Article archive / February 1, 2013
Originally published: . Volume 4, No. 6. Source pages: 6.
The psychology board is planning on finalizing changes regarding the continuing education requirements for licensed psychologists at their March long-range planning session, Executive Director Kelly Parker told the Times last week.
The changes will likely increase continuing education hours from the present biannual requirement of 30 hours, to 40 hours. The board had also proposed to expand the types of activities that can be submitted for credit.
These new types of educational activities include practice monitoring, peer consultation, journal clubs, and work on committees, for example, to be added to the traditional classroom style education.
Ms. Parker explained that the board has been working through the comments since they were received in September. “The board may complete the work at the long- range planning meeting,” she said. This meeting is to be held March 14, 2013, in Baton Rouge, and is open to the public.
After publishing the proposed changes in the Louisiana Register, the psychology board received about thirty comments.
The most common feedback asked the board to consider maintaining the allowances for traditional type training, such as workshops and seminars. At present, these are allowed to account for 100 percent of a psychologist’s continuing educational training.
The board’s plan, generally following the suggestions of the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, proposed to reduce the traditional classroom training activities to a maximum of 50 percent of the total hours allowed.
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