Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING
Agency 125 - BOARD OF PSYCHOLOGY
Chapter 20 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHOLOGY
Part I - General Provisions
Section 18VAC125-20-10 - Definitions
The following words and terms, in addition to the words and terms defined in §§ 54.1-3600 and 54.1-3606.2 of the Code of Virginia, when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"APA" means the American Psychological Association.
"APPIC" means the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers.
"ASPPB" means the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards.
"Board" means the Virginia Board of Psychology.
"CAEP" means Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation.
"Compact" means the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact.
"Conversion therapy" means any practice or treatment as defined in § 54.1-2409.5 A of the Code of Virginia.
"CPA" means Canadian Psychological Association.
"Demonstrable areas of competence" means those therapeutic and assessment methods and techniques for the populations served and for which one can document adequate graduate training, workshops, or appropriate supervised experience.
"E. Passport" means a certificate issued by ASPPB that authorizes telepsychology services in a compact state.
"Face-to-face" means in person.
"Intern" means an individual who is enrolled in a professional psychology program internship.
"Internship" means an ongoing, supervised, and organized practical experience obtained in an integrated training program identified as a psychology internship. Other supervised experience or on-the-job training does not constitute an internship.
"IPC" means an interjurisdictional practice certificate issued by ASPPB that grants temporary authority to practice in a compact state.
"NASP" means the National Association of School Psychologists.
"Practicum" means the pre-internship clinical experience that is part of a graduate educational program.
"Practicum student" means an individual who is enrolled in a professional psychology program and is receiving pre-internship training and seeing clients.
"Professional psychology program" means an integrated program of doctoral study in clinical or counseling psychology or a master's degree or higher program in school psychology designed to train professional psychologists to deliver services in psychology.
"Regional accrediting agency" means one of the six regional accrediting agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education established to accredit senior institutions of higher education.
"Residency" means a post-internship, post-terminal degree, supervised experience approved by the board.
"Resident" means an individual who has received a doctoral degree in a clinical or counseling psychology program or a master's degree or higher in school psychology and is completing a board-approved residency.
"School psychologist-limited" means a person licensed pursuant to § 54.1-3606 of the Code of Virginia to provide school psychology services solely in public school divisions.
"Supervision" means the ongoing process performed by a supervisor who monitors the performance of the person supervised and provides regular, documented individual consultation, guidance, and instruction with respect to the skills and competencies of the person supervised.
"Supervisor" means an individual who assumes responsibility for the education and training activities of a person under supervision and for the care of such person's clients and who provides supervision consistent with the training and experience of both the supervisor and the person under supervision and with the type of services being provided.
Statutory Authority: §§ 54.1-2400 and 54.1-3605 of the Code of Virginia.
