VA: New Qualifications for Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisors
Legislative Progress
Key Points
- Sets clear qualifications for hiring marriage and family therapists who will supervise other therapists inside the Veterans Health Administration.
- Says these supervisor-level therapists must already meet the VA’s basic marriage and family therapist requirements.
- Adds a new requirement: they must be allowed by their state to provide clinical supervision, or be approved as a supervisor by the main national marriage and family therapy group.
- Goal is to standardize who can oversee therapy training and supervision at VA facilities, which could affect staffing and access to supervised care for veterans.
Milestones
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1932)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 658.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1932-1933)
Source Information
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
To amend title 38, United States Code, to establish qualifications for the appointment of a person as a marriage and family therapist, qualified to provide clinical supervision, in the Veterans Health Administration.
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