20 CSR 2235-1.015
Definitions
PURPOSE: This rule establishes various definitions and terms used
in these rules.
(1) Post-degree supervised professional experience. The purpose
and intention of post-degree supervised experience is to
provide experiential training in the practice of psychology in
order to meet the requirements for licensure. It is not designed
to enable a person to engage in the practice of psychology
without a license. Post-degree supervised professional
experience is more than a consultation or supervisory session.
(2) Psychological trainee. A person enrolled in a graduate
program in psychology and performing functions as a part of
his/her graduate training or practicum.
(3) Psychological intern. A person possessing a master’s degree
in psychology as defined in section 337.021 or 337.025, RSMo and
enrolled in a doctoral program in psychology and serving as an
intern as part of the requirements for his/her degree program,
or a person enrolled in a doctoral program in psychology and
serving as an intern as part of the requirements for his/her
degree program.
(4) Psychological resident. A person possessing a doctoral
degree in psychology as defined in section 337.025, RSMo who
is engaged in post-degree supervised professional experience
in order to obtain licensure as a psychologist.
(5) Psychological assistant. A person who has received formal
approval by the committee as having met the educational
and post-degree professional experience requirements but has
not yet met the examination requirements for licensure as a
psychologist.
(6) Qualified assistant. Any person employed by or otherwise
directly accountable to a licensed psychologist and who assists
the licensed psychologist in the delivery of psychological
services but whose employment is not in the course of
pursuing the educational, professional supervised experience
or examination requirements for licensure as a psychologist.
(7) Provisionally licensed psychologist. A psychological resident
or psychological assistant who has met the requirements
for and has been issued a provisional license under section
337.020.4, RSMo.
(8) Applicant. Any person who submits an application for
licensure and pays the appropriate application fee to be
licensed as a psychologist.
(9) Psychological health services. The assessment, diagnosis, and
treatment of an individual(s) for the purposes of remediation of
a cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or mental disorder.
(10) Psychological health service provider. A licensed psychologist
who possesses health service provider certification through
relevant education, training, and experience as defined in 20
CSR 2235-3.020(3)(A) in the delivery of psychological health
services and who provides psychological health services as
defined in section (9).
(11) American Psychological Association designated health
service provider delivery areas. The foregoing term as used in
sections 337.025.5, 337.033.3, and 337.033.4, RSMo, shall include
doctoral degree, or respecialization programs, with a primary
emphasis, or concentration, in one of the following areas:
(A) Clinical psychology;
(B) Counseling psychology;
(C) School psychology; or
(D) Combined scientist-professional psychology doctoral
training programs.
(E) The term shall also include such other programs,
including doctoral and respecialization programs in emerging
substantive areas of the professional health service practice of
psychology, for which the American Psychological Association
provides accreditation in the future.
(12) Psychological Testing. The use of one (1) or more standardized
measurements, devices, or procedures, including the use of
computerized psychological tests, to observe or record human
behavior, and which require the application of appropriate
normative data for interpretation or classification and includes
the use of standardized instruments for the purpose of the
diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders
and disabilities, the evaluation or assessment of cognitive and
intellectual abilities, personality, and emotional states and
traits, and neuropsychological functioning by an individual
who has received formal academic training at the graduate
level in statistics, test construction, sampling theory, tests
and measurements, individual differences, and personality
theory. In addition, the interpretation of psychological tests
for diagnostic purposes requires formal academic training
AND INSURANCE
in the areas of abnormal psychology, psychopathology,
psychodiagnosis, and, in the case of neuropsychological
diagnosis,
training
in
neuropsychology.
Competent
administration and interpretation of psychological tests also
requires a formal supervised practice experience. Services which
are described as “psychological testing” shall be administered
and interpreted by licensed psychologists or persons who
are otherwise exempt by statute. Individuals licensed by this
committee, as well as other licensed professionals, may also
use tests of language, education, and achievement, as well as
tests of abilities, interests, and aptitudes. With the exception of
the test categories and psychological tests listed in section (13)
of this rule, the use of these other tests is not exclusively within
the scope of this regulation.
(13) Psychological Test and Inventories.
(A) Individual tests for the evaluation of cognitive and
intellectual abilities, examples of which are:
1. The Wechsler series;
2. The Stanford-Binet; and
3. The Kaufman series.
(B) Individual, objective, and projective tests and inventories
of personality and emotional states and traits, examples of
which are:
1. Objective tests and inventories:
A. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventories;
and
B. The Millon Inventories;
2. Projective tests and techniques including:
A. Rorschach; and
B. Holtzman;
3. Apperception techniques, examples of which are:
A. TAT (Thematic Apperception Test);
B. CAT (Children’s Apperception Test);
C. PFT (Pain Frustration Test); and
D. Tactual Apperception Test (Twitchell-Allen); and
4. Drawing techniques, examples of which are:
A. DAP (Draw A Person);
B. HTP (House Tree Person); and
C. Action Family Drawing.
(C) Individual tests of neuropsychological functioning,
examples of which are:
1. The Halstead-Reitan Battery;
2. The Luria-Nebraska Battery; and
3. The NEPSY.
AUTHORITY: section 337.030.3, RSMo Supp. 2008 and section
337.050.9, RSMo 2000.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 2351.015. Original rule filed July 30, 1991, effective Feb. 6, 1992.
Amended: Filed Feb. 4, 1992, effective Dec. 3, 1992. Amended: Filed
Nov. 13, 1992, effective July 8, 1993. Amended: Filed July 26, 1999,
effective Feb. 29, 2000. Moved to 20 CSR 2235-1.015, effective Aug.
28, 2006. Amended: Filed Dec. 15, 2006, effective June 30, 2007.
Amended: Filed Aug. 30, 2007, effective Feb. 29, 2008. Amended:
Filed April 8, 2009, effective Sept. 30, 2009.
*Original authority: 337.030, RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989, 1996, 2003 and 337.050,
RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999.