Proposed Agenda

State Board for Mental Health Practitioners

1. Welcome and Call to Order
2. Review of February 2, 2007 Meeting Minutes
3. Board of Regents "P-16 Education: A Plan for Action"
4. Report of the Executive Secretary
   
   1. Update on Office of the Professions organization
   2. Processing of licensing and limited permit applications
   3. April 25, 2007 Office of Professional Discipline training and illegal practice
5. Registration of Programs Leading to Licensure
   
   1. Registered programs in New York State
   2. Supervision of students in license-qualifying programs
   3. Out-of-state and distance-learning programs operating in New York
   4. Psychoanalytic Institutes and payment of fees
6. Proposed Revisions to Commissioner's Regulations Related to Grandparenting
   
   1. Delete section 79-9.6 - licensure as mental health counselor under special provisions
   2. Delete section 79-10.6 - licensure as a marriage and family therapist under special provisions
   3. Delete section 79-11.6 - licensure as a creative arts therapist under special provisions
   4. Delete section 79-12.6 - licensure as a psychoanalyst under special provisions
   5. Amend section 79-9.3(d)(2) to eliminate credential as qualification
   6. Amend section 79-10.3(d)(2) to eliminate credential as qualification
   7. Amend section 79-11.3(d)(2) to eliminate credential as qualification
   8. Amend section 79-12.3(d)(2) to eliminate credential as qualification
7. Questions Related to the Practice of the Professions
   Allowed activities in supervised practice of the profession
   
   1. Direct versus indirect client contact hour for psychoanalysis
   2. Direct versus indirect client contact hour for mental health counseling
   3. Direct versus indirect client contact hour for marriage & family therapy
   4. Direct versus indirect client contact hour for creative arts therapy
8. Working Lunch Break (vendors available on Washington Avenue)
9. School Counselor Credential and Medicaid Reimbursement (OMS)
   
   1. Medicaid reimbursement
   2. School credentialing through Office of Teaching Initiatives
10. Other Business
11. Motion to Enter Executive Session to Review Process for Scoring Examinations
    
    1. Creative Arts Therapy case narrative examination
    2. Psychoanalysis case narrative examination
12. Adjournment

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