Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 2235 - State Committee of Psychologists › Chapter 1 - General Rules › Section 20 CSR 2235-1.015 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule establishes various definitions
				  and terms used in these rules.
(1) Post-degree supervised professional
				experience. The purpose and intention of post-degree supervised experience is
				to provide experiential training in the practice of psychology in order to meet
				the requirements for licensure. It is not designed to enable a person to engage
				in the practice of psychology without a license. Post-degree supervised
				professional experience is more than a consultation or supervisory
				session.
(2) Psychological trainee.
				A person enrolled in a graduate program in psychology and performing functions
				as a part of his/her graduate training or practicum.
(3) Psychological intern. A person possessing
				a master's degree in psychology as defined in section
				337.021
				or
				337.025,
				RSMo and enrolled in a doctoral program in psychology and serving as an intern
				as part of the requirements for his/her degree program, or a person enrolled in
				a doctoral program in psychology and serving as an intern as part of the
				requirements for his/her degree program.
(4) Psychological resident. A person
				possessing a doctoral degree in psychology as defined in section
				337.025,
				RSMo who is engaged in post-degree supervised professional experience in order
				to obtain licensure as a psychologist.
(5) Psychological assistant. A person who has
				received formal approval by the committee as having met the educational and
				post-degree professional experience requirements but has not yet met the
				examination requirements for licensure as a psychologist.
(6) Qualified assistant. Any person employed
				by or otherwise directly accountable to a licensed psychologist and who assists
				the licensed psychologist in the delivery of psychological services but whose
				employment is not in the course of pursuing the educational, professional
				supervised experience or examination requirements for licensure as a
				psychologist.
(7) Provisionally
				licensed psychologist. A psychological resident or psychological assistant who
				has met the requirements for and has been issued a provisional license under
				section 337.020.4, RSMo.
(8)
				Applicant. Any person who submits an application for licensure and pays the
				appropriate application fee to be licensed as a psychologist.
(9) Psychological health services. The
				assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of an individual(s) for the purposes of
				remediation of a cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or mental
				disorder.
(10) Psychological health
				service provider. A licensed psychologist who possesses health service provider
				certification through relevant education, training, and experience as defined
				in
				20 CSR
				2235-3.020(3)(A) in the delivery of
				psychological health services and who provides psychological health services as
				defined in section (9).
(11)
				American Psychological Association designated health service provider delivery
				areas. The foregoing term as used in sections 337.025.5,
				337.033.3,
				and 337.033.4, RSMo, shall include doctoral degree, or respecialization
				programs, with a primary emphasis, or concentration, in one of the following
				areas:
(A) Clinical psychology;
(B) Counseling psychology;
(C) School psychology; or
(D) Combined scientist-professional
				psychology doctoral training programs.
(E) The term shall also include such other
				programs, including doctoral and respecialization programs in emerging
				substantive areas of the professional health service practice of psychology,
				for which the American Psychological Association provides accreditation in the
				future.