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Every three years when a psychologist renews his or her license,
they must be able to show that they have completed 60 hours
of continuing education (CE). Completion of CE ensures that
psychologists review existing concepts and techniques and keep
informed of advances in the field.
All CE activities are linked to maintaining or increasing
professional or scientific competence in psychology.
Courses or workshops primarily designed to increase practice
income or office efficiency, while valuable to the licensee,
are specifically non-eligible for CE credit.
Program sponsors or institutes should not apply for,
nor expect to receive, prior or current board approval for
CE status or category. Recognized activities include:
(1) Courses, seminars, workshops and post-doctoral
institutes offered by educational institutions chartered by
a state and recognized (accredited) by a regional association
of schools, colleges and universities as providing graduate
level course offerings. Such educational activities must be
recorded on an official transcript or certificate of completion.
(2) Courses (including correspondence courses), seminars,
workshops and post-doctoral institutes sponsored by the
American Psychological Association, regional or state
psychological associations or their subchapters, psychology
internship training centers, other professionally or
scientifically recognized behavioral science organizations,
and the board.
(3) Credit toward the CE requirement may be earned through
teaching an approved CE program. Credit earned through teaching
shall not exceed thirty hours every three years. Credit for
teaching an approved CE program may be earned on the following
basis:
(4) A minimum of four hours credit in ethics must be included in
the sixty hours required. Areas to be covered, depending on the
licensee's primary area(s) of function are practice, consultation,
research, teaching, and/or supervision.
(5) The board reserves the right to require any licensee to
submit evidence, e.g., course or program certificate of training,
transcript, course or workshop brochure description, evidence of
attendance, etc., in addition to the affidavit form in order to
demonstrate compliance with the sixty hours CE requirement.
In the event a licensee fails to meet requirements, because of
illness, retirement (with no further provision of psychological
services to consumers), failure to renew, or other extenuating
circumstances, each case will be considered by the board on an
individual basis.
When circumstances justify it, the board may grant a time extension.
The board may, in its discretion, limit in part or in whole the provision
of psychological services to the consumers until the CE requirements are met.
In the case of retirement or illness, the board may grant
indefinite waiver of CE as a requirement for re-licensure, provided
an affidavit be received, indicating the psychologist is not
providing psychological services to consumers.
If such illness or retirement status is changed or consumer
psychological services are resumed, it is incumbent upon the licensee
to immediately notify the board and to resume meeting CE requirements
for re-licensure. CE credit hours will be prorated for the portion of
that three-year period involving resumption of such services.
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