The applicant must possess a doctoral degree in psychology
that met any of the following criteria at the time the degree was
awarded:
4.
Programs Not Accredited
or Approved by APA, CPA or NASP
The program is listed as designated in "Doctoral Psychology
Programs Meeting Designation Criteria," published periodically by the ASPPB/NR
Joint Designation Program, through having satisfied criteria 2-10 of
"Guidelines for Defining a Doctoral Degree in Psychology" utilized by the
ASPPB/NR Joint Designation Program,
OR
the program meets all of the following criteria:
A.Doctoral training in professional
psychology is doctoral training offered in a regionally accredited institution
of higher education. A regionally accredited institution is an institution with
regional accreditation in the United States, an institution with provincial
authorization in Canada, or in other countries, an institution that is
accredited by a body that is deemed by the board to be performing a function
equivalent to U.S. regional accrediting bodies;
B.The program, wherever it may be
administratively housed, must be clearly identified and labeled as a psychology
program. Such a program must specify in pertinent institutional catalogs and
brochures its intent to educate and train professional psychologists;
C.The psychology program must stand as a
recognizable, coherent organizational entity within the institution;
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;
E.The
program must be an integrated, organized sequence of study;
F.There must be an identifiable psychology
faculty sufficient in size and breadth to carry out its responsibilities and an
identified psychologist responsible for the program. The faculty must be
located on site at the campus where students complete the 2 years of full-time
residency required by paragraph I below;
G.The program must have an identifiable body
of students who are matriculated in that program for a degree;
H.The program must include a coordinated
practicum of at least two semesters in duration, and 1 year of predoctoral
supervised experience (i.e., internship) that meets the requirements of Section
2 of this chapter;
I.The curriculum must encompass a minimum of
3 academic years of full-time graduate study that includes a minimum of 2 years
full-time residency at the educational institution granting the doctoral
degree. The core program must require every student to demonstrate competence
in each of the following substantive areas. This typically will be met through
substantial instruction in each of these foundational areas, as demonstrated by
a minimum of 3 graduate semester hours, 5 or more graduate quarter hours (when
an academic term is other than a semester, credit hours will be evaluated on
the basis of 15 hours of classroom instruction per semester hour), or the
equivalent:
(1) Scientific and professional
ethics and standards;
(2) Research
design and methodology;
(3)
Statistics;
(4) Psychometric
theory;
(5) Biological bases of
behavior: physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology,
sensation and perception, and psychopharmacology;
(6) Cognitive-affective bases of behavior:
learning, thinking, motivation, and emotion;
(7) Social bases of behavior: social
psychology, group processes, organizational and systems theory;
(8) Individual differences: personality
theory, human development, and abnormal psychology; and
(9) Applied psychology: e.g., forensic,
therapy techniques, neuropsychology, industrial organizational,
school.
