New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner
Subchapter B - Regulation of Professions
Part 72 - Psychology
Section 72.2 - Experience
Universal Citation: 8 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 72.2
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) For licensure, an applicant shall present evidence satisfactory to the State Board for Psychology of two years of full-time supervised experience, or the part-time equivalent thereof, such experience to consist of 3,500 clock hours, in accordance with the requirements of this section. No more than one year of full-time supervised experience or its equivalent, consisting of 1,750 clock hours completed as part of the internship required as part of the doctoral degree, may be submitted to meet the experience requirement. The remaining experience must be completed after receipt of the qualifying doctoral degree.
(b) Content.
(1) The experience shall consist of a planned
programmed sequence of supervised employment or engagement in appropriate
psychology activities performed in accordance with the definition of the
practice of psychology contained in section
7601-a of the Education Law and
satisfactory in quality, breadth, scope and nature.
(2) In addition to other forms of
satisfactory experience, the department may accept up to one year of the
following:
(i) a university-approved
doctoral-level practicum, internship, field experience, or applied research
experience, any of which shall integrate psychological knowledge and
application, provided that the research experience shall not be part of the
applicant's dissertation or thesis requirement; and
(ii) teaching the subject of psychology as a
faculty member, provided that the teaching meets the requirements for
acceptable experience imposed by this section.
(c) Setting. For a setting to be acceptable, it shall meet the following requirements:
(1)
The setting shall provide services defined in the practice of psychology, as
set forth in section
7601-a of the Education Law. This may
include, but is not limited to:
(i) a
professional corporation, registered limited liability partnership, or
professional service limited liability company authorized to provide services
that are within the scope of practice of psychology;
(ii) a sole proprietorship owned by a
licensee who provides services that are within the scope of his or her
profession and services that are within the scope of practice of
psychology;
(iii) a professional
partnership owned by licensees who provide services that are within the scope
of practice of psychology;
(iv) a
program or service operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the department
of mental hygiene, the office of children and family services, the department
of corrections and community supervision, the office of temporary and
disability assistance, the state office for the aging and the department of
health or a local governmental unit as that term is defined in section
41.03 of the Mental Hygiene Law or a
social services district as defined in section
61 of the Social Services Law;
(v) an entity holding a waiver issued by the
Department pursuant to section
6503-a or
6503-b of the Education Law to provide
services that are within the scope of practice of psychology;
(vi) a program or facility authorized under
federal law to provide services that are within the scope of practice of
psychology; or
(vii) an entity
authorized under New York law or the laws of the jurisdiction in which the
entity is located to provide services that are within the scope of practice of
psychology;
(2) The
setting shall provide supervision by a qualified psychologist who is
responsible for the design, coordination, integrity, and quality of the
applicant's experience. The supervisor shall be the owner of, be employed by,
or be a consultant to the entity in which the experience occurs.
(3) The setting shall provide titles to the
unlicensed individuals gaining experience for licensure that conform to the
requirements set forth in section
7605 of
the Education Law. Employment titles which do not include the word psychology
or a derivation thereof may be used if the experience is consistent with the
definition of the practice of psychology in section
7601-a of the Education Law, as attested
to by the supervisor.
(4) The
setting in which the experience is gained shall be responsible for the services
provided by individuals gaining experience for licensure.
(d) Duration.
(1) Acceptable experience shall consist of a
continuous experience, except that experience in academic settings shall
consist of a continuous experience within a period of not less than one
semester and, in the case of teaching experience, shall consist of not less
than six credit hours per semester.
(2) Full-time experience shall consist of at
least 35 hours per week, and not more than 45 hours per week.
(3) Part-time experience shall consist of at
least 16 hours per week but not more than 34 hours per week, which shall be
distributed over at least two days.
(e) Supervision.
(1) Supervision shall be provided by a
psychologist licensed in the jurisdiction where the supervised experience
occurs. The supervisor shall be the owner of, be employed by, or be a
consultant to the entity in which the experience occurs. In all settings in New
York State, including an exempt setting, as defined in section
7605(1) of the Education
Law, the supervisor shall be licensed and registered to practice psychology
under Article 153 of the Education Law or have qualifications satisfactory to
the department, based on a review of factors which include but are not limited
to: educational attainment of the supervisor and position held by the
supervisor.
(2) For experience to
be acceptable, the following requirements shall apply:
(i) For every full-time experience,
supervision shall occur weekly and shall include one hour per week of
face-to-face individual supervision pertaining to services rendered and one
additional hour of supervision which shall be either face-to-face supervision,
group supervision, seminars or workshops, or apprenticeship
activities.
(ii) For every
part-time experience, applicants shall have two hours of supervision within
every two week period, one hour of which shall be face-to-face supervision; and
one hour of which shall either be face-to-face supervision, group supervision,
seminars or workshops, or apprenticeship activities.
(iii) Face-to-face supervision as used in
subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this subparagraph may utilize technology
acceptable to the department, including secure video-conferencing to protect
confidentiality.
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