Alaska Administrative Code › Title 12 - Professional Regulations › Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing › Chapter 60 - Board of Psychologist and Psychological Associate Examiners › Article 8 - General Provisions › 12 AAC 60.990 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) In this chapter and AS 08.86:
(1) "accredited school" means a school which
				  is accredited by any regional accrediting agency recognized by the American
				  Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Offices;
(2) "appropriate supervision" means
				  supervision by a licensed psychologist who is responsible for insuring that the
				  extent, kind, and quality of the psychological services performed are
				  consistent with the training and experience of the supervised person and
				  supervision that is consistent with
(A) the
				  standards established in
				  12 AAC 60.185; or
(B) the alternate supervision plan accepted
				  by the board under
				  12 AAC 60.080(c);
(3) "professional incompetence" means lacking
				  sufficient knowledge, skills, or professional judgement in a field of practice
				  in which a psychologist or psychological associate engages, to a degree likely
				  to endanger the mental health or well-being of patients;
(4) "reasonable cause or excusable neglect"
				  means
(A) chronic illness;
(B) retirement;
(C) military service; and
(D) hardships as individually determined by
				  the board;
(5) "technical
				  meeting" means a professional meeting incorporating formal written or oral
				  presentations of psychology related research, theory, or applied
				  topics;
(6) "supervised experience"
				  includes direct client contact and preparation for direct client contact, staff
				  meetings, case conferences, report writing, co-therapy, in-service training,
				  and psychodiagnostic assessment;
(7) "division" means the division assigned
				  occupational licensing functions within the department;
(8) "EPPP examination" means the Examination
				  for Professional Practice in Psychology administered by the Professional
				  Examination Service;
(9) "direct
				  services" means activities performed by a psychologist or psychological
				  associate that are directly related to providing psychological services to a
				  patient, including individual and family psychotherapy, psychological testing,
				  report writing, studying test results, case consultations, and reviewing
				  published works relating to the patient's needs;
(10) "learning activities" means professional
				  development activities approved by the supervisor who signed the applicant's
				  supervision plan, including individual readings, reading groups, consultation
				  groups, college or university short courses, mail or internet-based education
				  activities, facilitated discussion groups, topic-relevant audio and video
				  presentations, workshops, seminars, and symposia.
(11) "distance professional services" means
				  the mode of delivering psychological services while physically separate from
				  the recipient by means of technology-assisted media, including telephone,
				  video, Internet, smartphone, tablet, desktop system, or other electronic
				  means.