Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND LICENSING › Chapter 246-924 - Psychologists › Section 246-924-056 - Internship

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Applicants must successfully complete an organized internship
				  as part of the doctoral degree program described in WAC
				  246-924-046.
(1) The internship must include at least 1500
				hours of supervised experience and be completed within twenty-four
				months.
(2) The internship program
				must:
(a) Be accredited by the American
				Psychological Association; or
(b)
				Be a member program of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and
				Internship Centers; or
(c) Meet the
				following requirements:
(i) Organization of
				the internship program.
(A) The internship
				must have a written statement or brochure describing the goals and content of
				the internship, stating clear expectations and quality of student work, and
				made available to prospective interns.
(B) A psychologist licensed by the
				appropriate state or provincial licensing authority must be clearly designated
				as responsible for the integrity and quality of the internship
				program.
(C) Interns must use
				titles indicating their training status.
(ii) Content of the internship program.
(A) The internship must be designed to
				provide a planned sequence of training experiences focusing on breadth and
				quality of training. Supervision and training related to ethics must be
				ongoing.
(B) At least twenty-five
				percent of the internship experience must be in direct client contact providing
				assessment and intervention services.
(C) For every 40 hours of internship
				experience, the student must receive:
(I) At
				least 2 hours of regularly scheduled, formal, face-to-face individual
				supervision that addresses the direct psychological services provided by the
				intern; and
(II) At least 2 hours
				of other learning activities such as case conferences, seminars on applied
				issues, conducting cotherapy with a staff person including discussion of the
				case, and group supervision.
(iii) Supervision of the internship
				experience.
(A) The internship setting must
				have two or more psychologists available as supervisors, at least one of whom
				is licensed as a psychologist.
(B)
				The internship experience must be supervised by the person(s) responsible for
				the assigned casework.
(I) At least
				seventy-five percent of the supervision must be by a licensed psychologist with
				two years post-license experience.
(II) Up to twenty-five percent of the
				supervision may be completed by the following:
A psychiatrist(s) with three years experience beyond
				  residency;
A licensed mental health counselor(s) with five years
				  post-license experience;
A licensed marriage and family therapist(s) with at least
				  five years post-license experience;
A licensed advanced social worker(s) or licensed independent
				  clinical social worker(s) with five years post-license experience; or
A doctoral level psychologist(s) with three years
				  post-doctoral experience who is exempt from licensure under
				  RCW
				  18.83.200(1), (2), (3) or
				  (4), if the supervision occurs in the exempt
				  setting.