactic content and supervised clinical experience to an approved educational program in art therapy; and
(ii) Has had at least three thousand hours of experience in art therapy supervised by a qualified supervisor following receipt of such graduate degree and at least one-half of such hours were supervised by a certified art therapist acting as the qualified supervisor. The three thousand hours of experience shall include at least one thousand five hundred hours of direct client contact, and at least one-half of such hours shall be supervised by a certified art therapist acting as the qualified supervisor. The direct-client-contact hours shall include at least one hundred hours of supervisor-supervisee-contact hours supervised by a qualified supervisor, with supervision provided at least one hour per week or two hours every two weeks, and at least one-half of such hours shall be supervised by a certified art therapist acting as the qualified supervisor; and
(b) Passes an examination approved by the board.
(3) An applicant for certification as a certified art therapist who has completed all or part of such applicant’s qualifying experience in art therapy in another state or jurisdiction shall have completed not less than one-half of the required three thousand hours of experience and not less than one-half of the direct-client-contact hours and supervisor-supervisee-contact hours supervised by a certified art therapist or a person holding a credential as a Board Certified Art Therapist from the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc., as determined by the Board of Mental Health Practice acting as the qualified supervisor.