Texas Administrative Code › Title 22 - EXAMINING BOARDS › Part 21 - TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF PSYCHOLOGIST › Chapter 463 - APPLICATIONS AND EXAMINATIONS › Subchapter B - LICENSING REQUIREMENTS › Section 463.15 - Criteria for Degrees Conferred Prior to 1979

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) For applicants for licensure as a
				  psychologist with a doctoral degree conferred prior to January 1, 1979, the
				  transcript must reflect a doctoral degree that designates a major in psychology
				  or the substantial equivalent of a doctoral degree in psychology in both
				  subject matter and extent of training. A doctoral degree will be considered the
				  substantial equivalent to a doctoral degree in psychology if the training
				  program meets the following criteria:
(1)
				  Post-baccalaureate program in a regionally accredited institution of higher
				  learning. The program must have a minimum of 90 semester hours, not more than
				  12 of which are credit for doctoral dissertation and not more than six of which
				  are credit for master's thesis.
(2)
				  The program, wherever it may be administratively housed, must be clearly
				  identified and labeled. Such a program must specify in pertinent institutional
				  catalogs and brochures its intent to educate and train professional
				  psychologists.
(3) The program must
				  stand as a recognizable, coherent organizational entity within the institution.
				  A program may be within a larger administrative unit, e.g., department, area,
				  or school.
(4) There must be a
				  clear authority and primary responsibility for the core and specialty areas
				  whether or not the program cuts across administrative lines. The program must
				  have identifiable faculty and administrative heads who are psychologists
				  responsible for the graduate program. Psychology faculty are individuals who
				  are licensed or certified psychologists, or specialists of the American Board
				  of Professional Psychology (ABPP), or hold a doctoral degree in psychology from
				  a regionally accredited institution.
(5) The program must be an integrated,
				  organized sequence of studies, e.g., there must be identifiable curriculum
				  tracks wherein course sequences are outlined for students.
(6) The program must have an identifiable
				  body of students who matriculated in the program.
(7) The program must include supervised
				  practicum, internship, field or laboratory training appropriate to the practice
				  of psychology. The supervised field work or internship must have been a minimum
				  of 1,500 supervised hours, obtained in not less than a 12 month period nor more
				  than a 24 month period. Further, this requirement cannot have been obtained in
				  more than two placements or agencies.
(8) The curriculum shall encompass a minimum
				  of two academic years of full-time graduate studies for those persons have
				  enrolled in the doctoral degree program after completing the requirements for a
				  master's degree. The curriculum shall encompass a minimum of four academic
				  years of full-time graduate studies for those persons who have entered a
				  doctoral program following the completion of a baccalaureate degree and prior
				  to the awarding of a master's degree. It is recognized that educational
				  institutions vary in their definitions of full-time graduate studies. It is
				  also recognized that institutions vary in their definitions of residency
				  requirements for the doctoral degree.
(9) The following curricular requirements
				  must be met and demonstrated through appropriate course work:
(A) Scientific and professional ethics
				  related to the field of psychology.
(B) Research design and methodology,
				  statistics.
(C) The applicant must
				  demonstrate competence in each of the following substantive areas. The
				  competence standard will be met by satisfactory completion at the B level of a
				  minimum of six graduate semester hours in each of the four content areas. It is
				  recognized that some doctoral programs have developed special competency
				  examinations in lieu of requiring students to complete course work in all core
				  areas. Graduates of such programs who have not completed the necessary semester
				  hours in these core areas must submit to the Council evidence of competency in
				  each of the four core areas.
(i) Biological
				  basis of behavior: physiological psychology, comparative psychology,
				  neuropsychology, sensation and perception, psycho-pharmacology.
(ii) Cognitive-affective basis of behavior:
				  learning, thinking, motivation, emotion.
(iii) Social basis of behavior: social
				  psychology, group processes, organizational and system theory.
(iv) Individual differences: personality
				  theory, human development, abnormal psychology.
(10) All educational programs which train
				  persons who wish to be identified as psychologists will include course
				  requirements in specialty areas. The applicant must demonstrate a minimum of 24
				  hours in his/her designated specialty area.