45:8B-15 - Issuance of license without examination; educational and experience requirements - New Jersey Statutes

45:8B-15.  Issuance of license without examination;  educational and experience requirements    Any person who applies on or before January 1, 1970, may obtain a license to  be issued by the board by an examination of credentials if he meets the qualifications set forth in section 14(a), (b) and (c) and provides evidence satisfactory to the board that he meets educational and experiential qualifications as follows:

    (a) Educational Requirement:  At least a master's degree in social work, marriage or pastoral counseling, psychology, sociology of the family, family life education, or another field of study or a closely allied field of a doctor  of medicine in which it is established by the applicant's transcripts that an  appropriate course of study has been successfully completed;  the degree to  have been obtained from an accredited institution so recognized at the time of  granting of such degrees.

    (b) Experience Requirements:  Three years of full-time counseling experience, or its equivalent, of a character approved by the board, 2 years of  which must have been in marriage counseling.

     L.1968, c. 401, s. 15, eff. Jan. 10, 1969.