Kan. Admin. Regs. § 102-4-1a - Definitions
Each of the following terms, as used in this article of the board's regulations, shall have the meaning specified in this regulation:
(a) "Academic equivalent," as used in
K.A.R.
102-4-3a, means the proportionate credit awarded
for formal academic coursework when this coursework is completed on the basis of
trimester credit hours or quarter credit hours rather than semester credit
hours.
(b) "Alternate psychology
supervisor" means a person who is not licensed or registered as a psychologist in
the state or jurisdiction where the supervision occurred, but who meets all of the
following alternate qualifications:
(1) The
supervisor has received a graduate degree in psychology.
(2) The supervisor has practiced as a psychologist
for at least two calendar years before supervising the applicant.
(3) The supervisor had legal authority to engage
in the independent practice of psychology in Kansas or in the state or jurisdiction
where an applicant's supervision occurred.
(c) "Client" means a person who is a direct
recipient of master's level psychology services or clinical psychotherapy
services.
(d) "Clinical psychotherapy
practice" means the independent practice of master's level psychology and the
application of psychology theory and methods to the treatment and prevention of
psychosocial dysfunction, disability, or impairment, including behavioral,
emotional, and mental disorders. Clinical psychotherapy shall include the following:
(1) Assessment;
(2) diagnosis of mental disorders;
(3) planning of treatment, which may include
psychotherapy and counseling;
(4)
treatment intervention directed at interpersonal interactions, intrapsychic
dynamics, and life management issues;
(5) consultation; and
(6) evaluation, referral, and
collaboration.
(e) "Clinical
supervision training plan" means a formal written agreement that establishes the
supervisory framework for postgraduate clinical experience and describes the
expectations and responsibilities of the supervisor and supervisee.
(f) "Consultation" means collegial deliberation
within the context of a voluntary, professional relationship in which the consultant
offers the consultant's best advice and expertise that the consultee can either
accept or reject and in which the objectives and requirements of supervision as
established in
K.A.R.
102-4-7a are lacking. Professional consultation
shall not be substituted for professional psychology supervision and shall not meet
the requirements of
K.S.A.
74-5362, and amendments thereto, regarding the
practice of master's level psychology under direction of a licensed
practitioner.
(g) "Continuing education"
means programs or activities that have content designed to enhance a licensee's
knowledge, skills, values, ethics, or ability to practice as a master's level
psychologist or a clinical psychotherapist.
(h) "Cooperating agency" means a public or private
agency, institution, or organization that provides psychological services and has a
prior agreement with an academic institution to participate in a practicum program
in compliance with the requirements of
K.A.R.
102-4-6a.
(i) "Direct client contact" means the provision of
master's level psychology services to a client or clients in an individual, family,
or group format with interaction being conducted in person or remotely with
real-time, two-way interactive audio, visual, or audiovisual communications,
including the application of videoconferencing, in which confidentiality is
protected. Interaction that includes electronic mail, instant messaging, texting, or
facsimile shall not be considered direct client contact.
(j) "Dual relationship" means a professional
relationship in which the objectivity or competency of the licensee is impaired or
compromised due to any of the following present or previous relationships with the
client or supervisee:
(1) Familial;
(2) sexual;
(3) emotional; or
(4) financial.
(k) "Extenuating circumstances" means any
condition or situation caused by events beyond a person's control that is
sufficiently extreme in nature to result in either of the following:
(1) The person's inability to comply with the
requirements of this regulation; or
(2)
the inadvisability of requiring the person to comply with the requirements of this
regulation.
(l) "Job
orientation" and "on-the-job training" mean a training program or presentation of
information that is so specific to a particular job or employment position that the
training or information cannot be generalized to another work setting.
(m) "Malfeasance" means the performance of an act
by a licensee that is prohibited or constitutes wrongdoing or misconduct.
(n) "Merits the public trust" means that an
applicant or licensee possesses the high standard of good moral character and
fitness that is required to practice master's level psychology or clinical
psychotherapy as demonstrated by the following personal qualities:
(1) Good judgement;
(2) integrity;
(3) honesty;
(4) fairness;
(5) credibility;
(6) reliability;
(7) respect for others;
(8) respect for the laws of the state and the
nation;
(9) self-discipline;
(10) self-evaluation;
(11) initiative; and
(12) commitment to the psychology profession and
its values and ethics.
(o)
"Misfeasance" means the improper performance of a lawful act by a
licensee.
(p) "Nonfeasance" means the
omission of an act that a licensee is required to perform.
(q) "One hour" means either of the following:
(1) One period of 50-60 continuous minutes;
or
(2) two periods of 25-30 continuous
minutes each.
(r)
"Postgraduate work experience" means the postgraduate, supervised practice of
psychology that meets the requirements in
K.A.R.
102-4-7a.
(s) "Practice of psychology," "practice of
master's level psychology," and "practice of master's level psychology or clinical
psychotherapy" mean the application by persons trained in psychology of established
principles of learning, motivation, perception, thinking, and emotional
relationships to problems of behavior adjustment, group relations, and behavior
modification. The application of these principles may include the following
activities and services:
(1) Counseling and the use
of psychological remedial measures with persons having adjustment or emotional
problems in the areas of work, family, school, and personal relationships, whether
those services are provided to individuals or in groups;
(2) the measuring and testing of personality,
intelligence, aptitudes, attitudes, and skills;
(3) the teaching of the subject matter;
and
(4) the conducting of research on
problems relating to human behavior, except that in all cases involving the care of
the sick and ill as defined by the laws of this state, the primary responsibility
shall remain with those individuals licensed under the Kansas healing arts
board.
(t) "Practicum,"
whether entitled a residency, an internship, or a field placement, means a formal
component of the academic curriculum in the professional psychology program that
engages the student in the supervised, professional practice of psychology and
provides opportunities to apply classroom learning to actual practice situations in
the field setting.
(u) "Prior-approved
continuing education" means any of the following forms of continuing education:
(1) Any single program for which the program
material has been submitted by a provider to the board, approved by the board, and
assigned a continuing education number;
(2) any program offered by a provider with
approved-provider status; or
(3)
academic psychology courses audited or taken for credit.
(v) "Professional psychology supervision" means
the oversight established in a formal relationship between the supervisor and
supervisee for the purpose of developing the supervisee's responsibility, skill,
knowledge, attitudes, and ethical standards in the practice of psychology.
(w) "Quarter credit hour" means two-thirds of a
semester credit hour. Quarter credit hours shall be rounded as follows:
(1) One quarter credit hour equals .7 semester
credit hours.
(2) Two quarter credit
hours equal 1.3 semester credit hours.
(3) Three quarter credit hours equal 2.0 semester
credit hours.
(4) Four quarter credit
hours equal 2.7 semester credit hours.
(5) Five quarter credit hours equal 3.3 semester
credit hours.
(x) "Semester
credit hour," as used in
K.A.R.
102-4-3a, means a unit of academic credit based on
at least 13 clockhours of formal didactic classroom instruction that occurred over
the course of an academic semester and for which the applicant received formal
graduate academic credit.
(y)
"Substantially equivalent" means equal in value in all essential and material
requirements.
(z) "Termination of the
professional relationship" means the end of the professional relationship between a
licensee and a client resulting from any of the following:
(1) The mutual consent of the licensee and the
client;
(2) the completion of the
professional services;
(3) the dismissal
of the licensee by the client;
(4) the
dismissal of the client by the licensee; or
(5) the transfer of the client to another
professional for active treatment or therapy with the belief that treatment will
continue.
(aa) "Trimester
credit hour" means a unit of academic credit received under an academic year
consisting of three equal terms. A trimester credit hour shall be equivalent to a
semester credit hour.
(bb) "Under
direction," when used to describe a licensed master's level psychologist, means that
the licensee has a formal relationship with an individual providing guidance and
oversight in which both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The directing individual provides the licensee
with the following, commensurate with the welfare of the client and the education,
training, and experience of the licensee:
(A)
Professional monitoring and oversight of the licensed master's level psychology
services provided by the licensee;
(B)
regular and periodic evaluation of the treatment services provided to clients by the
licensee; and
(C) verification that
guidance and oversight was provided to the licensee.
(2) With each license renewal, the licensee
receiving direction provides the board with the following:
(A) The name of the directing individual, the type
of license held by the directing individual, and other pertinent identifying
information; and
(B) a description of
the work setting and the master's level psychology services conducted under
direction.
(cc)
"Undue influence" means the misuse of one's professional position of confidence,
trust, or authority over a client or supervisee or the taking advantage of a
client's vulnerability, weakness, infirmity, or distress for either of the following
purposes:
(1) To improperly influence or change a
client's or supervisee's actions or decisions; or
(2) to exploit a client or supervisee for the
financial gain, personal gratification, or advantage of the licensee or a third
party.
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