N.M. Admin. Code § 16.22.12.9 - EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
A.
An applicant who received a master's degree prior to July 1, 1985, shall hold a
master's degree from a department of psychology in a school or college as
defined in the Professional Psychologist Act or a master's degree which is
primarily psychological in nature from a school or college whose program had
substantially equivalent requirements as those set forth in this
rule.
B. An applicant who received
a master's degree after July 1, 1985, shall hold a master's degree from a
department of psychology, counseling psychology, or school psychology in a
school or college as defined in the Professional Psychologist Act.
C. The applicant shall show that his program
of graduate studies included a minimum of three (3) graduate semester hours
(six (6) graduate quarter hours) directly related to psychological theory in
three of the nine following content areas (no course may be counted for more
than two areas):
(1) biological aspects of
behavior: physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology,
sensation and perception, psychopharmacology, biological bases of
development;
(2) cognitive and
affective aspects of behavior: learning, thinking, motivation, emotion, and
cognitive development;
(3) social
aspects of behavior: social psychology, group processes, community psychology,
social development, organizational and systems theory;
(4) human development: developmental
psychology, human development, lifespan development, and developmental
psychopathology;
(5) individual
differences: personality theory, human development, and abnormal
psychology;
(6) professional and
scientific ethics and standards: professional and ethical problems in clinical,
counseling, or school psychology, legal, ethical, and professional issues in
psychotherapy or counseling;
(7)
research design, methodology, statistics, and data analysis: research methods
in clinical, counseling, or school psychology; research design in psychology;
statistical analysis in psychology; multivariate statistical methods;
(8) cultural competence, as deemed
satisfactory to the board, multicultural counseling, counseling the culturally
different, feminist psychology, counseling gay and lesbian populations,
treating persons with disabilities;
(9) methods of assessment and diagnosis:
psychological assessment, clinical diagnosis, and intellectual and personality
assessment.
D. The
applicant shall have completed at least two (2) semesters (or four (4) quarter
hours) of clinical, counseling, or school psychology practicum.
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