Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment deletes subsection (3)(G) as
it is no longer needed as many Missouri universities now issue pass/fail
grades.
(1) A person applying
for licensure as a psychologist pursuant to section
337.025,
RSMo, and who does not engage in the delivery of psychological health services
as defined in 20 CSR 2235-1.015, shall be
governed by the following: possession of a doctoral degree in psychology as
defined in section 337.025.3, RSMo.
(2) A person applying for licensure as a
psychologist pursuant to section
337.025,
RSMo, and who will engage in the delivery of psychological health services as
defined in 20 CSR 2235-1.015, shall be
governed by the following:
(A) Possession of
a doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology as defined in sections
337.025.3 and
337.033.3,
RSMo; or
(B) Possession of a
doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology from a respecialization
program as defined in section 337.033.3 and 4, RSMo.
(3) The following criteria shall be used by
the committee in evaluating the acceptability of course work obtained in the
graduate program of the applicant seeking licensure pursuant to section
337.025.3(3) or
337.033.4(3),
RSMo:
(A) Each course must be an in-depth
study solely devoted to a particular core area. No core area credit will be
given for a course which contains only components or some aspects of a core
area;
(B) A course will be counted
only once in granting credit for a core area;
(C) No core course credit will be given for
practice, workshops, continuing education, applied courses, experiential
courses, readings courses, independent studies or correspondence
courses;
(D) Credit will be given
for seminar courses only if the applicant provides substantiation through
satisfactory evidence that the course was an in-depth study solely devoted to a
particular core area. This substantiation may be shown through one (1) or more
of the following:
1. Course descriptions in
official school catalogs;
2. Course
syllabi; or
3. A signed written
statement from a graduate dean, department chair or professor who taught the
class that the course was an in-depth study solely devoted to a particular core
area and that the course included lectures and discussions concerning a wide
range of the key topics in that core area;
(E) Titles of course work on official
transcripts which are not clear to the committee must be substantiated with
satisfactory evidence. This substantiation may be shown through one (1) or more
of the following:
1. Course descriptions in
official school catalogs;
2. Course
syllabi; or
3. A signed written
statement from a graduate dean, department chair or professor who taught the
class that the course was an indepth study solely devoted to a particular core
area and that the course included lectures and discussions concerning a wide
range of the key topics in that core area; and
(F) The committee will not count
undergraduate level courses taken by an applicant as meeting any academic
requirements unless the applicant's official graduate transcript clearly shows
that the course was awarded graduate credit by the school or that a competency
examination was successfully passed in that particular core area and is clearly
shown on the transcript.
(4) The applicant, upon request, shall
furnish to the committee satisfactory evidence that the degree is a doctoral
degree in psychology.
(A) Satisfactory
evidence shall be competent and substantial evidence admissible in the courts
of Missouri establishing that the degree is a doctoral degree in
psychology.
(B) Failure by the
applicant to submit that evidence shall constitute evidence that the degree is
not a doctoral degree in psychology.
(5) One year's residency as used in section
337.025.3(h), RSMo is defined as-at least nine (9) hours of weekly face-to-face
psychological instruction, supervision, and/or consultation with multiple
program faculty and students at the educational institution for a minimum of
one (1) year.
*Original authority: 337.025, RSMo 1977, amended 1989,
1998; 337.033, RSMo 1989, amended 1998; 337.050, RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989,
1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999.
