Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
A. The Board shall
use the following criteria to determine whether an applicant's supervised
preinternship professional experience complies with A.R.S. §
32-2071(E):
1. The supervised preinternship professional
experience was part of the applicant's doctoral program from an institution of
higher education that meets the standards in A.R.S. §
32-2071(A);
2. The applicant completed appropriate
academic preparation before beginning the supervised preinternship professional
experience. The Board shall not include any assessment or treatment conducted
as part of the required academic preparation in the hours of supervised
preinternship professional experience; and
3. For each supervised preinternship
professional experience training site, the applicant has a written training
plan with both the training site and the institution of higher education at
which the applicant is pursuing a doctoral degree that includes at least the
following:
a. Training activities included and
the amount of time allotted to each activity,
b. Goals and objectives of each training
activity,
c. Methods of evaluating
the supervisee and the supervised preinternship professional experiences
provided,
d. Approval of all
individuals providing supervision at sites external to the training
site,
e. Total number of hours to
be accrued during the supervised preinternship professional
experience,
f. Total number of
hours of face-to-face contact hours with clients or patients during the
supervised preinternship professional experience,
g. Total number of hours of supervision
during the supervised preinternship professional experience,
h. Qualifications of all individuals who
provide supervision during the supervised preinternship professional
experience, and
i. Acknowledgment
that ethics training will be included in all activities.
B. The Board shall use the
following criteria to determine whether an applicant's internship or training
program qualifies as supervised professional experience under A.R.S. §
32-2071(F):
1. The written statement required under
A.R.S. §
32-2071(F)(9):
a. Was established no later than the time the
applicant entered the internship or training program; and
b. Corresponds to the internship or training
program the applicant completed;
2. A supervisor was directly available to the
applicant when decisions were made regarding emergency psychological services
provided to a client or patient as required under A.R.S. §
32-2071(F)(2);
3. Course work used to satisfy the
requirements of A.R.S. §
32-2071(A) or
dissertation time is not credited toward the face-to-face, individual
supervision time required by A.R.S. §
32-2071(F)(6);
4. The two hours a week of other learning
activities required under A.R.S. §
32-2071(F)(6)
include one or more of the following:
a. Case
conferences involving a case in which the applicant was actively involved,
b. Seminars involving clinical
issues,
c. Co-therapy with a
professional staff person including discussion,
d. Group supervision, or
e. Additional individual
supervision;
5. The
training program had the applicant work with other doctoral level psychology
trainees and included in the written statement required under A.R.S. §
32-2071(F)(9) a
description of the program policy specifying the opportunities and resources
provided to the applicant for working or interacting with other doctoral level
psychology trainees in the same or other sites; and
6. Time spent fulfilling academic degree
requirements, such as course work applied to the doctoral degree, practicum,
field laboratory, dissertation, or thesis credit, is not credited toward the
1,500 hours of supervised professional experience hours required by A.R.S.
§
32-2071(F). This
subsection does not restrict a student from participating in activities
designed to fulfill other doctoral degree requirements. However, the Board
shall not credit time spent participating in activities to fulfill academic
degree requirements toward the hours required under A.R.S. §
32-2071(F).
C. Under A.R.S. §
32-2071(G)(5), at
least 40 percent of an applicant's supervised postdoctoral experience shall
involve direct client or patient contact. If an applicant's supervised
postdoctoral hours applied toward licensure include less than 40 percent direct
contact hours, the applicant shall work additional time to achieve the required
percentage of direct contact hours. While additional direct contact hours may
be obtained to meet this requirement, the Board shall count no more than 1,500
hours of total postdoctoral experience for the purpose of licensure.
D. An applicant shall ensure the written
training plan required under A.R.S. §
32-2071(G)(7) is
from the organization at which the supervised postdoctoral professional
experience is occurring and includes the following:
1. Goal and content of each training
experience;
2. Expectations
regarding the nature, quality, and quantity of work to be done by the
supervisee during the supervised postdoctoral professional
experience;
3. Methods of
evaluation the supervisee and the supervised postdoctoral professional
experience;
4. Total number of
hours to be accrued during the supervised postdoctoral professional
experience;
5. Total number of
face-to-face contact hours the supervisee is to have with clients or patients
during the supervised postdoctoral professional experience;
6. Total number of hours of supervision the
supervisee is to receive during the supervised postdoctoral professional
experience;
7. Qualifications of
all individuals who provide supervision during the supervised postdoctoral
professional experience including documentation that each is qualified under
the standards at A.R.S. §
32-2071(G);
and
8. Acknowledgement that ethics
training is included in the supervised postdoctoral professional
experience.
