Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A.
Supervised
experience leading toward licensure:
(1) two years (3,000 hours) of supervised
experience are required for licensure;
(a) up
to one year (1500 hours) of the supervised experience may be obtained in
practicum hours overseen by the doctoral training program and consistent with
the guidelines on practicum experience for licensure promulgated by the
association of state and provincial psychology board; and
(b) up to one year (1500 hours) of the
supervised experience may be obtained in a doctoral internship approved by the
American psychological association; or
(c) up to one-half year (750 hours) of the
supervised experience may be obtained in a doctoral internship not approved by
the American psychological association; and
(d) after totaling approved doctoral
practicum hours and allowed hours for doctoral internship, the remainder of the
(3000 hours) supervised experience must be obtained in supervised postdoctoral
psychological work.
(2)
doctoral and postdoctoral experience from all supervisors shall be documented
on forms provided by the board.
B.
Practicum experience.
Practicum training is an organized, sequential series of supervised experiences
of increasing complexity, serving to prepare the student for internship and
partially meeting the requirements for licensure. Training experiences shall
follow appropriate academic preparation and shall be overseen by the doctoral
training program. Not all supervised experience accumulated during graduate
training may count toward licensure. The board requires that all practicum
experiences counting toward licensure be of high quality and carefully approved
and monitored by the doctoral training program. In particular, these
experiences should advance the doctoral student's role and identity as a
psychologist. All experiences counting toward licensure must be supervised one
hour per week by a licensed psychologist or clinical faculty member who is
allowed to practice psychology under the laws of the state. The director of
clinical training of the doctoral training program, or designee of that
program's chair, shall certify, in a form satisfactory to the board, that the
hours meet the following specifications of type of clinical activity and
supervision:
(1) The practicum setting was
approved by, integrated with and monitored by the doctoral training
program;
(2) The hours were
obtained in the course of an organized, sequential series of supervised
experiences of increasing complexity, serving to prepare the student for
internship and partially meeting the requirements for licensure.
(3) Supervised practicum experience occurred
in psychological service settings that had, as part of the organizational
mission, a goal of training professional psychologists.
(4) Each practicum setting had an identified,
licensed psychologist who was responsible for maintaining the integrity and
quality of the experience for each trainee. The doctoral training program shall
assign a licensed psychologist to serve in this role if none is available on
site.
(5) All supervisors were
qualified by education, licensure and experience to provide supervision of
doctoral students.
(6) Where
experiences counted for licensure were obtained in various settings, each
setting was an appropriate experience in itself, the particular student was
academically prepared for that experience and the combination of experiences
was appropriate to the student's training needs.
(7) The following clinical experiences and
supervision were present across settings:
(a)
At least fifty percent of the total hours of supervised experience were in
service-related activities, defined as treatment/intervention, assessment,
interviews, report-writing, case presentations, and consultations.
(b) At least twenty-five percent of the total
hours were face-to-face patient/client contact.
(c) Supervision by a licensed psychologist or
clinical faculty member who is allowed to practice psychology under the laws of
the state was at least one hour for each day (eight hours including the
supervision; 12 and a half percent of total) of supervised experience for
experienced students. Telesupervision is equivalent to face to face
supervision. The doctoral training program shall assure that higher levels of
supervision are provided for less experienced students. All supervision time,
whether individual or group, including additional supervision beyond that may
be counted as part of the total supervised experience.
(8) The board requires that all predoctoral
practicum experiences counting toward licensure be of high quality and
carefully approved and monitored by the doctoral training program. In
particular, these experiences should advance the doctoral student's role and
identity as a psychologist.
(9) The
board may, at its discretion, require documentation that above system of
training was in place for the applicant. Possible forms of documentation
include but are not limited to:
(a) individual
written training plans between the doctoral training program and each practicum
training cite;
(b) policies and
procedures of the doctoral training program designating the expectations for
practicum training sequences;
(c)
program descriptions or self-study documents submitted for program approval to
the American psychological association or the American association of state and
provincial psychology boards.
C.
Internship or fellowship accredited
by a nationally recognized accreditation body. If the doctoral or
postdoctoral experience is obtained in an internship or fellowship accredited
by a nationally recognized accreditation body, a board form completed by the
director of training will satisfy the requirement of certifying all supervision
received during the internship or fellowship.
D.
Internship not accredited by a
nationally recognized accreditation body. If the predoctoral experience
is obtained in an internship that is not accredited by a nationally recognized
accreditation body, it will be counted for 750 hours of the required 3,000
hours if it meets the following criteria:
(1)
the agency or institution offers internship education and training in
psychology, one goal of which is to prepare applicants for the practice of
professional psychology;
(2) the
internship program is sponsored by an institution or agency, which has among
its primary functions the provision of service to a population of recipients
sufficient in number and variability to provide interns with adequate
experiential exposure to meet its training purposes, goals, and
objectives;
(3) the internship is
completed within 24 consecutive months at a minimum of 20 hours per week:
(a) an internship that involves more than one
agency, organization, or institution will be accepted if the primary supervisor
and the applicant can demonstrate that the internship program is organized
under a unifying or coordinating structure (e.g. a consortium with a core
clinical faculty) and central leadership (e.g., one director of training or
central supervisor overseeing the entire internship program and the supervision
of the intern);
(b) internships
consisting of less than 20 hours per week will not be accepted;
(4) the director of clinical
training of the applicant's doctoral training program certifies in a manner
acceptable to the board that the internship was approved as part of the degree
requirements for obtaining the doctoral degree.
E.
Postdoctoral supervised practice
leading toward licensure.
(1) The
applicant may complete a doctoral supervised practicum up to 1500 hours and a
doctoral internship up to 1500 hours before completing the doctorate. Depending
on the number of hours of doctoral supervised experience, the applicant shall
complete the remainder of the required 3,000 hours through postdoctoral
supervision.
(2) If the applicant
is completing postdoctoral hours in New Mexico, the applicant shall submit a
postdoctoral supervisory plan to the board for review before beginning
supervised practice. Once a plan for supervision is submitted to the board, the
board or a designated board member will respond in writing to the acceptability
of such a plan within 60 days. If the plan is found unacceptable, the board or
a designated board member will specify the areas of deficiency based on the
guidelines specified in Part 3. If the board approves the plan, the applicant
will be assured that postdoctoral experience, if completed according to the
plan, will meet the postdoctoral requirements and the applicant will be
registered as participating in an approved supervision program.
(3) If the applicant is completing
postdoctoral hours outside New Mexico, a supervisory plan is
optional.
(4) If the applicant does
not obtain a board-approved postdoctoral supervisory plan, the applicant shall
submit documentation of the postdoctoral supervised practice after its
completion. However, if the board does not approve this experience, part or all
of the postdoctoral supervised experience shall be repeated. In this case, the
board will require the applicant to submit a supervisory plan, and the
supervisory plan must be approved by the board before the applicant's
supervised practice begins.
