Section 415-4-1 - EducationThe applicant must possess a doctoral degree in psychology that met any of the following criteria at the time the degree was awarded:
1. APA AccreditationThe program is accredited by the APA.
2. CPA AccreditationThe program is accredited by the CPA.
3. NASP ApprovalThe program is approved by NASP at the doctoral level.
4. Programs Not Accredited or Approved by APA, CPA or NASPThe program is listed as designated in "Doctoral Psychology Programs Meeting Designation Criteria," published periodically by the ASPPB/NR Joint Designation Program, through having satisfied criteria 2-10 of "Guidelines for Defining a Doctoral Degree in Psychology" utilized by the ASPPB/NR Joint Designation Program,
OR
the program meets all of the following criteria:
A.Doctoral training in professional psychology is doctoral training offered in a regionally accredited institution of higher education. A regionally accredited institution is an institution with regional accreditation in the United States, an institution with provincial authorization in Canada, or in other countries, an institution that is accredited by a body that is deemed by the board to be performing a function equivalent to U.S. regional accrediting bodies;B.The program, wherever it may be administratively housed, must be clearly identified and labeled as a psychology program. Such a program must specify in pertinent institutional catalogs and brochures its intent to educate and train professional psychologists;C.The psychology program must stand as a recognizable, coherent organizational entity within the institution;D.There must be a clear authority and primary responsibility for the core and specialty areas whether or not the program cuts across administrative lines;E.The program must be an integrated, organized sequence of study;F.There must be an identifiable psychology faculty sufficient in size and breadth to carry out its responsibilities and an identified psychologist responsible for the program. The faculty must be located on site at the campus where students complete the 2 years of full-time residency required by paragraph I below;G.The program must have an identifiable body of students who are matriculated in that program for a degree;H.The program must include a coordinated practicum of at least two semesters in duration, and 1 year of predoctoral supervised experience (i.e., internship) that meets the requirements of Section 2 of this chapter;I.The curriculum must encompass a minimum of 3 academic years of full-time graduate study that includes a minimum of 2 years full-time residency at the educational institution granting the doctoral degree. The core program must require every student to demonstrate competence in each of the following substantive areas. This typically will be met through substantial instruction in each of these foundational areas, as demonstrated by a minimum of 3 graduate semester hours, 5 or more graduate quarter hours (when an academic term is other than a semester, credit hours will be evaluated on the basis of 15 hours of classroom instruction per semester hour), or the equivalent: (1) Scientific and professional ethics and standards;(2) Research design and methodology;(5) Biological bases of behavior: physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation and perception, and psychopharmacology;(6) Cognitive-affective bases of behavior: learning, thinking, motivation, and emotion;(7) Social bases of behavior: social psychology, group processes, organizational and systems theory;(8) Individual differences: personality theory, human development, and abnormal psychology; and(9) Applied psychology: e.g., forensic, therapy techniques, neuropsychology, industrial organizational, school.