| (a) Application Requirements. An application for provisional
licensure as a psychologist includes, in addition to the requirements set
forth in §463.5 of this title (relating to Application File Requirements),
an official transcript which indicates that the applicant has received a doctoral
degree in psychology. Additionally, the applicant must meet the requirements
of §11 of the Psychologists' Licensing Act.
(b) Degree Requirements.
(1) The applicant's transcript must state that the applicant
has a doctoral degree that designates a major in psychology. Additionally,
the doctoral degree must be from a regionally accredited institution.
(2) The substantial equivalence of a doctoral degree
received prior to January 1, 1979, based upon a program of studies whose content
is primarily psychological means a doctoral degree based on a program which
meets the following criteria:
(A) Post-baccalaureate program in a regionally accredited
institution of higher learning. The program must have a minimum of ninety
semester hours, not more than twelve of which are credit for doctoral dissertation
and not more than six of which are credit for master's thesis.
(B) The program, wherever it may be administratively housed,
must be clearly identified and labeled. Such a program must specify in pertinent
institutional catalogues and brochures its intent to educate and train professional
psychologists.
(C) The program must stand as a recognizable, coherent organizational
entity within the institution. A program may be within a larger administrative
unit, e.g., department, area, or school.
(D) There must be a clear authority and primary responsibility
for the core and specialty areas whether or not the program cuts across administrative
lines. The program must have identifiable faculty and administrative heads
who are psychologists responsible for the graduate program. Psychology faculty
are individuals who are licensed or provisionally licensed or certified psychologists,
or diplomates of the American Board of Professional Psychology, or hold a
doctoral degree in psychology from a regionally accredited institution.
(E) The program must be an integrated, organized sequence
of studies, e.g., there must be identifiable curriculum tracks wherein course
sequences are outlined for students.
(F) The program must have an identifiable body of students
who matriculated in the program.
(G) The program must include supervised practicum, internship,
field or laboratory training appropriate to the practice of psychology. The
supervised field work or internship must have been a minimum of 1,500 supervised
hours, obtained in not less than a twelve month period nor more than a twenty-four
month period. Further, this requirement cannot have been obtained in more
than two placements or agencies.
(H) The curriculum shall encompass a minimum of two academic
years of full-time graduate studies for those persons who have enrolled in
the doctoral degree program after completing the requirements for a master's
degree. The curriculum shall encompass a minimum of four academic years of
full-time graduate studies for those persons who have entered a doctoral program
following the completion of a baccalaureate degree and prior to the awarding
of a master's degree. It is recognized that educational institutions vary
in their definitions of full-time graduate studies. It is also recognized
that institutions vary in their definitions of residency requirements for
the doctoral degree.
(I) The following curricular requirements must be met and
demonstrated through appropriate course work:
(i) Scientific and professional ethics related to the field
of psychology.
(ii) Research design and methodology, statistics.
(iii) The applicant must demonstrate competence in each of
the following substantive areas. The competence standard will be met by satisfactory
completion at the B level of a minimum of six graduate semester hours in each
of the four content areas. It is recognized that some doctoral programs have
developed special competency examinations in lieu of requiring students to
complete course work in all core areas. Graduates of such programs who have
not completed the necessary semester hours in these core areas must submit
to the Board evidence of competency in each of the four core areas.
(I) Biological basis of behavior: physiological psychology,
comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation and perception, psycho-pharmacology.
(II) Cognitive-affective basis of behavior: Learning, thinking,
motivation, emotion.
(III) Social basis of behavior: social psychology, group processes,
organizational and system theory.
(IV) Individual differences: personality theory, human development,
abnormal psychology.
(J) All educational programs which train persons who wish
to be identified as psychologists will include course requirements in specialty
areas. The applicant must demonstrate a minimum of twenty-four hours in his/her
designated specialty area.
(3) Any person intending to apply for provisional
licensure under the substantial equivalence clause must file with the Board
an affidavit showing:
(A) Courses meeting each of the requirements noted in paragraph
(2) of this subsection above verified by official transcripts;
(B) Information regarding each of the instructors in the courses
submitted as substantially equivalent;
(C) Appropriate, published information from the university
awarding the degree, demonstrating that criteria one through ten above have
been met.
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