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For the past seven years of a dark cloud raining of the marriage and family therapy profession a beam of light is finally shining through. Seven years ago the lower courts decided to revoke MFTs ability to diagnosis patients. The problem with revoking our ability to diagnosis is how are we supposed to get insurance? Therapy for people who are trying to seek help can be expensive over time. The court to rule MFTs are unqualified to perform diagnostic assessments is unjust. MFT students are required to have 200 more hours of client contact than most mental health programs. Also, students cannot count indirect hours towards those hours for the completion of their logs. Filing, checking people in at the door, or imputing paper work does not go towards those hours. The only balance to those hours for MFTs is the extra 6 or plus hours other programs have to attend. Last week the Texas Supreme Court over ruled the lower court’s decision to revoke our ability to diagnosis. The Court stated “MFTs in Texas are trained and qualified to perform diagnostic assessment using the DSM and are tested on that ability as part of their licensing requirements.” Professions will overlap and provide some similar services. There will be a difference between the …show more content…
We were first told our program was being cancelled and then we were told our closing program was going to be unaccredited. It just seemed like nothing could go right because even before those unfortunate events our ability to diagnosis was being challenged by the lower courts. The Lower courts had ruled out are ability to diagnosis to leave clinicians in sambals. As students, we were sitting here trying to expression are passions in the Marriage and Family therapy field, only to be turned away. This bright light at the end out the tunnel gives hope that someone is looking out for the little guys trying to make a difference in the
For the past seven years of a dark cloud raining of the marriage and family therapy profession a beam of light is finally shining through. Seven years ago the lower courts decided to revoke MFTs ability to diagnosis patients. The problem with revoking our ability to diagnosis is how are we supposed to get insurance? Therapy for people who are trying to seek help can be expensive over time. The court to rule MFTs are unqualified to perform diagnostic assessments is unjust. MFT students are required to have 200 more hours of client contact than most mental health programs. Also, students cannot count indirect hours towards those hours for the completion of their logs. Filing, checking people in at the door, or imputing paper work does not go towards those hours. The only balance to those hours for MFTs is the extra 6 or plus hours other programs have to attend. Last week the Texas Supreme Court over ruled the lower court’s decision to revoke our ability to diagnosis. The Court stated “MFTs in Texas are trained and qualified to perform diagnostic assessment using the DSM and are tested on that ability as part of their licensing requirements.” Professions will overlap and provide some similar services. There will be a difference between the …show more content…
We were first told our program was being cancelled and then we were told our closing program was going to be unaccredited. It just seemed like nothing could go right because even before those unfortunate events our ability to diagnosis was being challenged by the lower courts. The Lower courts had ruled out are ability to diagnosis to leave clinicians in sambals. As students, we were sitting here trying to expression are passions in the Marriage and Family therapy field, only to be turned away. This bright light at the end out the tunnel gives hope that someone is looking out for the little guys trying to make a difference in the