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Marriage and
Family Therapists
Win Legal Battle
Over Right to
Diagnose
After over eight years of litigation, MFTs have won an amazing victory in Texas. February 24, in a
unanimous decision,
the Texas Supreme
Court held that a
Texas MFT
licensure board rule authorizing MFTs to diagnose was valid. This decision overturns a lower court’s decision, which held that MFTs did not have authorization to diagnose under state law.
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