|
(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 §501.255 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 specialists 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. (c)An applicant for provisional licensure as a psychologist who is accredited by CPQ or the National Register or who is a specialist of ABPP will have met the following requirements for provisional licensure: submission of an official transcript which indicates the date the doctoral degree in psychology was awarded or conferred, submission of documentation of the passage of the national psychology examination at the doctoral level at the Texas cut-off score, and submission of three acceptable reference letters. All other requirements for provisional licensure must be met by these applicants. Additionally, these applicants must provide documentation sent directly from the qualifying entity to the Board office declaring that the applicant is a current member in the organization and has had no disciplinary action from any state or provincial health licensing board.
This agency hereby certifies that the adoption has been reviewed
by legal counsel and found to be a valid exercise of the agency's legal authority.
Filed with the Office of
the Secretary
of State on November 30, 2005
TRD-200505549 Sherry L. Lee
Executive Director
Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists
Effective date: December 20, 2005
Proposal publication date: August 19, 2005
For further information, please call: (512) 305-7700
|
