Sec.20-195c-3. Basic requirements for qualifying continuing education activities

(a) Qualifying continuing education activities are the following:

(1) courses offered or approved by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy or its affiliates;

(2) courses accredited, approved or offered by the Commission on Accreditation for Marital and Family Therapist Education, National Board of Certified Counselors, the American Counseling Association, the National Association of Social Workers, the American Association of Social Workers, the American Psychological Association, or their affiliates, provided the coursework is clearly related to maintaining skills necessary for the safe and competent practice of marital and family therapy;

(3) courses offered or approved by institutions accredited by the commission on accreditation for marital and family therapist education;

(4) graduate coursework in or related to the discipline of marital and family therapy field offered by a regionally accredited academic institution, either audited or by credit; or

(5) programs in or related to the discipline of marital and family therapy sponsored or approved by a regionally accredited academic institution, provided the coursework is clearly related to maintaining skills necessary for the safe and competent practice of marital and family therapy.

(b) Continuing education activities shall meet the following requirements:

(1) the activity involves face-to-face instruction or a home study program;

(2) the provider implements a mechanism to monitor and document physical attendance at such instruction or to verify licensee completion in the case of a home study program;

(3) the provider retains written records for a period of three years from the participant's actual successful completion of the activity, including but not limited to: content description; instructor; date of activity; location of activity; list of participants; participant's evaluation of instruction presented and number of contact hours; and

(4) the provider issues a certificate of completion after the participant's successful completion of the activity. Such certificate shall include the participant's name, provider's name, title or subject area of the activity, date and location of attendance and number of contact hours completed.

(c) Subject matter for qualifying continuing education activities shall reflect the scope of practice authorized under Chapter 383a of the Connecticut General Statutes.

(d) Activities which do not qualify for award of contact hours include: professional organizational business meetings; reading of books, articles, or professional journals; correspondence courses and other mechanisms of self instruction, except when used as a component of a home study program; and audio-visual materials, except when the latter is used as a component of a qualifying continuing education activity identified in subsections (a) and (b) of this section.

(Adopted effective November 4, 2003)