North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 66 - Psychologist Examiners, Board of › Article 66-02 - Psychologist Licensure › Chapter 66-02-01 - Licensure and Examining Applications › Section 66-02-01-11.1 - Supervised professional experience

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. Applicants for licensure as a psychologist
				must complete one thousand five hundred hours of supervised predoctoral
				internship in the practice of psychology. At least one hundred hours of
				supervision is required, at least fifty of which must be one to one. Successful
				completion of an American psychological association or Canadian psychological
				association accredited internship will be accepted as fulfilling this
				requirement. Any other supervised predoctoral internship experience must be
				described in detail by the applicant, including nature of service setting or
				settings, nature of consumers served, nature and amount of supervision, and
				specific skills in which the applicant demonstrated proficiency on forms
				provided by the board. The supervisor or supervisors must corroborate the areas
				of competence claimed by the applicant. In addition, an applicant for licensure
				as a psychologist must complete one or a combination of the following:
a. One thousand five hundred hours of
				supervised postdoctoral experience in the practice of psychology. At least one
				hundred hours of supervision is required, at least fifty of which must be one
				to one with a psychologist licensed in good standing. Successful completion of
				an American psychological association or Canadian psychological association
				accredited postdoctoral program will be accepted as fulfilling this
				requirement. Any other supervised postdoctoral experience must be described in
				detail by the applicant, including nature of service setting or settings,
				nature of consumers served, nature and amount of supervision, and specific
				skills in which the applicant demonstrated proficiency on forms provided by the
				board. The supervisor or supervisors must corroborate the areas of competence
				claimed by the applicant.
b. One
				thousand five hundred hours of additional supervised predoctoral training
				experience in the practice of psychology. At least one hundred hours of
				supervision is required, at least fifty of which must be one to one with a
				psychologist licensed in good standing. In addition, this training experience
				must meet all of the following requirements:
(1) Be part of a doctoral program that meets
				requirements of subdivision b of subsection 1 of North Dakota Century Code
				section 43-32-20.
(2) Be completed
				within six years of the award of the terminal doctoral degree.
(3) Be completed within ten years of first
				application for licensure.
(4) Be
				completed following any introductory practicum experience in applied
				professional psychology or psychotherapy of a minimum duration of six hundred
				hours.
(5) Be part of an
				individualized written plan for an organized, sequential series of supervised
				experiences of increasing complexity.
(6) Occur outside of the classroom setting
				and involve the trainee's direct delivery of supervised psychological services
				in a practice, agency, institution, counseling center, graduate training
				clinic, or other setting approved by the director of training or
				designee.
(7) Consist of activities
				defined as the practice of psychology by subsection 6 of North Dakota Century
				Code section 43-32-01.
(8) Occur in
				placements that are made or approved in advance by the doctoral program
				director of training or designee.
(9) Occur in placements in which a licensed
				psychologist is directly responsible for the integrity and quality of the
				training experience and specifies training objectives in terms of the
				competencies expected of the trainee.
(10) Have an identifiable licensed
				psychologist who serves as the primary supervisor of the trainee, is clearly
				available to and professionally responsible for the trainee's clients or
				patients, has been licensed for at least three years, and is licensed in the
				jurisdiction in which the training occurs.
(11) Be part of a sequential training plan
				that consists of no less than thirty weeks with a weekly onsite presence of no
				less than fifteen hours.
(12)
				Provide, on average, weekly individual face-to-face supervision, which may
				include remote face-to-face audio and video interactions, devoted to the
				trainee's cases at a ratio of no less than one hour per fifteen hours onsite
				and no less than one hour per week. No less than fifty percent of the
				supervision required in this paragraph shall be provided by the primary
				supervisor. The remaining face-to-face supervision required in this paragraph
				may be individual or group supervision provided by a licensed psychologist who
				has been licensed for at least three years. Supplemental individual or group
				supervision in excess of the minimum ratio required is encouraged, and may be
				provided by a psychologist, school psychologist, other licensed mental health
				professional, or a psychology trainee under an umbrella supervision
				arrangement, but it may not replace the weekly individual face-to-face
				supervision requirements.
(13) May
				include the use of secure remote technologies, such as telephone, internet, or
				online communications as a supplemental training and consultation aid and for
				supervision in excess of the minimum ratio required, although it may not
				replace the minimum weekly face-to-face individual supervision
				requirement.
(14) Must include on
				average at least one additional hour per week in learning activities, such as
				additional face-to-face individual supervision, group supervision, case
				conference or grand rounds, didactic consultations with psychologists or other
				appropriate licensed mental health professionals, guided professional readings,
				seminars, or cotherapy with a licensed psychologist or other appropriate
				professional.
(15) Must include
				regularly scheduled and documented interaction concerning the trainee's
				progress between the primary supervisor and the director of training at the
				graduate program or designee, and copies of such documentation will be provided
				to the board for review upon request.