Virginia Administrative Code › Title 18 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING › Agency 125 - BOARD OF PSYCHOLOGY › Chapter 20 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRACTICE OF PSYCHOLOGY › Part I - General Provisions › Section 18VAC125-20-10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, in addition to the words and
					 terms defined in §§ 54.1-3600 and 54.1-3606.2 of the Code of
					 Virginia, when used in this chapter shall have the following meanings, unless
					 the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"APA" means the American Psychological Association.
"APPIC" means the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral
					 and Internship Centers.
"ASPPB" means the Association of State and Provincial
					 Psychology Boards.
"Board" means the Virginia Board of Psychology.
"CAEP" means Council for the Accreditation of Educator
					 Preparation.
"Compact" means the Psychology Interjurisdictional
					 Compact.
"Conversion therapy" means any practice or treatment as
					 defined in § 54.1-2409.5 A of the Code of Virginia.
"CPA" means Canadian Psychological Association.
"Demonstrable areas of competence" means those therapeutic
					 and assessment methods and techniques for the populations served and for which
					 one can document adequate graduate training, workshops, or appropriate
					 supervised experience.
"E. Passport" means a certificate issued by ASPPB that
					 authorizes telepsychology services in a compact state.
"Face-to-face" means in person.
"Intern" means an individual who is enrolled in a
					 professional psychology program internship.
"Internship" means an ongoing, supervised, and organized
					 practical experience obtained in an integrated training program identified as a
					 psychology internship. Other supervised experience or on-the-job training does
					 not constitute an internship.
"IPC" means an interjurisdictional practice certificate
					 issued by ASPPB that grants temporary authority to practice in a compact
					 state.
"NASP" means the National Association of School
					 Psychologists.
"Practicum" means the pre-internship clinical experience
					 that is part of a graduate educational program.
"Practicum student" means an individual who is enrolled in
					 a professional psychology program and is receiving pre-internship training and
					 seeing clients.
"Professional psychology program" means an integrated
					 program of doctoral study in clinical or counseling psychology or a master's
					 degree or higher program in school psychology designed to train professional
					 psychologists to deliver services in psychology.
"Regional accrediting agency" means one of the six regional
					 accrediting agencies recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education established
					 to accredit senior institutions of higher education.
"Residency" means a post-internship, post-terminal degree,
					 supervised experience approved by the board.
"Resident" means an individual who has received a doctoral
					 degree in a clinical or counseling psychology program or a master's degree or
					 higher in school psychology and is completing a board-approved
					 residency.
"School psychologist-limited" means a person licensed
					 pursuant to § 54.1-3606 of the Code of Virginia to provide school
					 psychology services solely in public school divisions.
"Supervision" means the ongoing process performed by a
					 supervisor who monitors the performance of the person supervised and provides
					 regular, documented individual consultation, guidance, and instruction with
					 respect to the skills and competencies of the person supervised.
"Supervisor" means an individual who assumes responsibility
					 for the education and training activities of a person under supervision and for
					 the care of such person's clients and who provides supervision consistent with
					 the training and experience of both the supervisor and the person under
					 supervision and with the type of services being provided.
Statutory Authority: §§ 54.1-2400 and 54.1-3605
						of the Code of Virginia.