Code of Maine Rules › 02 - DEPARTMENT OF PROFESSIONAL AND FINANCIAL REGULATION › 415 - STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PSYCHOLOGISTS › Chapter 5 - LICENSURE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINERS › Section 415-5-1 - Education

Current through 2024-29, July 17, 2024
The applicant must possess a master's degree in psychology
				  that at the time the degree was awarded met either of the following
				  criteria:
1.
NASP
				Approval
The program is approved by NASP at the specialist
				  level.
2.
Master's
				Degree Programs
The program meets all of the following criteria:
A.Master's level training in professional
				psychology is master's level 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 as a psychology program.
				Such a program must specify in pertinent institutional catalogs and brochures
				its intent to educate and train psychological examiners (i.e., master's level
				psychologists);
C.The psychology
				program must stand as a recognizable and coherent organizational entity within
				the institution;
D.There must be
				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 1 year of full-time
				residency required by paragraph J 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, and 1 year of supervised experience that meets the requirements of
				Section
				2 of this chapter;
I.For master's degrees awarded prior to June
				2, 1994, the program consisted of a minimum of 36 credit hours of graduate work
				in psychology. For master's degrees awarded on or after June 2, 1994, the
				program consisted of a minimum of 48 credit hours of graduate work in
				psychology; and
J.The curriculum
				must encompass a minimum of 2 academic years of full time graduate study that
				includes a minimum of 1 year's full-time residency at the educational
				institution granting the master's degree. The core program must require every
				student to demonstrate competence in each of the substantive areas listed in
				subparagraphs (1) - (7) below. 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) Professional ethics and
				standards of practice;
(2) Research
				design, methodology and statistics;
(3) Assessment (e.g., measurement theory,
				psychological testing, clinical diagnosis);
(4) Biological basis of behavior (e.g.,
				physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation
				and perception, psychopharmacology);
(5) Cognitive-affective basis of behavior
				(e.g., learning, thinking, motivation, emotion);
(6) Social basis of behavior (e.g., social
				psychology, group processes, organizational behavior, systems theory, family
				dynamics, cultural psychology); and
(7) Individual differences (e.g., personality
				theory, human development, abnormal psychology).