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The umbrella agency that consolidates the administrative operations and rule-making oversight for the Texas LPC boards.
What is Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (BHEC)?
True or False: An LPC-Associate can have an LPC supervisor who has only been licensed for two years.
What is false?
He developed Person-Centered Therapy, emphasizing congruence, unconditional positive regard, and empathy.
Who is Carl Rogers?
True or False: Texas is a member of the Counseling Compact.
What is False?
The amount of continuing education (CE) hours required for the biennial renewal of a Texas LPC.
What is 24 hours?
The exact number of post-graduate supervised experience hours required in Texas
What is 3,000?
This postmodern approach separates the person from the problem, often using the technique of "externalizing" the issue.
What is Narrative Therapy?
This is the massive, statewide exam that counseling graduates must pass to become an associate, administered by the NBCC.
What is the NCE (National Counselor Examination)?
Under Texas law, the specific public health-related training, approved by Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), that must be completed for professional license renewal.
What is human trafficking prevention training?
The minimum passing score required on the Texas Jurisprudence Exam.
What is 90%?
This cognitive distortion occurs when a client assumes the worst-case scenario will happen, regardless of evidence.
What is catastrophizing?
The association that publishes the DSM-5-TR.
What is the American Psychiatric Association?
The amount of hours from the total required biennial CE hours dedicated to ethics and professional responsibility.
What is 4 hours?
Can a Texas LPC-Associate practice independently in their own cash-pay private practice storefront?
Known as the father of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), a precursor to CBT.
Who is Albert Ellis?
Often confused with sympathy, this core counseling skill is defined as the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person from their perspective.
What is empathy?
The amount of hours that a Texas LPC can carry over into the next renewal period.
While Texas LPC Associates must log a total of 3,000 post-graduate hours over at least 18 months, board rules dictate this specific, flat monthly minimum of direct supervision hours that must be maintained regardless of how many client hours are seen that month.
What is 4 hours?
A Gestalt technique where a client conducts an imaginary dialogue with an aspect of themselves or another person placed across from them.
What is the Empty-Chair Technique?
This core ethical term refers to the proactive commitment to acting strictly in the client's best interests and actively promoting their well-being.
What is beneficence?