N.D. Admin Code 66-02-01-11.1 - Supervised professional experience

1. Applicants for licensure as a psychologist must complete one thousand five hundred hours of supervised predoctoral internship in the practice of psychology. At least one hundred hours of supervision is required, at least fifty of which must be one to one. Successful completion of an American psychological association or Canadian psychological association accredited internship will be accepted as fulfilling this requirement. Any other supervised predoctoral internship experience must be described in detail by the applicant, including nature of service setting or settings, nature of consumers served, nature and amount of supervision, and specific skills in which the applicant demonstrated proficiency on forms provided by the board. The supervisor or supervisors must corroborate the areas of competence claimed by the applicant. In addition, an applicant for licensure as a psychologist must complete one or a combination of the following:

a. One thousand five hundred hours of supervised postdoctoral experience in the practice of psychology. At least one hundred hours of supervision is required, at least fifty of which must be one to one with a psychologist licensed in good standing. Successful completion of an American psychological association or Canadian psychological association accredited postdoctoral program will be accepted as fulfilling this requirement. Any other supervised postdoctoral experience must be described in detail by the applicant, including nature of service setting or settings, nature of consumers served, nature and amount of supervision, and specific skills in which the applicant demonstrated proficiency on forms provided by the board. The supervisor or supervisors must corroborate the areas of competence claimed by the applicant.

b. One thousand five hundred hours of additional supervised predoctoral training experience in the practice of psychology. At least one hundred hours of supervision is required, at least fifty of which must be one to one with a psychologist licensed in good standing. In addition, this training experience must meet all of the following requirements:

(1) Be part of a doctoral program that meets requirements of subdivision b of subsection 1 of North Dakota Century Code section 43-32-20.

(2) Be completed within six years of the award of the terminal doctoral degree.

(3) Be completed within ten years of first application for licensure.

(4) Be completed following any introductory practicum experience in applied professional psychology or psychotherapy of a minimum duration of six hundred hours.

(5) Be part of an individualized written plan for an organized, sequential series of supervised experiences of increasing complexity.

(6) Occur outside of the classroom setting and involve the trainee's direct delivery of supervised psychological services in a practice, agency, institution, counseling center, graduate training clinic, or other setting approved by the director of training or designee.

(7) Consist of activities defined as the practice of psychology by subsection 6 of North Dakota Century Code section 43-32-01.

(8) Occur in placements that are made or approved in advance by the doctoral program director of training or designee.

(9) Occur in placements in which a licensed psychologist is directly responsible for the integrity and quality of the training experience and specifies training objectives in terms of the competencies expected of the trainee.

(10) Have an identifiable licensed psychologist who serves as the primary supervisor of the trainee, is clearly available to and professionally responsible for the trainee's clients or patients, has been licensed for at least three years, and is licensed in the jurisdiction in which the training occurs.

(11) Be part of a sequential training plan that consists of no less than thirty weeks with a weekly onsite presence of no less than fifteen hours.

(12) Provide, on average, weekly individual face-to-face supervision, which may include remote face-to-face audio and video interactions, devoted to the trainee's cases at a ratio of no less than one hour per fifteen hours onsite and no less than one hour per week. No less than fifty percent of the supervision required in this paragraph shall be provided by the primary supervisor. The remaining face-to-face supervision required in this paragraph may be individual or group supervision provided by a licensed psychologist who has been licensed for at least three years. Supplemental individual or group supervision in excess of the minimum ratio required is encouraged, and may be provided by a psychologist, school psychologist, other licensed mental health professional, or a psychology trainee under an umbrella supervision arrangement, but it may not replace the weekly individual face-to-face supervision requirements.

(13) May include the use of secure remote technologies, such as telephone, internet, or online communications as a supplemental training and consultation aid and for supervision in excess of the minimum ratio required, although it may not replace the minimum weekly face-to-face individual supervision requirement.

(14) Must include on average at least one additional hour per week in learning activities, such as additional face-to-face individual supervision, group supervision, case conference or grand rounds, didactic consultations with psychologists or other appropriate licensed mental health professionals, guided professional readings, seminars, or cotherapy with a licensed psychologist or other appropriate professional.

(15) Must include regularly scheduled and documented interaction concerning the trainee's progress between the primary supervisor and the director of training at the graduate program or designee, and copies of such documentation will be provided to the board for review upon request.

2. Applicants for licensure as an industrial-organizational psychologist must complete three thousand hours of supervised experience in the practice of industrial-organizational psychology. At least one thousand five hundred hours must be completed after the granting of the doctoral degree. Applicants must submit an individualized supervision plan that is subject to approval by the board. Supervisors of industrial-organizational psychologist applicants must be licensed in their jurisdiction of practice. The supervised experience of applicants for licensure as an industrial-organizational psychologist must be consistent with the applicant's intended area of practice.

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N.D. Admin Code 66-02-01-11.1

Effective September 1, 2000; amended effective April 1, 2007; October 1, 2011; July 1, 2012. Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2016-360, April 2016, effective 4/1/2016. Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 369, July 2018, effective 7/1/2018.

General Authority: NDCC 43-32-08

Law Implemented: NDCC 43-32-20, 43-32-20.1