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Qualified Continuing Education Activities

for Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists
in Massachusetts & Rhode Island
updated: 12/1/2007

Three broad categories of continuing education can be certified.

1. Professional Practice Activities

These activities enhance clinicians' ability to understand and function within the legal, economic and regulatory environments.

Some of the possible topics are:

• Practice Development                                                 • Mental Health and Domestic Law, including legislative issues

• Therapist "Burn-Out"                                                  • Expert Witness Testimony

• Managed Care                                                           • Risk Management

• Financial Management                                                • Ethics for clinicians

2. Marriage & Family Therapy Activities

Clinical, theoretical, research, and all other activities will be eligible for certification if they expressly address at least one of the
 following: (for the purposes of this section, you may assume a very broad definition of "couple" and "family").

a. Methods: clinical or research methods which can be used with couples and families.

b. Theory: ideas about how couples and families function.

c. Research Methods or Results: focusing on families and/or practice of MFT.

d. Training and Supervision: learning to teach or supervise other MFT's (on-going clinical supervision is excluded.)

3. Other Relevant Clinical Activities

The following specific content areas and clinical methods have been identified as also being directly relevant to the practice of Marriage & Family Therapy. CE activities addressing these issues will be eligible for MFT certification, whether or not they prominently address MFT. 

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