20 CSR 2235-2.020 - Supervised Professional Experience, Section 337.021, RSMo
(1) The supervised professional experience
requirements for a person applying for licensure as a psychologist pursuant to
section 337.021, RSMo shall be governed
by this rule in force and effect on August 28, 1989. All applicants for
licensure as a psychologist, whether applying on the basis of a master's degree
or a doctorate degree, must have had at least one (1) year of satisfactory
supervised professional experience in the general field of psychology as
defined in this rule and must demonstrate compliance with this rule in the
attestation forms provided by the committee. Attestation forms may be obtained
by contacting the office of the State Committee of Psychologists.
(2) As applied to periods of supervised
professional experience commencing before January 1, 1984, the phrase
"satisfactory supervised professional experience in the general field of
psychology" as used in section
337.021, RSMo (prior to August
28, 1989, referenced language appeared in section 337.020.2, RSMo) means
post-degree training or practice of psychology in an organized health service
training program or its psychological equivalent under the supervision of a
licensed psychologist who is not a relative of the trainee. Professional
experience, which was gained by an applicant before September 28, 1977, will be
deemed acceptable if the experience was supervised by a person, not a relative
of the trainee, who would have been eligible for licensure at the time the
supervision occurred. The psychological activities of the applicant shall be
performed pursuant to the supervisor's order, control and full professional
responsibility. Reports prepared by the applicant during the period of the
supervised professional experience should be cosigned by the supervisor. The
supervisor shall maintain a continuing relationship with the applicant and must
meet with the applicant a minimum of one (1) hour per week in face-to-face
individual supervision. Group supervision is not acceptable for supervised
professional experience under this rule. The supervisor must certify to the
department that the applicant has complied with these requirements for
supervised professional experience.
(3) As applied to periods of supervision
commencing on or after January 1, 1984 and on or before December 31, 1988, the
phrase "satisfactory supervised professional experience in the general field of
psychology" as used in section
337.021, RSMo (prior to August
28, 1989 referenced language appeared in section 337.020.2, RSMo) shall mean
post-degree training or practice of psychology obtained under the supervision
of a licensed psychologist who is not a relative of the trainee. This one (1)
year of supervised professional experience must be acquired in an organized
health service training program, however, an applicant may obtain, with prior
approval by the committee, this experience in a setting other than an organized
health service training program. If the applicant desires this special
approval, s/he shall have his/her supervisor submit a written detailed
description of the proposed program of supervised professional experience. The
psychological activities of the applicant must be performed pursuant to the
supervisor's order, control and full professional responsibility. Professional
reports prepared by the applicant during the period of the supervised
professional experience must be cosigned by the supervisor. The supervisor
shall maintain a continuing relationship with the applicant and must meet with
the applicant a minimum of one (1) hour per week in face-to-face individual
supervision. Group supervision is not acceptable for supervised professional
experience under this regulation. The supervisor must certify to the department
that the applicant has complied with these requirements for satisfactory
professional experience.
(4) As
applied to periods of supervision commencing on or after January 1, 1989, the
phrase "satisfactory supervised professional experience in the general field of
psychology" as used in section 337.020.2, RSMo shall mean-
(A) Post-degree training or practice of
psychology obtained under the supervision of a licensed psychologist who is not
a relative of the trainee;
(B)
Supervised professional experience obtained in an organized training program
for the delivery of psychological services. That organized training program
shall include providing:
1. Services
appropriate to the trainee's intended area of expertise and practice;
2. Exposure to and interaction with a variety
of professionals and disciplines in the delivery of psychological
services;
3. Delivery of a wide
range of psychological services appropriate to the intended area of practice of
the trainee to a diverse clientele population with regard to age, gender,
socioeconomic status and other variables as appropriate to the intended area of
practice;
4. Delivery of services
using a variety of diagnostic and theoretically-based interventions as
appropriate to the intended area of practice; and
5. At least eight (8) hours per month of
regularly scheduled in-service training or other learning activities which,
over the course of the period of the supervised professional experience, must
include three (3) of the following categories:
A. Seminars, workshops or lectures;
B. Readings and structured group
discussions;
C. Case conferences,
consultations and collaborations with other professionals;
D. Grand rounds;
E. Attendance at psychological-oriented
meetings conducted at the local, state, regional or national level;
or
F. Psychologically-related
continuing education credits approved by a recognized professional
organization;
(C) Psychological activities of the trainee
must be performed pursuant to the supervisor's order, control and full
professional responsibility;
(D)
Reports prepared by the trainee during the period of the supervised
professional experience must be cosigned by the supervisor;
(E) The supervisor shall maintain a
continuing relationship with the trainee and must meet with the trainee a
minimum of one (1) hour per week in face-to-face individual supervision. Group
supervision is not acceptable for supervised professional experience under this
rule; and
(F) The supervisor must
certify to the department through the committee that the trainee has complied
with the requirements for supervised professional experience through the use of
the attestation forms provided by the committee.
(5) Acceptable supervision occurs only when
the supervisor and the applicant are both employed by or affiliated with the
same professional setting.
(6) For
purposes of this rule, the term relative of the trainee shall mean a spouse,
parent, child, sibling of the whole- or half-blood, grandparent, grandchild,
aunt or uncle of the trainee or one who has a present relationship to the
trainee as stepparent or stepchild.
(7) For purposes of this rule, the phrase
person, not a relative of the trainee, who would have been eligible for
licensing at the time the supervision occurred shall mean a person who, at the
time the supervision took place-
(A) Was not a
relative of the trainee, as defined in section (6) of this rule;
(B) Could have satisfied the present
educational requirements of section
337.020, RSMo; and
(C) Could have satisfied the experience
requirements of section
337.020, RSMo and of this rule,
except for the requirements of having had a licensable supervisor.
(8) Acceptable supervised
professional experience shall constitute a minimum of fifteen hundred (1,500)
hours of professional experience obtained in no less than a twelve (12) or no
more than a twenty-four (24)-consecutive calendar-month period. In no case
shall this experience be accumulated at the rate of less than twenty (20) hours
per week nor more than fifty (50) hours per week.
(9) All supervision must be acquired
subsequent to the receipt of the graduate degree. For the purpose of this rule,
the date of the receipt of the graduate degree shall be the date the degree was
conferred or awarded as set forth on the applicant's official academic
transcript or as verified by the academic registrar or other like school
official.
(10) The committee will
review, upon request, a trainee's proposed or current plan of post-degree
supervision to determine if the supervision is acceptable under this rule. All
requests shall be submitted on the forms provided by the committee and
accompanied by the prior review fee for post-degree supervision. All requests
must be submitted to the committee thirty (30) days prior to a regularly
scheduled committee meeting in order to be reviewed at that meeting.
(11) An applicant who has been denied
licensure as a result of inadequate post-degree supervision who wishes to
obtain prior review from the committee of his/her proposed plan for completing
the post-degree supervision deficiencies shall submit a request on the forms
provided by the committee accompanied with the prior review fee for post-degree
supervision. All requests must be submitted to the committee no later than
thirty (30) days prior to a regularly scheduled committee meeting in order to
be reviewed at that meeting. Upon satisfactory completion of the deficiencies,
the applicant shall reapply for licensure, submit the application fee and file
with the committee an official attestation form from the supervisor that
post-degree supervision deficiencies have been completed.
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