20 CSR 2235-1.015 - Definitions
PURPOSE: This rule establishes various definitions and terms used in these rules.
(1) Post-degree supervised professional
experience. The purpose and intention of post-degree supervised experience is
to provide experiential training in the practice of psychology in order to meet
the requirements for licensure. It is not designed to enable a person to engage
in the practice of psychology without a license. Post-degree supervised
professional experience is more than a consultation or supervisory
session.
(2) Psychological trainee.
A person enrolled in a graduate program in psychology and performing functions
as a part of his/her graduate training or practicum.
(3) Psychological intern. A person possessing
a master's degree in psychology as defined in section
337.021
or
337.025,
RSMo and enrolled in a doctoral program in psychology and serving as an intern
as part of the requirements for his/her degree program, or a person enrolled in
a doctoral program in psychology and serving as an intern as part of the
requirements for his/her degree program.
(4) Psychological resident. A person
possessing a doctoral degree in psychology as defined in section
337.025,
RSMo who is engaged in post-degree supervised professional experience in order
to obtain licensure as a psychologist.
(5) Psychological assistant. A person who has
received formal approval by the committee as having met the educational and
post-degree professional experience requirements but has not yet met the
examination requirements for licensure as a psychologist.
(6) Qualified assistant. Any person employed
by or otherwise directly accountable to a licensed psychologist and who assists
the licensed psychologist in the delivery of psychological services but whose
employment is not in the course of pursuing the educational, professional
supervised experience or examination requirements for licensure as a
psychologist.
(7) Provisionally
licensed psychologist. A psychological resident or psychological assistant who
has met the requirements for and has been issued a provisional license under
section 337.020.4, RSMo.
(8)
Applicant. Any person who submits an application for licensure and pays the
appropriate application fee to be licensed as a psychologist.
(9) Psychological health services. The
assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of an individual(s) for the purposes of
remediation of a cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or mental
disorder.
(10) Psychological health
service provider. A licensed psychologist who possesses health service provider
certification through relevant education, training, and experience as defined
in
20 CSR
2235-3.020(3)(A) in the delivery of
psychological health services and who provides psychological health services as
defined in section (9).
(11)
American Psychological Association designated health service provider delivery
areas. The foregoing term as used in sections 337.025.5,
337.033.3,
and 337.033.4, RSMo, shall include doctoral degree, or respecialization
programs, with a primary emphasis, or concentration, in one of the following
areas:
(A) Clinical psychology;
(B) Counseling psychology;
(C) School psychology; or
(D) Combined scientist-professional
psychology doctoral training programs.
(E) The term shall also include such other
programs, including doctoral and respecialization programs in emerging
substantive areas of the professional health service practice of psychology,
for which the American Psychological Association provides accreditation in the
future.
(12)
Psychological Testing. The use of one (1) or more standardized measurements,
devices, or procedures, including the use of computerized psychological tests,
to observe or record human behavior, and which require the application of
appropriate normative data for interpretation or classification and includes
the use of standardized instruments for the purpose of the diagnosis and
treatment of mental and emotional disorders and disabilities, the evaluation or
assessment of cognitive and intellectual abilities, personality, and emotional
states and traits, and neuropsychological functioning by an individual who has
received formal academic training at the graduate level in statistics, test
construction, sampling theory, tests and measurements, individual differences,
and personality theory. In addition, the interpretation of psychological tests
for diagnostic purposes requires formal academic training in the areas of
abnormal psychology, psychopathology, psychodiagnosis, and, in the case of
neuropsychological diagnosis, training in neuropsychology. Competent
administration and interpretation of psychological tests also requires a formal
supervised practice experience. Services which are described as "psychological
testing" shall be administered and interpreted by licensed psychologists or
persons who are otherwise exempt by statute. Individuals licensed by this
committee, as well as other licensed professionals, may also use tests of
language, education, and achievement, as well as tests of abilities, interests,
and aptitudes. With the exception of the test categories and psychological
tests listed in section (13) of this rule, the use of these other tests is not
exclusively within the scope of this regulation.
(13) Psychological Test and Inventories.
(A) Individual tests for the evaluation of
cognitive and intellectual abilities, examples of which are:
1. The Wechsler series;
2. The Stanford-Binet; and
3. The Kaufman series.
(B) Individual, objective, and projective
tests and inventories of personality and emotional states and traits, examples
of which are:
1. Objective tests and
inventories:
A. The Minnesota Multiphasic
Personality Inventories; and
B. The
Millon Inventories;
2.
Projective tests and techniques including:
A.
Rorschach; and
B.
Holtzman;
3.
Apperception techniques, examples of which are:
A. TAT (Thematic Apperception
Test);
B. CAT (Children's
Apperception Test);
C. PFT (Pain
Frustration Test); and
D. Tactual
Apperception Test (Twitchell-Allen); and
4. Drawing techniques, examples of which are:
A. DAP (Draw A Person);
B. HTP (House Tree Person); and
C. Action Family Drawing.
(C) Individual tests of
neuropsychological functioning, examples of which are:
1. The Halstead-Reitan Battery;
2. The Luria-Nebraska Battery; and
3. The NEPSY.
Notes
*Original authority: 337.030, RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989, 1996, 2003 and 337.050, RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999.
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