Rhode Island Code of Regulations
Title 216 - Department of health
Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation
Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing
Part 15 - Psychologists
Section 216-RICR-40-05-15.5 - Academic Requirements
Universal Citation: 216 RI Code of Rules 40 05 15.5
Current through September 18, 2024
15.5.1 Doctorate in Psychology
A. An
applicant for licensure shall hold a doctoral degree in psychology from a
regionally accredited college or university whose program of study was
accredited by the American Psychological Association, at the time such degree
was received, or its equivalent in terms of excellence of education and
training, or a doctorate degree in an allied field whose education and training
requirements are listed below:
1. Equivalency
to Doctorate in Psychology
a. An applicant
who has received a doctoral degree in a related discipline shall be judged to
hold the equivalent of a doctorate degree in psychology, if the following
equivalency requirements are met to the satisfaction of the Board:
(1) The program of study was an integrated,
organized sequence of study within or with an affiliated regionally accredited
college or university;
(2) A
minimum of thirty-six (36) credit hours shall be earned in residence at the
educational institution through in-person psychology instruction with multiple
program faculty and students;
(3)
At least seventy-two (72) semester hours or one hundred eight (108) quarter
hours of graduate course credits completed (excluding dissertation and
supervised experience credits) were predominantly psychological in nature and
encompassed courses equivalent to the program of study for psychologists whose
curriculum includes a minimum of three (3) academic years of full-time graduate
study, including instruction in scientific and professional ethics and
standards, research design and methodology, statistics and psychometrics,
history and systems of psychology and a major field of concentration. Within
this basic program should be included a minimum of three (3) or more graduate
semester hours or five (5) or more graduate quarter hours with demonstrated
competency in each of the following areas:
(AA) Biological Bases of Behavior: (e.g.,
physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation
and perception, psychopharmacology);
(BB) Cognitive-Affective Bases of Psychology:
(e.g., learning, thinking, emotion and motivation);
(CC) Social Bases of Behavior: (e.g., group
process, multiculturalism, organizational and systems theory); and
(DD) Individual Differences: (e.g.,
personality theory, human development, abnormal psychology).
(EE) The nature of the method and content of
the dissertation where required was psychologically oriented; and
(4) The supervised experience and
internship meets the requirements of sect; 15.6 of this Part.
(5) Distance learning programs shall only be
recognized as acceptable equivalents if accredited by the American
Psychological Association (APA).
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