(a) Applicants for licensure as a licensed professional art therapist shall submit an application and fee to the advisory committee. The application must include evidence that the applicant meets the following requirements for licensure:
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 63-11-405
Advisory committee: means the professional art therapist advisory committee of the board of examiners in psychology, created by §. See Tennessee Code 63-11-402
Art therapy: means the integrated application of psychotherapeutic principles and methods with specialized training in visual art media, the neurobiological implications of art-making and the creative process, and art-based assessment models to assist individuals, families, or groups to improve mental functioning, increase self-awareness and self-esteem, resolve conflicts and distress, and enhance social functioning. See Tennessee Code 63-11-402
Art therapy certified supervisor: means a person credentialed by the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. See Tennessee Code 63-11-402
Certified art therapist: means a person holding national board certification (ATR-BC) from the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. See Tennessee Code 63-11-402
Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
Credentialed art therapist: means a person holding credentials in good standing with the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc. See Tennessee Code 63-11-402
Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
Licensed professional art therapist: means a person who is licensed to practice professional art therapy in this state. See Tennessee Code 63-11-402
Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
Supervision: means the regular observation and oversight of the functions and activities of a graduate art therapy student as part of an internship or practicum experience, or an associate art therapist engaged in the practice of art therapy to fulfill the requirements for licensure under §. See Tennessee Code 63-11-402
United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(1) The applicant has attained the age of majority;(2) The applicant is of good moral character and conducts the applicant’s professional activities in accordance with accepted professional and ethical standards;(3) The applicant has not had a professional credential refused, revoked, suspended, or restricted and does not have a complaint, allegation, or investigation pending in any regulatory jurisdiction in the United States or in another country for unprofessional conduct, unless the advisory committee finds that the conduct has been corrected or that mitigating circumstances exist that prevent resolution;(4) The applicant has:
(A) Received a master’s degree or doctoral degree in art therapy from a program approved by the American Art Therapy Association or accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs at the time the degree was conferred, and has completed not less than one thousand (1,000) client contact hours of experience after the master’s degree was conferred under the supervision of an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, credentialed art therapist, or other licensed mental health professional approved by the advisory committee. At least one-half (1/2) of the required supervision hours must be provided by an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, or certified art therapist; or(B) Received a master’s degree or doctoral degree from a college or university that was accredited by a national or regional accrediting organization recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation in a program with a graduate-level course of study and clinical training that, as determined by the advisory committee, is equivalent to an approved or accredited program in art therapy, and has completed not less than one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours of client contact experience after the qualifying degree was conferred under the supervision of an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, credentialed art therapist, or other licensed mental health professional approved by the advisory committee. At least one-half (1/2) of the required supervision hours must be provided by an art therapy certified supervisor, licensed professional art therapist, or certified art therapist; and(5) The applicant has passed the board certification examination of the Art Therapy Credentials Board, Inc.(b) A person holding a national credential in good standing as a certified art therapist is deemed to have met the requirements of this section upon submitting an application and fee and providing evidence satisfactory to the advisory committee that the applicant:
(1) Is of good moral character and conducts the applicant’s professional activities in accordance with accepted professional and ethical standards; and(2) Has not had a professional credential refused, revoked, suspended, or restricted and does not have a complaint, allegation, or investigation pending in any regulatory jurisdiction in the United States or in another country for unprofessional conduct, unless the advisory committee finds that the conduct has been corrected or that mitigating circumstances exist that prevent resolution.
