Pa. Code 5240.12

Staff qualifications

This section establishes minimum qualifications for administrative directors and clinical directors of Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS) agencies in Pennsylvania, requiring specific degrees, licensures, and postgraduate clinical experience in mental health direct services to children, youth, or young adults. Administrative directors must hold at least a bachelor's degree in a relevant field or meet the clinical director standard. Clinical directors must hold a qualifying professional license and have at least one year of postgraduate mental health direct service experience. The section explicitly does not apply to ABA services.

55 Pa. Code § 5240.12 - Staff qualifications 

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(a)
 An
 administrative director of an IBHS agency shall meet one of the following: 
 
(1)
 The qualifications for a clinical
 director in subsection (b).

(2)

 Have a bachelor's degree in psychology, social work, counseling, education,
 human services, public administration, business administration or related field
 from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the United
 States Department of Education or the Council for Higher Education
 Accreditation or have an equivalent degree from a foreign college or university
 that has been evaluated by the Association of International Credential
 Evaluators, Inc. or the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services.
 The Department will accept a general equivalency report from the listed
 evaluator agencies to verify a foreign degree or its equivalency.

(b)
 A clinical director of an IBHS
 agency shall have a minimum of 1 year of full-time postgraduate experience in
 the provision of mental health direct services to children, youth or young
 adults and meet one of the following:
(1)
 Be
 licensed in this Commonwealth as a physician practicing psychiatry,
 psychologist, professional counselor, marriage and family therapist, certified
 registered nurse practitioner with a mental health certification or clinical
 social worker.

(2)
 Be licensed in
 this Commonwealth as a behavior specialist and have a graduate degree that
 required a clinical or mental health direct service practicum from a college or
 university accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department
 of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or have an
 equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated
 by the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. or the National
 Association of Credential Evaluation Services. The Department will accept a
 general equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a
 foreign degree or its equivalency.

(3)
 Be licensed in this Commonwealth as a
 social worker and have a graduate degree that required a clinical or mental
 health direct service practicum from a college or university accredited by an
 agency recognized by the United States Department of Education or the Council
 for Higher Education Accreditation or have an equivalent degree from a foreign
 college or university that has been evaluated by the Association of
 International Credential Evaluators, Inc. or the National Association of
 Credential Evaluation Services. The Department will accept a general
 equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a foreign
 degree or its equivalency.

(4)
 Be
 licensed in this Commonwealth as a professional with a scope of practice that
 includes overseeing the provision of IBHS and have a graduate degree that
 required a clinical or mental health direct service practicum from a college or
 university accredited by an agency recognized by the United States Department
 of Education or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or have an
 equivalent degree from a foreign college or university that has been evaluated
 by the Association of International Credential Evaluators, Inc. or the National
 Association of Credential Evaluation Services. The Department will accept a
 general equivalency report from the listed evaluator agencies to verify a
 foreign degree or its equivalency.

(c)
 This section does not apply to ABA
 services.

Notes

55

 Pa. Code §
 
5240.12

This section cited in 55 Pa. Code §
 
1155.31
 (relating to general
 payment policy); 55 Pa. Code §
 
1155.32
 (relating to payment
 conditions for individual services); 55 Pa. Code §
 
1155.34
 (relating to payment
 conditions for group services); 55 Pa. Code §
 
1155.35
 (relating to payment
 conditions for EBT delivered through individual services, ABA services or group
 services); 55 Pa. Code §
 
5240.22
 (relating to individual
 treatment plan); and 55 Pa. Code §
 
5240.96
 (relating to individual
 treatment plan).

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