C-26, r. 292 - Order in Council respecting the integration of marital and family therapists into the Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux du Québec

Section 26 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

26. All of the following training and supervision, completed in Québec, give rise to the marital and family therapist’s permit issued by the Ordre professionnel des travailleurs sociaux et des thérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec:

(1)  theoretical training in family and couple studies, in marital and family therapy, in human development and in couple and family ethics of at least 360 hours or 24 credits, completed with an organization in the marital and family therapy field, each credit representing 45 hours of attendance in class and personal work. The 360 hours or 24 credits shall be broken down as follows:

(a)  90 hours or 6 credits in family and couple studies;

(b)  135 hours or 9 credits in marital and family therapy;

(c)  90 hours or 6 credits in human development; and

(d)  45 hours or 3 credits in couple and family ethics;

(2)  at least 500 hours of practical training in marital and family therapy, under the supervision of a person meeting the requirements for admission as a clinical member and certified supervisor to the Association des psychothérapeutes conjugaux et familiaux du Québec or the Quebec Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, as they read during supervision or, if supervision is exercised after the effective date of the integration, as they read on that date; and

(3)  100 supervised hours with the supervisor referred to in subparagraph 2 completed during the practical training referred to in that subparagraph.

The training and supervision referred to in the first paragraph must be completed after a master’s degree awarded by a university located in Québec, after a bachelor’s degree awarded by a university located in Québec, upon completion of a program comprising at least 135 hours or 9 credits of theoretical training in human development, in the theoretical models of personality and behaviour and in intervention models or methods. All or part of that minimum theoretical training may have been received as part of the program leading to the master’s degree.

For the purposes of the Professional Code (chapter C-26) and the regulations thereunder, the training, experience and degree as a whole referred to in the first and second paragraphs shall be deemed to be the diploma recognized as valid for the issue of a marital and family therapist’s permit.

The provisions of the second paragraph shall not affect the rights of a person who, on the effective date of the integration, is registered in a training program in marital and family therapy that includes all the training and supervision referred to in the first paragraph, after receiving a bachelor’s degree awarded by a Québec university, comprising at least 135 hours or 9 credits of theoretical training in human development, in the theoretical models of personality and behaviour and in intervention models or methods if, before the expiry of the 5 years following the effective date of the integration, the person meets the requirements of the first paragraph and completes an application for a marital and family therapist’s permit in the form prescribed by the board of directors of the Order.

O.C. 1274-2001, s. 26; O.C. 560-2004, s. 1.