N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 8 § 72.2

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 72.2 - Experience

(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.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 8 § 72.2

Amended New York State Register June 24, 2020/Volume XLII, Issue 25, eff. 6/24/2020

Amended New York State Register March 30, 2022/Volume XLIV, Issue 13, eff. 3/30/2022