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| Public Act 098-0849
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| SB3406 Enrolled | LRB098 19912 ZMM 55131 b |
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Clinical Psychologist Licensing Act is |
amended by changing Section 10 as follows:
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(225 ILCS 15/10) (from Ch. 111, par. 5360)
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(Section scheduled to be repealed on January 1, 2017)
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Sec. 10. Qualifications of applicants; examination. The |
Department,
except as provided in Section 11 of this Act,
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issue a license as a clinical psychologist to any person who |
pays an
application fee and who:
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(1) is at least 21 years of age; and has not engaged in |
conduct or
activities which would constitute grounds for |
discipline under this Act;
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(2) (blank);
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(3) is a graduate of a doctoral program from a college,
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university or school accredited by the regional |
accrediting body which is
recognized by
the Council on |
Postsecondary Accreditation and is in the jurisdiction
in |
which it is located for purposes of granting the doctoral |
degree and either:
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(a) is a graduate of a doctoral program in |
clinical, school or
counseling psychology either |
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accredited by the American Psychological
Association |
or the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation |
System or approved by the Council for the National |
Register of Health
Service Providers in Psychology or |
other national board recognized by the
Board, and has |
completed 2 years of satisfactory supervised
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experience
in clinical, school or counseling |
psychology at least one of which is an
internship and |
one of which is postdoctoral; or
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(b) holds a doctoral degree from a recognized |
college, university or
school which the Department, |
through its rules, establishes as being
equivalent to a |
clinical, school or counseling psychology program and |
has
completed at least one course in each of the |
following 7 content areas, in
actual attendance at a |
recognized university, college or school whose |
graduates
would be eligible for licensure under this |
Act: scientific and
professional ethics, biological |
basis of behavior, cognitive-affective
basis of |
behavior, social basis of behavior, individual |
differences,
assessment, and treatment modalities; and |
has completed 2 years of
satisfactory supervised |
experience in clinical, school or counseling
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psychology, at least one of which is an internship and |
one of which is
postdoctoral; or
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(c) holds a doctorate in psychology or in a
program
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whose content is psychological in nature from an |
accredited college,
university or school not meeting |
the standards of paragraph (a) or (b) of
this |
subsection (3) and provides
evidence of the completion |
of at least one course in each of the 7
content areas |
specified in paragraph (b) in actual attendance at a |
recognized university,
school or college whose |
graduate would be eligible for licensure under this
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Act; and has completed an appropriate practicum, an
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internship or
equivalent supervised clinical |
experience in an organized mental health care
setting |
and 2 years of satisfactory supervised experience in |
clinical
or counseling psychology, at least one of |
which is postdoctoral; and
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(4) has passed an examination authorized by the |
Department to
determine his or her fitness to receive a |
license.
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Applicants for licensure under subsection (3)(a) and
(3)(b) of
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this Section shall complete 2 years of satisfactory supervised
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experience, at
least one of which shall be an internship and |
one of which shall be
postdoctoral. A year of supervised |
experience is defined as not less than
1,750 hours obtained in |
not less than 50 weeks based on 35 hours per week
for full-time |
work experience. Full-time supervised experience will be
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counted only if it is obtained in a single setting for a |
minimum of 6 months.
Part-time and internship experience will |
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be counted only if it
is 18 hours or more a week for a minimum |
of 9 months and is in a
single setting. The internship |
experience required under
subsection
(3)(a) and (3)(b) of this |
Section shall be a
minimum of 1,750 hours completed within 24 |
months.
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Programs leading to a doctoral degree require minimally the |
equivalent
of 3 full-time academic years of graduate study, at |
least 2 years of
which are at the institution from which the |
degree is granted, and of which
at least one year or its |
equivalent is in residence at the institution from
which the |
degree is granted. Course work for which credit is given for |
life
experience will not be accepted by the Department as |
fulfilling the
educational requirements for licensure. |
Residence requires interaction
with psychology faculty and |
other matriculated psychology students; one
year's residence |
or its equivalent is defined as follows:
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(a) 30 semester hours taken on a full-time or part-time |
basis at the
institution accumulated within 24 months, or
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(b) a minimum of 350 hours of student-faculty contact |
involving
face-to-face individual or group courses or |
seminars accumulated within 18
months. Such educational |
meetings must include both faculty-student and
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student-student interaction, be conducted by the |
psychology faculty of the
institution at least 90% of the |
time, be fully documented by the
institution, and relate |
substantially to the program and course content.
The |
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institution must clearly document how the applicant's |
performance is
assessed and evaluated.
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To meet the requirement for satisfactory supervised |
experience, under
this Act the supervision must be performed |
pursuant to the order, control
and full professional |
responsibility of a licensed clinical psychologist.
The |
clients shall be the clients of the agency or supervisor rather |
than
the supervisee. Supervised experience in which the |
supervisor receives
monetary payment or other consideration |
from the supervisee or in which the
supervisor is hired by or |
otherwise employed by the supervisee shall not be
accepted by |
the Department as fulfilling the practicum, internship or 2
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years of satisfactory supervised experience requirements for |
licensure.
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Examinations for applicants under this Act shall be held at |
the direction
of the Department from time to time but not less |
than once each year. The
scope and form of the examination |
shall be determined by the Department.
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Each applicant for a license who possesses the necessary |
qualifications
therefor shall be examined by the Department, |
and shall pay to the
Department, or its designated testing |
service, the required examination
fee, which fee shall not be |
refunded by the Department.
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Applicants have 3 years from the date of application to |
complete the
application process. If the process has not been |
completed in 3 years, the
application shall be denied, the fee |
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shall be forfeited, and the applicant must
reapply and meet the |
requirements in effect at the time of reapplication.
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An applicant has one year from the date of notification of
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successful completion of the examination to apply to the |
Department for a
license. If an applicant fails to apply within |
one year, the applicant shall
be required to take and pass the |
examination again unless licensed in
another jurisdiction of |
the United States within one year of passing the
examination.
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(Source: P.A. 91-357, eff. 7-29-99.)
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