Current through Register Vol. 18, September 20, 2024
(1) Applicants seeking licensure via
37-17-302(3)(c),
MCA, must have their courses of study assessed by a board-approved evaluator to
ensure compliance with minimum standards in this rule.
(a) The board shall consider, but is not
bound by, the evaluator's recommendation.
(b) Applicants must pay any fee required by
the evaluator.
(2) Per
37-17-302(3)(c),
MCA, a psychology program meets minimum standards if the program:
(a) is administratively housed and clearly
identified as a psychology program with emphasis in applied areas such as
clinical, counseling, school, or industrial-organizational
psychology;
(b) stands as a
recognizable, coherent organizational entity within the institution;
(c) has clear authority and primary
responsibility for the core and specialty areas whether or not the program cuts
across administrative lines;
(d)
follows an organized sequence of study to provide an integrated psychology
education experience;
(e) has an
identifiable psychology faculty and a psychologist responsible for the
program;
(f) has an identifiable
body of students who are matriculated in that program for a degree;
(g) includes appropriate supervised clinical
experience of at least three terms/two semesters;
(h) contains a curriculum of a minimum of
three academic years of full-time graduate study with a pre-doctoral internship
per 24.189.644 at the educational
institution granting the doctoral degree. The curriculum must instruct in
scientific and professional ethics and standards, research design and
methodology, statistics, and psychometrics, and require students demonstrate
competence (a minimum of three or more graduate semester hours/five or more
graduate quarter hours) in each of these substantive content areas:
(i) Biological bases of behavior:
physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation
and perception, psychopharmacology;
(ii) Cognitive-affective bases of behavior:
learning, thinking, motivation, emotion;
(iii) Social bases of behavior: social
psychology, group processes, organizational and systems theory; and
(iv) Individual differences: personality
theory, human development, abnormal psychology;
(i) includes adequate training in
psychodiagnosis and several types of psychological assessment and intervention
procedures and their theoretical bases; and
(j) includes at least 60 quarter hours/40
semester hours of formal psychology graduate study.
(i) No more than 15 quarter hours/ten
semester hours of university extension credits may be credited toward the
doctoral degree requirement.
(ii)
Of the 60 quarter hours, a minimum of 45 quarter hours/30 semester hours must
occur when the applicant is matriculated in the doctoral program and be clearly
designated on the transcript as graduate level psychology course work,
exclusive of practicum, dissertation, and transfer
credits.
(3)
The board and its evaluator have reviewed several applications containing
doctoral degrees from American Psychological Association-approved doctoral
programs in school psychology and counseling psychology. The board deems these
programs qualified under the required minimum standards.
AUTH:
37-1-131,
37-17-202,
37-17-302, MCA IMP:
37-1-131,
37-17-302,
MCA
