Arizona Administrative Code
Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS
Chapter 26 - BOARD OF PSYCHOLOGIST EXAMINERS
Article 2 - LICENSURE
Section R4-26-210 - Supervised Professional Experience

Universal Citation: AZ Admin Code R 4-26-210

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 52, December 27, 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.

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