REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION
1998

Requirements for State Licensure
  Doctoral degree from accredited marriage and family therapy
    program
  Two years and 1000 hours supervised clinical experience 

Material Tested in State Examination
  Joining/assessment/diagnosis   
  Designing treatment
  Conducting course of treatment
  Establishing and maintaining appropriate networks
  Assessing outcome
  Maintaining professional standards   

Required Knowledge for State Examination
  Family studies
  Family and marital development (family life cycle)
  Family stress theory
  Family diagnosis
  Gender studies
  Cross-cultural studies (e.g., ethnicity, class, minorities,
    relocated populations)
  Communication theory
  General systems theory
  Second Order family therapy (Post-Modernism, Constructivism,
    Social Constructivism, cybernetics)
    human sexuality/sexual function and dysfunction
    family and cultural belief systems
    health care delivery systems, community systems, and self-
      help groups
  In-patient systems
  Major models of family therapy:  Behavioral, Cognitive
    behavioral, contextual (Nagy), Experiential, Integrative,
    Intergenerational (Bowen), Network, Psychodynamic/Object-
    relations, Psychoeducation, Strategic (Haley et. al.),
    Strategic (Watzlawick et.al.), Structural, Systemic
    (Milan, Solution-focused, Narrative, Ericksonian
  Human development--geriatrics and child development
  Premarital counseling
  Marital dysfunction
  Content areas: divorce/child custody, remarriage/
    stepfamilies/single parenthood, sexual abuse, family
    violence/physical abuse, depression/suicide, grief/loss,
    substance abuse/addition, child & adolescent behavior
    disorders, psychosomatic disorders, eating disorders, gay
    and lesbian issues, learning disabilities/attention
    deficit disorders, HIV disease
  Family therapy outcome literature
  Major models of individual psychotherapy
  Personality theory
  Major family assessment tools
  Research methodology sufficient to critically evaluate
    assessment tools and research literature
  History of family therapy field
  Professional and ethical standards
  Literature on the influence of the therapist’s personality,
    life experience, and family of origin on the therapy  
    process
  Individual psychopathology
  Individual diagnosis (DSM/ICD)
  Basic psychodiagnostic testing
  Statutes and case laws relevant to clinical practice
  How social, political, economic, and geographic factors
    influence individual and family functioning
  How biological factors interact with psychosocial factors in
    individual and family functioning