AK MFT Juris study plan
AK MFT Juris · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Alaska statutes and regulations governing marital and family therapy practice
Map the Alaska statutes and regulations governing marital and family therapy into a one-page outline of sections, definitions, and licensing authority
Define each statutory term of art (practice of marital and family therapy, supervision, licensee) in your own words
List the statutory prohibitions and required qualifications for licensure from the primary statute and regulation text
Flag any provisions you cannot verify and mark them for review
Your checkpoint
A one-page annotated outline of the governing statute and regulations with at least 20 cited provisions and a list of flagged uncertainties
Alaska statutes and regulations governing marital and family therapy practice
Compare the statutory requirements against the regulatory requirements and note where each adds detail
Diagram the supervision requirements and record-keeping obligations imposed by regulation
Write 10 original practice questions drawn from the week 1-2 material and answer them without notes
Identify and correct every missed item on those questions
Your checkpoint
A 10-question self-quiz with a written answer key and a correction log for each miss
Licensure requirements, application, and renewal processes & Alaska statutes and regulations governing marital and family therapy practice
Sequence the licensure application steps from initial application through issuance, noting documents and fees
Summarize renewal cycle, continuing education, and lapse/reinstatement rules in a checklist
Rehearse the statute-to-regulation crosswalk for application and renewal by writing a short comparison table
Self-test on domain 2 with 10 timed questions and score above 80 percent
Your checkpoint
A one-page application-and-renewal checklist plus a scored 10-question timed quiz
Scope of practice and professional boundaries & Ethical standards and professional conduct
Distinguish scope-of-practice boundaries from professional-boundary violations using original scenario examples
Draft 5 short vignettes that each test a boundary or ethical-standard decision point, with model answers
Identify the ethical standards most likely to be tested and state each in one sentence
Compare how scope and ethics obligations overlap and where they diverge
Your checkpoint
A five-vignette scenario set with model answers and a one-page ethics standards summary
Mandatory reporting and duty to warn/protect obligations & Confidentiality, recordkeeping, and client rights
Outline mandatory reporting triggers, timelines, and recipients under Alaska law
Explain duty to warn/protect obligations and the conditions that activate them
Map confidentiality limits and exceptions, including minors, subpoenas, and court orders
Describe client rights and recordkeeping requirements in a structured summary
Write 10 original questions combining reporting and confidentiality and answer them under time pressure
Your checkpoint
A combined reporting-and-confidentiality reference sheet plus a scored 10-question timed quiz
Disciplinary processes, complaints, and enforcement & Ethical standards and professional conduct
Trace the disciplinary complaint process from filing through resolution, identifying each stage
List the grounds for discipline and the range of sanctions available
Connect ethical-standard violations to the disciplinary grounds they would trigger
Draft 5 vignettes that each require identifying a likely disciplinary outcome with justification
Your checkpoint
A disciplinary-process flowchart with a grounds-to-sanctions table and five answered vignettes
Alaska statutes and regulations governing marital and family therapy practice & Licensure requirements, application, and renewal processes & Scope of practice and professional boundaries & Ethical standards and professional conduct & Mandatory reporting and duty to warn/protect obligations & Confidentiality, recordkeeping, and client rights & Disciplinary processes, complaints, and enforcement
Build a weighted practice exam of 40 original questions across all seven domains, proportioned to the stated domain weights
Complete the exam in one sitting under timed conditions and score every item
Categorize every missed item by domain and root cause (knowledge gap, misreading, or guess)
Re-study the two weakest domains using the correction log
Your checkpoint
A scored 40-question weighted practice exam with a domain-by-domain error analysis
Alaska statutes and regulations governing marital and family therapy practice & Licensure requirements, application, and renewal processes & Scope of practice and professional boundaries & Ethical standards and professional conduct & Mandatory reporting and duty to warn/protect obligations & Confidentiality, recordkeeping, and client rights & Disciplinary processes, complaints, and enforcement
Review all correction logs and rewrite each missed concept as a one-line rule you can recall
Retake a fresh 40-question timed exam and improve on the week 7 score
Verify every previously flagged uncertainty against the source text and resolve or discard it
Summarize the highest-risk domains in a final one-page review sheet
Your checkpoint
A final one-page review sheet plus a second scored 40-question exam showing measurable improvement over week 7
Milestones
Week 2: Can state the core statutory and regulatory framework from memory and score at least 80 percent on the week 2 self-quiz
Week 4: Can complete the application-and-renewal checklist and defend each boundary/ethics vignette answer with a cited standard
Week 6: Can walk the full disciplinary process and correctly match at least 4 of 5 vignettes to a likely outcome
Week 8: Second timed 40-question exam scores higher than the week 7 exam and no flagged uncertainties remain unresolved