South Carolina Code of Regulations › Chapter 36 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING AND REGULATION BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR LICENSURE OF PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS, ADDICTION COUNSELORS, AND PSYCHO-EDUCATIONAL SPECIALISTS › Article 3 - LICENSING PROVISIONS › Section 36-13 - Licensing Provisions for Psycho-educational Specialists

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 6, June 28, 2024
An applicant for initial licensure as a psycho-educational
				specialist must:
(1) submit an
			 application on forms approved by the Board, along with the required fee;
			 and
(2) submit evidence of
			 successful completion of an earned master's degree plus thirty (30) graduate
			 semester hours, or an earned sixty (60) graduate semester hour master's degree,
			 or a sixty (60) graduate semester hour specialist's degree, or a doctoral
			 degree in school psychology from an institution of higher education whose
			 program is approved by the National Association of School Psychologists or the
			 American Psychological Association or a program which the Board finds to be
			 substantially equivalent. A substantially equivalent program must include an
			 earned master's, specialist's, or doctoral degree in an applied area of
			 psychology, education, or behavioral sciences from a regionally accredited
			 institution, completion of at least sixty (60) graduate semester hours, and
			 substantial preparation, including coursework, in the following areas:
(a) psychological foundations, including
			 biological bases of behavior; human learning; child and adolescent development;
			 social/cultural bases of behavior; and individual differences
			 (exceptionalities/psychopathology of children and youth); and
(b) educational foundations, including
			 organization and operation of schools; and instructional/remedial design;
			 and
(c) assessment and
			 intervention, including diverse methods of individual assessment that can be
			 linked to intervention; direct intervention including counseling and behavior
			 analysis/intervention; and indirect intervention including a consultation with
			 school personnel and families; and
(d) statistics and research methodologies;
			 and
(e) professional school
			 psychology, including history and foundations of school psychology; legal and
			 ethical issues; professional issues and standards; alternative models of
			 service delivery; emergent technologies; and roles and functions of school
			 psychologists; and
(f) a one-year
			 twelve hundred (1200) hour internship, at least one-half (1/2) of which must be
			 in an approved school setting. The internship shall include a full range of
			 psycho-educational services supervised by a licensed psycho-educational
			 specialist or certified or licensed school psychologist. If a portion of the
			 internship is completed in a non-school setting, supervision may be provided by
			 a psychologist appropriately credentialed for that setting as approved by the
			 Board. The possession of a National Certified School Psychologist (NCSP)
			 credential issued after January 1, 1988 shall be evidence of completion of a
			 satisfactory program as provided above; and
(g) has completed, within three (3) years
			 after the effective date of these regulations, a minimum of three (3) graduate
			 semester hours in Psychopathology in academic training from a college or
			 university approved by the Board. This course must provide the practitioner
			 with an understanding of psychopathology, abnormal psychology, abnormal
			 behavior, etiology dynamics, and treatment of abnormal behavior; and
(h) has completed, within three (3) years
			 after the effective date of these regulations, a minimum of three (3) graduate
			 semester hours in Diagnostics in academic training from a college or university
			 approved by the Board. This course must provide the practitioner with an
			 understanding of the diagnostics of psychopathology; and