Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4732 - State Board of Psychology › Chapter 4732-5 - Psychological Procedures Which Create a Serious Hazard to Mental Health and Require Professional Expertise in Psychology › Section 4732-5-02 - Exemptions from licensure requirements

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
Exemptions from licensure requirements
				are generally set forth in division (A) of section
				4732.22 of the Revised Code. In
				addition, exemptions from licensure requirements shall include:
(A)
								A person who
			 holds a license issued by the state board of education authorizing the practice
			 of school psychology, while practicing school psychology within the scope of
			 employment by a board of education or by a private school meeting the standards
			 prescribed by the state board of education under division (D) of section
			 3301.07 of the Revised Code, or
			 while acting as a school psychologist within the scope of employment in a
			 program for children with disabilities established under Chapter 3323. or 5126.
			 of the Revised Code. A person exempted under this division shall not offer
			 psychological services to any other individual, organization, or group unless
			 the person is licensed by the state board of psychology;
(B)
								 A nonresident
			 temporarily employed in this state to render psychological services for not
			 more than thirty days a year who successfully submits a board-prescribed
			 application prior to practicing in Ohio and who, in the opinion of the board,
			 meets the standards for admission to the psychology examination as described in
			 rule
			 4732-9-01
			 of the Administrative Code and who holds whatever license or certificate, if
			 any, is required for such practice in his/her home state or home country;
			 however, a nonresident providing the board with evidence from the "Association
			 of State and Provincial Psychology Boards" that he/she holds an active
			 inter-jurisdictional practice certificate (IPC) shall be deemed to qualify for
			 permission to practice under this paragraph; nonresidents shall have
			 authorization to practice for not more than thirty days yearly upon written
			 authorization granting the nonresident permission to practice;
(C)
								 Any student or
			 other person working under the supervision of a psychologist or school
			 psychologist licensed under this chapter, while engaging in training
			 experiences or carrying out specific tasks, under the license holder's
			 supervision, as an extension of the license holder's legal and ethical
			 authority as specified under this chapter. The person working under the license
			 holder's supervision shall not represent oneself to the public as a
			 psychologist or school psychologist, and supervised persons shall be ascribed
			 an appropriate title by the supervisor from those listed in paragraphs (E),
			 (F), (G), (H), (I) and (J) of rule
			 4732-13-03
			 of the Administrative Code;
(D)
								 A student in an
			 accredited educational institution, while carrying out activities that are part
			 of the prescribed course of study, provided such activities are supervised by a
			 professional person who is qualified to perform such activities and is licensed
			 under this chapter or is a qualified supervisor pursuant to rules of the
			 board;
(E)
								Recognized religious officials, including ministers,
			 priests, rabbis, imams, Christian science practitioners, and other persons
			 recognized by the board, conducting counseling when the counseling activities
			 are within the scope of the performance of their regular duties and are
			 performed under the auspices or sponsorship of an established and legally
			 cognizable religious denomination or sect, as defined in current federal tax
			 regulations, and when the religious official does not refer to the official's
			 self as a psychologist and remains accountable to the established authority of
			 the religious denomination or sect;
(F)
								 A person in the
			 employ of the federal government, including use of an official title, insofar
			 as such activities are a part of the duties in his/her
			 position;
(G)
								A person licensed, certified, or registered under a
			 provision of the Revised Code other than in Chapter 4732. of the Revised Code,
			 providing he/she is practicing those arts and utilizing psychological
			 procedures that are allowed and within the standards and ethics of the other
			 profession or within new areas of practice that represent appropriate
			 extensions of that profession and providing he/she does not hold
			 himself/herself out to the public by the title "psychologist";
(H)
								 Persons using
			 the term "social psychologist," "experimental psychologist," "developmental
			 psychologist," "research psychologist," "cognitive psychologist," and other
			 terms used by those in academic and research settings who possess a doctoral
			 degree in psychology from an educational institution accredited or recognized
			 by national or regional accrediting agencies as maintaining satisfactory
			 standards and who do not use such a term in the solicitation or rendering of
			 professional psychological services;
(I)
								 A person who is
			 teaching, even when dealing with psychological subject matter, provided it does
			 not otherwise involve the professional practice of psychology in which student
			 or client welfare is directly affected;
(J)
								 A person who is
			 conducting research in the field of psychology, provided it does not otherwise
			 involve the professional practice of psychology in which student or client
			 welfare is directly affected.
Replaces: 4732-5-02
Effective: 9/7/2015
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
				09/18/2019
Promulgated
				Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4732.06
Rule
				Amplifies: 4732.01, 4732.06, 4732.10, 4732.15, 4732.22
Prior
				Effective Dates: 12/30/77, 10/1/90, 7/15/00, 11/29/04,
				1/8/10