NAC641A.131. Requirements to renew license; failure to comply; reactivation of inactive license.

     1. To maintain licensure, a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor must complete at least 20 hours of continuing education each year, at least 3 hours of which must be on ethics issues specifically pertaining to the field of practice of the marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor. If the marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor is an approved supervisor, at least 1 hour of the requirements of this subsection must be on issues specifically pertaining to supervising in the field of practice of the approved supervisor and must include education in at least one of the following:

     (a) An overview of a supervision model;

     (b) Areas of focus for a supervisor and the roles of a supervisor;

     (c) The process of supervising and the practical application of that process;

     (d) Ethical dilemmas involved in supervising;

     (e) Methods of effectively addressing and preventing ethical dilemmas in supervising; or

     (f) An overview of the supervision standards of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the National Board for Certified Counselors or the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, or the provisions of this chapter and chapter 641A of NRS relating to the practice of marriage and family therapy or the practice of clinical professional counseling, as applicable.

     2. A marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor shall not use more than 10 hours of distance education to satisfy the requirements of subsection 1.

     3. With the approval of the Board, a marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor may satisfy the requirements of subsection 1 by teaching at an institution, seminar, workshop, conference or other program. The content of the teaching material must be related to the field of practice of the marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor and may not be part of the primary or regular employment of the marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor. For each such hour taught, 2 hours of continuing education may be credited pursuant to this subsection.

     4. A marriage and family therapist or clinical professional counselor is subject to disciplinary action by the Board if he or she fails to satisfy the requirements for continuing education set forth in subsection 1.

     5. To reactivate an inactive license, an inactive licensee must complete at least 20 hours of continuing education in the year immediately preceding his or her application for reactivation.

     6. As used in this section, “distance education” means education, training, courses or programs that are delivered to a student who is geographically separate from the instructor.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Exam’rs for Marriage & Fam. Therapists by R173-03, eff. 8-20-2004; A by Bd. of Exam’rs for Marriage & Fam. Therapists & Clinical Prof. Counselors by R060-08, 9-18-2008)