Educational Requirements, Section 337.025, RSMo

PURPOSE: This rule interprets and clarifies section 337.025, RSMo. (1) A person applying for licensure as a psychologist pursuant to section 337.025, RSMo, and who does not engage in the delivery of psychological health services as defined in 20 CSR 2235-1.015, shall be governed by the following: possession of a doctoral degree in psychology as defined in section 337.025.3, RSMo. (2) A person applying for licensure as a psychologist pursuant to section 337.025, RSMo, and who will engage in the delivery of psychological health services as defined in 20 CSR 2235-1.015, shall be governed by the following: (A) Possession of a doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology as defined in sections 337.025.3 and 337.033.3, RSMo; or (B) Possession of a doctoral degree in clinical or counseling psychology from a respecialization program as defined in section 337.033.3 and 4, RSMo. (3) The following criteria shall be used by the committee in evaluating the acceptability of course work obtained in the graduate program of the applicant seeking licensure pursuant to section 337.025.3(3) or 337.033.4(3), RSMo: (A) Each course must be an in-depth study solely devoted to a particular core area. No core area credit will be given for a course which contains only components or some aspects of a core area; (B) A course will be counted only once in granting credit for a core area; (C) No core course credit will be given for practice, workshops, continuing education, applied courses, experiential courses, readings courses, independent studies, or correspondence courses; (D) Credit will be given for seminar courses only if the applicant provides substantiation through satisfactory evidence that the course was an in-depth study solely devoted to a particular core area. This substantiation may be shown through one (1) or more of the following: 1. Course descriptions in official school catalogs; 2. Course syllabi; or 3. A signed written statement from a graduate dean, department chair or professor who taught the class that the course was an in-depth study solely devoted to a particular core area and that the course included lectures and discussions concerning a wide range of the key topics in that core area; (E) Titles of course work on official transcripts which are not clear to the committee must be substantiated with satisfactory evidence. This substantiation may be shown through one (1) or more of the following: 1. Course descriptions in official school catalogs; 2. Course syllabi; or 3. A signed written statement from a graduate dean, department chair, or professor who taught the class that the course was an in-depth study solely devoted to a particular core area and that the course included lectures and discussions concerning a wide range of the key topics in that core area; and (F) The committee will not count undergraduate level courses taken by an applicant as meeting any academic requirements unless the applicant’s official graduate transcript clearly shows that the course was awarded graduate credit by the school or that a competency examination was successfully passed in that particular core area and is clearly shown on the transcript. (4) The applicant, upon request, shall furnish to the committee satisfactory evidence that the degree is a doctoral degree in psychology. (A) Satisfactory evidence shall be competent and substantial evidence admissible in the courts of Missouri establishing that the degree is a doctoral degree in psychology. (B) Failure by the applicant to submit that evidence shall constitute evidence that the degree is not a doctoral degree in psychology. (5) One year’s residency as used in section 337.025.3(h), RSMo is defined as—at least nine (9) hours of weekly face-to-face psychological instruction, supervision, and/or consultation with multiple program faculty and students at the educational institution for a minimum of one (1) year. AUTHORITY: sections 337.025, 337.033, and 337.050.9, RSMo Supp. 2020.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 235-2.005. Original rule filed Feb. 4, 1992, effective Dec. 3, 1992. Amended: Filed June 1, 2000, effective Nov. 30, 2000. Moved to 20 CSR 2235-2.005, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed July 9, 2008, effective Jan. 30, 2009. Amended: Filed Nov. 20, 2020, effective June 30, 2021. *Original authority: 337.025, RSMo 1977, amended 1989, 1998, 2017, 2018; 337.033, RSMo 1989, amended 1998, 2018; and 337.050, RSMo 1977, amended 1981, 1989, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2020.