Providers
Chapter 11
Section 3.9
Certified
Marriage And Family Therapist
Issue Date: December 5, 1984
Revision:
1.0 ISSUE
Certified Marriage and Family
Therapist.
2.0 POLICY
2.1 Provider
certification criteria follow:
2.1.1 The provider
must meet education and training requirements as specified in
32
CFR 199.6.
2.1.2 The provider
must be licensed or certified as a marriage and family therapist.
2.1.2.1 If licensure/certification
is offered by the jurisdiction in which the provider is practicing,
it is required in all cases, even if the jurisdiction offers it
on an optional basis.
2.1.2.2 In jurisdictions that do not
offer specific licensure or certification for marriage and family therapists,
the provider must be certified or be eligible for full clinical
membership in, the American Association for Marriage and Family
Therapy (AAMFT), the national association that sets standards for the
profession. If a provider is eligible for full clinical membership
in the AAMFT but is not a member, he/she must submit documentation
obtained from the AAMFT of such eligibility.
2.1.2.3 The provider must agree that
a patients’ organic medical problems must receive appropriate concurrent
management by a physician. The provider must enter into a participation agreement
with the Defense Health Agency (DHA).
3.0 EXCLUSION
Associate members or student
members of the AAMFT are not eligible for consideration as authorized certified
marriage and family therapists.
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