The Code: 41.11 - 41.58 License to Miscellaneous Flashcards

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What is the licensure process? (7 facts)

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  • Provide an application
  • Submit Transcript
  • Criminal History
  • Child Abuse Clearance
  • Internship Verification
  • Examinations of EPPP and PPLE
  • Other materials requested by the board.
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How much does the application cost?

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Initial application fee…$105

Fictitious/corporate name registration…$80

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What is the procedure for Reactivation of Licensure due to Failure to Re-register

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, do the following:

  • Pay the biennial fee
  • Complete CEUs
  • Sign affidavit saying you didn’t practice when your license was lapses.
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Fee for Failure to Re-register in time and engaging in authorized practice

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Pay a late fee of $5 for each month or part of the month for unauthorized practice

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Professional Corporations

  • Who can a psychologist incorporate with?
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  • Healthcare Providers
  • Engineers
  • Teachers of Hearing Impaired
  • Social Workers

Incorporations must be filed with the board prior to Corporation Bureau

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Professional Corporations

- What naming conventions are allowed?

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Nothing misleading, inaccurate, false, deceptive
If you name your practice based within a scope, you have to show documentation that you are sufficiently trained to provide the service

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What are the rules for fictitious names? who do you file with?

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  • Have to file with the board for review and approval prior to submission to the Corp Bureau and identify all parties with ownership interest in the practice
  • Nothing misleading, inaccurate, false, deceptive
    If you name your practice based within a scope, you have to show documentation that you are sufficiently trained to provide the service
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What are the education requirements?

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  • Degree from accredited university/college (approved by APA/CPA/ASPPB/Rational Register) or a foreign college/university with comparable training
  • Transcript detailing training
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What are the education requirements for someone enrolled in a field related to psychology on or after July 1, 2008

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They are evaluated based on present board guidelines

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What are the education requirements for someone enrolled in a field related to psychology before March 23, 1991

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They’re evaluated based on the guidelines at the time of their application

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What’s defines an acceptable experience in the licensure guidelines

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Practice must be consistent with your training

Must be supervised by a primary or delegated supervisor

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What are some of the non-professionally related exceptions to waiving the education/exp requirements for licensure?

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Hardship or medical reasons, must write to the board detailing information explaining your case.

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What’s the effective date for being evaluated under the current guidelines

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After December 6 2010

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What are some of the requirements and responsibilities of a Supervisor

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  • Be licensed
  • Be qualified to practice in resident’s related areas
  • Own or be an employee of the site employing the resident
  • Review Ethical issues
  • Develop a learning objectives with resident
  • Terminate services on behalf of the resident
  • Terminate the supervisory relationship
  • Make sure that resident has access to whatever will benefit their training needs
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How long must supervisor’s maintain notes

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Every session until resident obtains license
or at least 10 years

whichever is greater

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How often must supervisors write reviews of the resident? What must it contain?

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At least quarterly
Must contain strengths and growth edges
Included in applicant’s application for licensure

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What are some of the ways you can waive an examination?

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  • If the applicant is of international/national reputation based on making extraordinary contributions to the field of psychology
  • Write to the board documenting the reason w/ evidence
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What are the guidelines for a person licensed in another state? Can they practice? If so, for how long?

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  • They must notify the board of their licensure status in another state
  • They can practice temporarily for up to 6 months without a PA license with permission by the Board (and will only grant one extension)
  • Temporary assignment up to 14 days does not need to be notified.
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What’s the procedure for communicating with the board?

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  • All forms of communication has to be made in writing directed to the Board office in order to be deemed official.
20
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What must be included ( minimum requirements ) for content in documentation and record keeping?

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  • All accurate info regarding client location, age, legal guardians or parents if necessary, parent marital status (if working with a minor, and who has custody?
  • Presenting Problem and Dx
  • Fee arrangement
  • Beginning and End of Service Date
  • Test eval results and Reports
  • Notes of any formal results
  • ROIs and other important waivers
  • Must be stored securely
  • Kept for 5+ years after the end of service (ultimately, if a legal requirement needs you maintain records longer, you do it)
  • Secure method of safe disposal if you pass away
21
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How many trainees can a supervisor have?

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3 full time or equivalent part time

22
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How many hours a week must a supervisor meet with a resident

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  • Meet for 2 hours of supervision a week (unless 1 is delegated)
23
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Do supervisor’s have to make the unlicensed status of their trainees known to third-party payors and clients?

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Yes

24
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When do supervisor’s have to take a supervision class

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Must take a supervision class after 12/1/15

25
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School psychologists may perform in private practice those acts:

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which they are permitted to perform in the public and private schools of this Commonwealth if they entered graduate school in school psychology before 2018
- certified by dep of education

26
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Reapplication fee for first failure?

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Reapplication fee—first-time examination failure…$20

27
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Reapplication fee for second and future failures?

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Reapplication fee—subsequent examination failure…$90

28
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Certification fees?

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Certification fee…$25

29
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Verification fees?

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$15

30
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Biennial renewal fee?

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Biennial renewal fee…$300

31
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Application fee for continuing education sponsor and provider approval?

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Application fee—continuing education sponsor/ provider approval…$165

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Fictitious/corporate name registration fee?

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Fictitious/corporate name registration…$80

33
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When must you renew?

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  • Renew Biennium (December 1 of each odd-number year)
34
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Are there fees for biennial renewal and wall certificates?

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  • Fees charged for duplicate wall certificates (with a written request indicating that it has been lost or destroyed; must be returned if original is found) and biennial renewal documents
35
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Qualifications for Contact Hours

How many hours equal a year?

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1750 hours

36
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Qualifications for Contact Hours

How many hours can you get a week

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15-45 hours counted per week

37
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Qualifications for Contact Hours

how many hours must be from clinical practice, consultation, and supervision?

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50% = performing diagnosis, assessment, therapy, other interventions, supervision or consultation, and receiving supervision or consultation

38
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Qualifications for Contact Hours

How many hours can be from activities OTHER THAN clinical practice, consultation, and supervision

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50%

39
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Qualifications for Contact Hours

When must your hours be completed?

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Within 10 years of the awarded degree

40
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Qualifications for Contact Hours

How long do you have to be at a location for your work there to count towards your hours?

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From a site, you worked at for 6+ months

Fulfills hour restrictions (15-45 hours)

41
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What happens if you can’t complete your hours within 10 calendar years of your awarded degree?

Is there a reviewal process? If so, how often?

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A psychologist who cannot meet this time frame due to hardship or medical necessity may apply to the Board in writing for a waiver. The request must include a description of circumstances sufficient to show why compliance was impossible. Waiver requests will be evaluated by the Board on a case-by-case basis and will be approved or disapproved at its discretion.