Categories of continuing education programs and credits

A minimum of three continuing education credits per reporting cycle must be in the area of professional ethics, law, or jurisprudence. A minimum of three continuing education credits per reporting cycle must be in the area of supervision for licensees supervising psychology residents or registered applied behavior analysts. The board recognizes the following categories of continuing education programs or activities and established credit hours: 1. Formal continuing education programs that may consist of courses, workshops, professional psychology conventions or conferences, or institutes. Such programs must include both instructor and attendee real-time interaction on a verbal level whether in person or through interactive video technologies. The number of continuing education credits assigned by an association recognized by the board will be accepted. Otherwise the credits will be one credit per clock-hour. 2. Regularly scheduled postgraduate courses offered by an accredited college or university that are relevant to the practice of psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, or applied behavior analysis. One quarter hour of academic credit constitutes ten continuing education credits. One semester hour of academic credit constitutes fifteen continuing education credits. Documentation by transcript is required. 3. Writing or speaking, including a paper or other presentation at a formal professional meeting, a paper published in a professional journal, or a book or an original chapter in an edited book in the area of psychology or a related field. Credit will be granted for the year of publication or presentation in the case of a paper. Graduate course teachings within a higher education setting will be granted at twenty continuing education credits for the initial year of offering. Continuing education credits will be granted at the rate of five for each paper or presentation, fifteen for each chapter in a book, fifteen for editing a book, and twenty for the publication of a book. Continuing education credits will be granted only once for any given paper or presentation. A maximum of twenty continuing education credits per reporting cycle will be granted for continuing education programs in this category. 4. Correspondence or online courses, recordings, or independent readings approved by the board or by one of the associations recognized by the board which include an examination component successfully completed by the licensee. A maximum of twenty continuing education credits per reporting cycle will be granted for continuing education programs in this category.