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For purposes of this Article, the following words and phrases have been defined to mean:

(a) Clinical Psychologist means a person who has received training in clinical psychology from an accredited school in the U.S. and has completed the internship requirements.

(1) Training means a doctoral level training in clinical psychology at an accredited institution of higher learning in the U.S. and requiring the applicant to provide evidence of having satisfactorily completed not less than one hundred twenty (120) credit hours of education in the following areas:

(A) biological basis of behavior, physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation, perception and psychopharmacology;

(B) cognitive-affective basis of behavior, learning, thinking, motivation and emotion;

(C) social basis of behavior, social psychology, group process, organizational and systems theories;

(D) individual differences, personality theory, human development and abnormal psychology; and

(E) research design and methodology, statistics and psychometrics.

(2) Accredited means that the college or the university has met the standards as established by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges, the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, or by other accrediting agencies.

(3) Internship means a training program that is supervised by a doctoral level, licensed clinical

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psychologist, or approved by the American Psychological Association and can be demonstrated to be of high quality.

(b) Clinical Psychology means a subspecialty in psychology which is primarily concerned with assessing and alleviating emotional, mental and behavioral disorders in a hospital, institution or other clinical setting.

(c) Fee means any charge, monetary or otherwise, whether paid directly, or on a prepaid capitation basis, by a third party, or a charge assessed by a facility for services rendered.

(d) Foreign School means any college or division of a university in a country other than the United States that offers the degree of doctor in clinical psychology.

(e) License means that the person named on the certificate has been found qualified to engage in the practice of clinical psychology, and has been awarded a license by the Board to practice clinical psychology.

(f) Practice of Clinical Psychology means:

(1) a person who represents himself to be a clinical psychologist when he holds himself out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words “”clinical psychology,”” “”clinical psychologist,”” or “”psychologist,”” or offers to render or renders services as defined below to individuals, groups, organizations or the public;

(2) the rendering to individuals, groups, organizations or the public any psychological service involving the application of principles, methods and procedures of understanding, predicting and influencing behavior, such as the principles pertaining to learning, perception, motivation, thinking, emotions and inter- personal relationships; the methods and procedures of interviewing, counseling and psychotherapy; constructing, administering and interpreting tests of mental abilities, aptitudes, interests, attitudes,

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personality characteristics, emotion and motivation, and of assessing public opinion;

(3) the application of said principles and methods, including, but not limited to, diagnosis, prevention and amelioration of adjustment problems, and emotional and mental disorders of individuals and groups, hypnosis, educational and vocational counseling, personnel selection and management, the evaluation and planning for effective work and learning situations, advertising and market research and the resolution of interpersonal and social conflicts; or

(4) psychotherapy by the use of learning, conditioning methods and emotional reactions, in a professional relationship, to assist a person or persons to modify feelings, attitudes and behavior which are intellectually, socially or emotionally mal-adjustive or ineffectual.

SOURCE: Subsections (a)(1) and (f)(1) amended by P.L. 36-
138:31-32 (Dec. 28, 2022).