Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 2235 - State Committee of Psychologists › Chapter 2 - General Rules › Section 20 CSR 2235-2.050 - Supervised Professional Experience, Section 337.025, RSMo, for the Delivery of Nonhealth Psychological Services

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule defines the supervised
				  professional experience requirements for non-health service providers under
				  section
				  337.025,
				  RSMo.
(1) Postdoctoral
				experience for those applicants who have not completed a program in one or more
				of the American Psychological Association designated health service provider
				delivery areas, as defined in
				20 CSR
				2235-1.015(10), and/or for those who
				do not intend to engage in the delivery of psychological health services shall
				be governed by the following:
(A) Completion
				of Educational Requirements. All supervised professional experience must be
				acquired subsequent to the completion of all educational requirements as
				defined in section
				337.027,
				RSMo. For the purposes of this rule, an applicant shall be deemed to have met
				the educational requirements when all degree and core course requirements, as
				defined in
				20 CSR
				2235-2.005, have been completed. Degree requirements
				have been met when indicated by conferral of the formal degree or at the time
				when all degree requirements established by the recognized educational
				institution for the degree have been met with the sole exception that the
				degree has not been formally conferred and the institution so certifies in
				writing to the committee;
(B)
				Amount of Time. Postdoctoral supervised professional experience shall consist
				of a minimum of fifteen hundred (1500) hours of professional experience in the
				delivery of psychological services obtained in no fewer than twelve (12) or
				more than twenty-four (24) calendar months. This experience must be accumulated
				at a rate of no fewer than twenty (20) hours per week nor more than fifty (50)
				hours per week;
(C) Organized
				Training Program. Postdoctoral supervised professional experience must be
				obtained in an organized psychological training program for the delivery of
				psychological services. The organized psychological training program shall
				include all of the following:
1. Provides
				direct training and experience in the delivery of psychological services
				appropriate to and consistent with the supervisee's education, training,
				experience and intended practice;
2. Provides exposure to and interaction with
				a variety of professionals and disciplines relevant to the delivery of
				psychological services;
3. Does not
				include a private practice setting in which the applicant operates, manages,
				has an ownership interest or administrative responsibility in the private
				practice; and
4. Provides a minimum
				of five (5) hours per week of professional learning activities. These
				professional learning experiences must be clearly established and agreed upon
				by the supervisee and supervisor at the initiation of post-degree supervision
				and may include any of the following:
A.
				Project meetings and consultations with other professionals relevant to the
				supervisee's intended area of psychological practice;
B. Readings from journals and books relevant
				to the supervisee's intended area of psychological practice;
C. Attendance or presentation of workshops,
				seminars, in-services or lectures on topics relevant to the supervisee's
				intended area of practice;
D.
				Coordinating and presenting research relevant to the supervisee's intended area
				of practice; or
E. Teaching of a
				graduate or undergraduate course in psychology at a recognized educational
				institution accredited by one (1) of the regional accrediting associations
				approved by the Council on Postsecondary Accreditation;
(D) Supervision. The psychological
				activities of the applicant shall be performed pursuant to the primary
				supervisor's order, control, and full professional responsibility. The primary
				supervisor shall maintain a continuing relationship with the applicant and
				shall meet with the applicant a minimum of one (1) hour per month in
				face-to-face individual supervision. A portion of the supervision may be
				delegated by the primary supervisor to one (1) or more secondary supervisor(s)
				who shall then retain order, control and full professional responsibility for
				that portion of the applicant's work being performed under their supervision
				which supervisor shall then meet with the applicant a minimum of one (1) hour
				per week in face-to-face individual supervision. If there is only one (1)
				supervisor the meetings shall be a minimum of one (1) hour per week. Group
				supervision is not acceptable for supervised experience under this
				regulation;
(E) Supervisor
				Requirements.
1. The primary and all
				secondary supervisors, if any, must be licensed psychologist(s) or such other
				qualified professional(s), if preapproved, by the committee.
2. No supervisor, whether primary or
				secondary, may be a relative of the applicant, such as a spouse, parent, child,
				sibling of the whole- or half-blood, grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle,
				stepparent, stepchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law or
				sister-in-law.
3. No supervisor,
				whether primary or secondary, may be under discipline by any licensing board or
				jurisdiction at any time during the period of supervised professional
				experience.
4. No supervisor,
				whether primary or secondary, shall have more than four (4) persons obtaining
				post-degree supervised professional experience for licensure under supervision
				at any one (1) time. Any supervisor wishing to petition the committee for
				additional supervisees may do so through a written request.
5. All supervisors, whether primary and/or
				secondary, must certify to the committee at the completion of the applicant's
				postdoctoral supervised professional experience that the supervisee has
				complied with the requirements for supervised professional experience through
				the use of the attestation forms provided by the committee;
(F) Supervisor/Supervisee
				Relationship.
1. All professional activities
				and psychological services provided by the supervisee must be performed
				pursuant to the supervisor's(s') order, control, and full professional
				responsibility. The supervisor, whether primary and/or secondary, must be
				vested with administrative authority over matters affecting the delivery of the
				psychological services being accorded under the supervision of a particular
				supervisor, whether primary and/or secondary, so that the ultimate
				responsibility for the welfare of the public and/or any client is maintained by
				the supervising psychologists.
2.
				The supervisor(s) shall maintain a continuing relationship with the supervisee.
				The supervisor(s) and supervisee should have frequent professional
				interactions. Group supervision is not acceptable for supervised professional
				experience under this rule. The supervisee must complete at least forty-eight
				(48) hours of weekly supervision sessions.
3. Unless otherwise approved by the committee
				for good cause, all work products prepared by the supervisee must be reviewed,
				approved and cosigned by the appropriate supervisor;
(G) Variances. Supervisees seeking a variance
				in the acceptance of the supervision requirements shall make application to the
				committee which may be handled on a case-by-case basis;
(H) Prior Review. The committee, upon
				request, will review a supervisee's plan of post-degree supervised professional
				experience to determine if that supervision is acceptable under this rule. All
				requests shall be submitted on the forms provided by the committee and
				accompanied by the prior review fee for post-degree supervision. A prior review
				of educational credentials must be conducted prior to or simultaneously with a
				request of proposed plan of post-degree supervised professional experience. All
				requests must be submitted to the committee thirty (30) days prior to a
				regularly scheduled committee meeting; and
(I) Representation.
1. Throughout the period of postdoctoral
				supervised professional experience, the supervisee must represent him/herself
				to consumers of psychological services consistent with
				20 CSR
				2235-1.015.
2. Any individual, whether such individual be
				provisionally licensed or be unlicensed, who is working under the supervision
				of a licensed psychologist shall not be listed in telephone listings as
				providing psychological services.
3. Any individual, whether such individual be
				provisionally licensed or unlicensed, who is working under the supervision of a
				licensed psychologist shall list the primary supervising psychologist's name
				and license number on all professional correspondence (for example, testing
				reports and progress reports) and advertisements or notices (for example,
				brochures) of his/her professional services.