32-2071

32-2071. Qualifications of applicant;
education; training

A. An applicant for licensure shall have a doctoral degree from an institution of
higher education in clinical or counseling psychology, school or educational psychology
or any other subject area in applied psychology acceptable to the board and shall have
completed a doctoral program in psychology from an educational institution that has:

1. Been accredited by one of the following regional accrediting agencies at the
time of the applicant's graduation:

(a) The New England association of schools and colleges.

(b) The middle states association of colleges and schools.

(d) The northwest association of schools and colleges.

(e) The southern association of colleges and schools.

(f) The western association of schools and colleges.

2. A program that is identified and labeled as a psychology program and that stands
as a recognized, coherent organizational entity within the institution with clearly
identified entry and exit criteria for graduate students in the program.

3. An identifiable psychology faculty in the area of health service delivery and a
psychologist responsible for the program.

4. A core program that requires each student to demonstrate competence by passing
suitable comprehensive examinations or by successfully completing at least three or more
graduate semester hours, five or more quarter hours or six or more trimester hours or by
other suitable means in the following content areas:

(a) Scientific and professional ethics and standards in psychology.

(b) Research, which may include design, methodology, statistics and psychometrics.

(c) The biological basis of behavior, which may include physiological psychology,
comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation and perception and psychopharmacology.

(d) The cognitive-affective basis of behavior, which may include learning,
thinking, motivation and emotion.

(e) The social basis of behavior, which may include social psychology, group
processes, cultural diversity and organizational and systems theory.

(f) Individual differences, which may include personality theory, human development
and abnormal psychology.

(g) Assessment, which includes instruction in interviewing and the administration,
scoring and interpretation of psychological test batteries for the diagnosis of cognitive
abilities and personality functioning.

(h) Treatment modalities, which include instruction in the theory and application
of a diverse range of psychological interventions for the treatment of mental, emotional,
psychological and behavioral disorders.

5. A psychology program that leads to a doctoral degree requiring at least the
equivalent of three full-time academic years of graduate study, two years of which are at
the institution from which the doctoral degree is granted.

6. A requirement that the student must successfully defend a dissertation, the
content of which is primarily psychological, or an equivalent project acceptable to the
board.

7. Official transcripts that have been prepared solely by the institution and not
by the student and, except for manifest clerical errors or grade changes, have not been
altered by the institution after the student's graduation.

8. Given the student credit only for course work listed on its official transcripts
and that is obtained only at regionally accredited educational institutions as listed in
paragraph 1 of this subsection and does not give credit for continuing education
experiences or courses.

B. If the institution is located outside the United States, the applicant shall
demonstrate that the program meets the requirements of subsection A, paragraphs 2 through
7 and subsections C through M.

C. The applicant shall complete relevant didactic courses of the program required
under subsection A, paragraph 4 before starting the supervised professional experiences
as described pursuant to subsection F.

D. Each applicant for licensure shall obtain three thousand hours of supervised
professional work experiences. The applicant shall demonstrate clearly how the applicant
met this requirement. The applicant shall obtain a minimum of one thousand five hundred
hours through an internship as described in subsection F. The applicant shall obtain the
remaining one thousand five hundred hours through any combination of the following:

1. Supervised preinternship professional experiences as described in subsection E.

2. Additional internship hours as described in subsection F.

3. Supervised postdoctoral experiences as described in subsection G.

E. If the applicant chooses to include up to one thousand five hundred hours of
supervised preinternship professional experience to satisfy a portion of the three
thousand hours of supervised professional experience, the following requirements must be
met:

1. The applicant's supervised preinternship professional experiences shall reflect
a faculty directed, organized, sequential series of supervised experiences of increasing
complexity that follows appropriate academic coursework and that prepares the applicant
for an internship.

2. The applicant's supervised preinternship professional experiences shall follow
appropriate academic preparation. There must be a written training plan between the
student and the graduate training program. The training plan for each supervised
preinternship professional experience training site must designate an allotment of time
for each training activity and must assure the quality, breadth and depth of training
experience through the specification of goals and objectives of the supervised
preinternship professional experience, the methods of evaluation of the student and
supervisory experiences. If supervision is to be completed by qualified site supervisors
at external sites, their approval must be included in the plan.

3. More than one part-time supervised preinternship professional experience
placement of appropriate scope and complexity over the course of the graduate training
may be combined to satisfy the one thousand five hundred hours of supervised
preinternship professional experiences.

4. Every twenty hours of supervised preinternship professional experience must
include the following:

(a) At least fifty per cent of the supervised preinternship professional
experiences must be in psychological service-related activities. Psychological
service-related activities may include treatment, assessment, interviews, report writing,
case presentations, seminars on applied issues providing cotherapy, group supervision and
consultations.

(b) At least twenty-five per cent of the supervised preinternship professional
experiences must be devoted to face-to-face patient-client contact.

(c) At least one hour per week of regularly scheduled contemporaneous face-to-face
individual supervision per twenty hours of supervised preinternship professional
experience that addresses the direct psychological services provided by the student.

(d) After September 1, 2013, at least two hours of regularly scheduled
contemporaneous supervision per twenty hours of supervised preinternship professional
experience that addresses the direct psychological services provided by the student. At
least fifty per cent of the supervision during the total supervised preinternship
professional experience shall be provided through contemporaneous face-to-face individual
supervision. Not more than fifty per cent shall be through group supervision. At least
seventy-five per cent of the supervision shall be by a psychologist who is licensed or
certified to practice psychology at the independent level by a licensing jurisdiction of
the United States or Canada and who is designated by the academic program. Not more than
twenty-five per cent of the supervision shall be by a licensed mental health professional
who is licensed or certified by a licensing jurisdiction of the United States or Canada,
a psychology intern currently under the supervision of a licensed psychologist or an
individual completing a postdoctoral supervised experience currently under the
supervision of a licensed psychologist.

5. The applicant must provide to the board the written training plan developed by
the applicant's program and documentation of the total hours accrued by the applicant
during the supervised preinternship professional experience, including the number of
face-to-face patient-client contact hours and the amount of supervision and
qualifications of the supervisors for the entire supervised preinternship professional
experiences. Documentation must include an acknowledgement that ethics training was
included throughout the supervised preinternship professional experience.

6. Supervised professional preinternship experiences must be completed within
seventy-two months.

F. The applicant shall have one thousand five hundred hours of supervised
professional experience, which shall be either an internship that is approved by the
American psychological association committee on accreditation, an internship that is a
member of the association of psychology postdoctoral and internship centers or an
organized training program that is designed to provide the trainee with a planned,
programmed sequence of training experience, the focus and purpose of which are to assure
breadth and quality of training, and that meets the following requirements:

1. The training program has a clearly designated staff psychologist who is
responsible for the integrity and quality of the training and who is licensed or
certified to practice psychology at the independent level by any licensing jurisdiction
of the United States or Canada in which the program exists.

2. The training program provides at least two psychologists on staff as
supervisors, at least one of whom is licensed or certified to practice psychology at the
independent level by a licensing jurisdiction of the United States or Canada in which the
program exists and at least one of whom is directly available to the trainee in case of
emergency.

3. Supervision is provided by the person who carries clinical responsibility for
the cases being supervised. At least half of the training supervision shall be provided
by one or more psychologists.

4. Training includes a range of assessment, consultation and treatment activities
conducted directly with clients.

5. A minimum of twenty-five per cent of a trainee's supervised professional
experience hours is in direct client or patient contact.

6. Training includes regular face-to-face, individual supervision conducted on a
contemporaneous basis, with a minimum of one hour of face-to-face, individual supervision
for each twenty hours of experience and with the specific intent of dealing with
psychological services rendered directly by the trainee and at least two additional hours
per week in other learning activities. Not more than twenty per cent of the face-to-face
supervision may be completed using confidential real time visual telecommunication or
other confidential electronic means.

7. The training program includes interaction with other psychology trainees.

8. Trainees have a title that designates their trainee status.

9. The applicant provides from the training organization a written statement that
describes the goals and content of the training program and documents that clear
expectations existed for the breadth, depth and quality and quantity of a trainee's work
at the time of the supervised professional experience.

10. The supervised professional experience is completed within twenty-four
consecutive months.

G. Not more than one thousand five hundred hours of supervised professional
experience shall be postdoctoral and may start on written certification by the
applicant's education program that the applicant has satisfied all requirements for the
doctoral degree and on written certification that the applicant has completed an
appropriate supervised professional experience as required in subsection F. The one
thousand five hundred hours of supervised professional experience shall meet the
following requirements:

1. Supervision is conducted by a psychologist who is licensed or certified to
practice psychology at the independent level in any licensing jurisdiction of the United
States or Canada in which the supervision occurs or by a psychologist who is on full-time
active duty in the United States armed services and who is licensed or certified by a
board of psychologist examiners in a United States jurisdiction, who has been licensed or
certified for at least two years and who is competent in the areas of professional
practice in which the supervisee is receiving supervised professional experience.

2. The supervisor takes full legal responsibility for the welfare of the client as
well as the diagnosis, intervention and outcome of the intervention and takes reasonable
steps to ensure that clients are informed of the supervisee's training and status and
that clients may meet with the supervisor at the client's request.

3. The supervisor or the appropriate custodian of records is responsible for
ensuring that adequate records of client contacts are maintained and that the client is
informed that the source of access to this information in the future is the supervisor.

4. The supervisor is fully available for consultation in the event of an emergency
and provides emergency consultation coverage for the supervisee.

5. Regular face-to-face, individual supervision is conducted on a contemporaneous
basis, with a minimum of one hour of face-to-face, individual supervision for each twenty
hours of supervised professional experience. At least six hundred hours of the
supervisee's time shall be in direct contact with clients. Not more than twenty per cent
of the face-to-face supervision may be completed using confidential real time visual
telecommunication technology or other confidential electronic means.

6. The supervised professional experience as described in this subsection is
completed within thirty-six consecutive months.

H. In meeting the supervised preinternship professional experience as described in
subsection E and the supervised professional experience as described in subsections F and
G, an applicant shall not receive credit for more than forty hours of experience per
week.

I. An applicant who does not satisfy the supervised professional experience
requirements of subsection F may qualify on demonstration of twenty years' licensed or
certified practice as a psychologist in a jurisdiction of the United States or Canada.

J. An applicant who does not satisfy the supervised preinternship professional
experience requirements of subsection E or the supervised professional experience
requirements of subsection G, or a combination of subsections E and G, may qualify on
demonstration of ten years' licensed or certified practice as a psychologist in a
jurisdiction of the United States or Canada.

K. The applicant shall complete a residency at the institution that awarded the
applicant's doctoral degree. The residency shall require the following:

1. The student's active participation and involvement in learning.

2. Direct regular contact with faculty and other matriculated doctoral students.

3. Eighteen semester hours or thirty quarter hours or thirty-six trimester hours
completed within a twelve month consecutive period at the institution or a minimum of
three hundred hours of student-faculty contact that involves face-to-face educational
meetings conducted by the institution's psychology faculty and fully documented by the
institution and the student. These meetings shall include interaction between the student
and faculty and the student and other students and shall relate to the program content
areas specified in subsection A, paragraph 4. These meetings shall be in addition to the
supervised preinternship professional experience, clerkship or externship supervision
hours or dissertation hours. On request by the board, the applicant shall obtain
documentation from the institution showing how the applicant's performance was assessed
and documented.

L. To determine if an applicant satisfies the requirements of subsection A relating
to subject areas in applied psychology, the board may require the applicant to complete a
respecialization program in a program or professional school of psychology that has
either an established American psychological association accredited doctoral program in
clinical or counseling psychology or school or educational psychology or an established
doctoral program that meets board rules. The applicant must also:

1. Meet all of the requirements of the new respecialization area. The board shall
give the applicant credit for course work that the applicant has previously successfully
completed and that meets the requirements of subsection A, paragraph 4.

2. Complete one thousand five hundred hours of supervised professional experience
as prescribed in subsection F.

3. Present a certificate or letter from the department head, training director or
dean that verifies that the applicant completed the program and that identifies the
specialty area of applied psychology the applicant completed.

M. For the purposes of subsection A, paragraph 4, "other suitable means" means that
an applicant demonstrates competence by being a diplomate of the American board of
professional psychology or, if an applicant fails to demonstrate completion of course
work in two content areas prescribed in subsection A, paragraph 4, the applicant has
fulfilled the two deficient requirements by successfully passing a graduate course in
each deficient content area as a nonmatriculated student in a doctoral level psychology
program at a university that is accredited pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 1.