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17-27-302. Licensed associate counselor — Qualifications.
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17-27-302. Licensed associate counselor — Qualifications.
(a) The Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling shall issue a license of licensed associate counselor to each applicant who meets the requirements established in § 17-27-301, with the exception of § 17-27-301(6).
(b) The licensed associate counselor may practice only under direct supervision of a licensed professional counselor.
(c) The plan for supervision of the licensed associate counselor must be approved by the board before any actual performance of counseling on the part of the licensed associate counselor.
(d) Any licensed associate counselor may petition the board for licensure review for the licensed professional counselor, provided that the requirements of § 17-27-301(6) have been completed.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-27-302
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17-27-302. Licensed associate counselor — Qualifications.
(a) The Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling shall issue a license of licensed associate counselor to each applicant who meets the requirements established in § 17-27-301, with the exception of § 17-27-301(6).
(b) The licensed associate counselor may practice only under direct supervision of a licensed professional counselor.
(c) The plan for supervision of the licensed associate counselor must be approved by the board before any actual performance of counseling on the part of the licensed associate counselor.
(d) Any licensed associate counselor may petition the board for licensure review for the licensed professional counselor, provided that the requirements of § 17-27-301(6) have been completed.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
17-27-301. Licensed professional counselor — Qualifications.
The Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling shall issue a license as a licensed professional counselor to each applicant who files an application upon a form and in the manner that the board prescribes accompanied by a fee as set by the board and who furnishes satisfactory evidence of the following to the board:
(1) The applicant is not a minor under the laws of Arkansas;
(2) The applicant is highly regarded in professional ethics;
(3) The applicant is not in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted under this chapter;
(4) The applicant has applied for a criminal background check and has not been found guilty of, or pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to, any of the offenses listed in § 17-27-313(e) [repealed];
(5)(A) The applicant has received a graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education that is primarily professional counseling in content and has accumulated the graduate semester hours that meet the academic and training content standards established by the board.
(B) The board shall use the standards for the preparation of counselors prepared by that special professional association nationally as a guide in establishing the standards for counseling;
(6)(A) The applicant has three thousand (3,000) client contact hours of supervised full-time experience in professional counseling acceptable to the board.
(B) Two thousand (2,000) client contact hours of experience may be gained for each sixty (60) graduate semester hours earned beyond the master's degree, provided that the hours are clearly related to the field of counseling and are acceptable to the board.
(C) The applicant may not have less than one thousand (1,000) client c
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 17-27-301
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 17-27-301. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.