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Rule for Emeritus Psychologists’ CEUs Proposed
After months of confusion following an October 2013 rule change that deleted the continuing education waiver for Emeritus Psychologists, the psychology board published a notice in the February Louisiana Register.
The proposed Rule notes, “This modification provides for an exemption for emeritus licenses until 2015 and 2016. Emeritus licensees who hold an odd license will begin accruing continuing education hours on July 1, 2015 and will report by June 30, 2017.
“Emeritus licensees who hold an even license will begin accruing continuing education hours on July 1, 2016 and will report by June 30, 2018.”
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Psychologist Provisional License Rule Proposed
The psychology board published its proposed Rule for the new law on provisional licenses for psychologists, following Act 137 of the 2014 legislature that established the new credential for doctoral level psychology interns in their second year of supervision. The proposed Rule will modify the occupational and professional standards, the Louisiana Administrative Code (LAC) for psychologists.
Those doctoral level trainees who have completed a minimum of one year of experience practicing psychology under the supervision of a licensed psychologist are eligible to apply for the provisional license, according to Act 137. The proposed Rule covers requirements, application, supervision, and disciplinary actions. Also covered are ethical standards and other topics.
The proposed Rule includes those candidates who have completed their first year of supervision or who has “completed an approved predoctoral internship as defined in the rules and regulations of the board and required as part of the doctoral degree in psychology as defined by the board and all other experience being post-doctoral; …”
The Rule includes medical psychologists as supervisors of the second year interns applying for the provisional license, following Act 137 as amended by the medical psychologist lobby in 2014. But the Rule also appears to modify supervision standards to include medical psychologists overall. (See related article this issue.)
Fee for application is set $150 and the oral exam fee is $250.
Written comments should go Kelly Parker, Executive Director, 8706 Jefferson Highway, Suite B, Baton Rouge, LA 70809. All comments must be submitted by 12 p.m. on March 23, 2015, this according to the announcement.
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A Time Machine Would Help by J. Nelson
“No doctors,” rasped the character Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything. The movie reminds us that Hawking, now age 72, was diagnosed at 21 with ALS and given only two years to live. There is no biological treatment for ALS so medical experts can’t explain it. Some are willing to claim the null and say it’s not due to his psychology (mind- body), demonstrating that they haven’t read A Brief History of Time or an introductory statistics text.
Hawking may have been spared iatrogenic problems but there is ample evidence that they abound for the rest of us. A recent study showing that heart patients died significantly less when their cardiologists were off at conventions adds to the picture. There’s even a slogan, “First, do no harm.” When you have a slogan, you know you have a real problem.
Robert Whitakers’ presentation last month at the Louisiana Marriage & Family Therapists Association convention brings the iatrogenic theme into focus when it comes to psychiatric drugs. If Whitaker is right, and he makes a compelling case, then not only antidepressants, but anti- psychotics, and stimulants might well be doing more harm than good.
It is of some comfort that Whitaker, an investigative journalist, leans on the work of psychologists, including Irving Kirsch who was hosted by the Louisiana Psychological Association and Tulane in 2013. Whitaker also leans on research by Martin Harrow, a psychologist who has been doing longitudinal research with schizophrenics for decades. Once at Yale, Harrow is also a chess master. So who are you going to believe––Big Pharma or someone who tied Bobby Fischer twice?
Kirsch’s and Whitaker’s mass market books are beginning to move the beliefs of the large social system–no easy feat. It took the medical profession 25 years to stop x-raying pregnant women after the evidence showed that it harmed the baby.
Last year researchers in a JAMA article took up Kirsch’s ideas and spurred debate picked up in news outlets such as The New Yorker, Newsweek, and New York Times. Even Dr. Oz got into it with his “Truth about Antidepressants,” episode, demonstrating the problem by pouring blue liquid into a plexiglass head with holes drilled in it so the blue stuff splashed out everywhere.
Whitaker casts serious doubt on these drugs, but his perspective also shows deficiencies in the problem-solving function of the healthcare social system. Science works by successive approximations to a goal of pure truth that we can never reach. But are we to expect consumers to wait 30 years for medical science to figure things out and be harmed in the meantime?
Do we opt for a symptom treatment, with volume sales potential, and stop searching for real causes of disease? Some recent findings in nutritional mental health tell us we’re better off popping a probiotic than a Prozac. If Whitaker is right about psychiatric drugs, what are we to think about the validity behind the rest of the almost $1 trillion drug market, like those for treating cancer and immune disorders?
Psychologist Philip Tetlock concludes in his book on human judgment that we don’t have to fully accept George Bernard Shaw’s definition of professions––conspiracies to defraud the public––in order for us to recognize our problems.
“… there is a strong desire among mass-public consumers to believe that they live in a predictable world and an equally strong desire among more elite consumers in the media, business, and government to appear to be doing the right thing by ritualistically consulting the usual suspects from widely recognized interest groups,” Tetlock writes.
Some feel the “…tight symbiotic embrace between self-confident suppliers of dubious products and their cling-on customers,” is inevitable, Tetlock says. But he believes that with the analytical tools we have in science, and journalism, and with thoughtful application, we can build self-correcting epistemic systems.
Or, we could get a time machine.
In the 1960 classic movie, Time Machine, the underworld trolls, the Morlocks, fatten up and feed off the Eloi, the above ground, complacent, and woefully out-of-touch Agreeables. It isn’t until Rod Taylor comes sailing in from the long ago past that the Eloi wake up to the fact that there’s a big problem.
We can’t always count on someone to put the self-interest of others above his or her own interests. It is not how we are wired. We can’t even always depend on ourselves.
But we can count on an open, self-correcting system to help discover the truth, or some approximation of it, hopefully sooner rather than later. We’re wired for self-interest but we’re also wired to do the right thing.
Photos are from H.G. Wells’ 1960 movie, The Time Machine production and Yvette Mimieux’s photo archives.
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ASPPB Seeks Comments for New Guidelines on Supervising Psychologists
The Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) posted a draft set of Supervision Guidelines for Education and Training leading to Licensure as a Health Service Provider. They are seeking public comments until March 31 and can be submitted on ASPPB’s website.
The present Guidelines were revised in 2003. “Since that time much as been written about the process, methods and techniques of supervision thus leading us to once again review and revise the ASPPB Supervision Guidelines,” noted the authors.
The revision is for those psychologists in health service and other guidelines will be developed for general applied psychologists, and for supervision outside of the traditional realm, said the author.
The draft covers topics of ethics, supervisor competencies, supervision at different levels of training, supervision contracts, and specialty areas of supervision. The authors note that competence in supervision should include knowledge and skills, and also supervised experience, for providing supervision.
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Grassroots Initiative, a group composed of psychologists and retired psychologists, has asked the state Ethics Board if certain decisions made by the state psychology board, with a majority of medical psychologists serving, constitute a conflict of interest.
Grassroots has opposed a number of decisions made by the psychology board and believe that those actions or lack of actions have harmed independently practicing psychologists, say sources.
Spokesman for the group, retired clinical and forensic psychologist Dr. Tom Hannie, said, “It is apparent that since the LSBEP [Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists] always has 60 percent of the votes from medical psychologists that it has been a problem. In a number of decisions they should have, in my opinion, recused themselves from voting.”
In the “Request for Advisory Opinion” submitted to the Ethics Administration this January, Grassroots asked for a review of how decisions have been made by the LSBEP. Sources at Grassroots say the request should be reviewed this month or perhaps in April.
A number of examples were listed in the Request, where Grassroots members felt that medical psychologists (MPs) may have had an obligation to disqualify themselves from either discussion or voting or both on decisions that harmed licensed psychologists.
The Request for Advisory Opinion included a description of the LSBEP 2009 discussion about Act 251 during the period that it was being lobbied by Louisiana Academy of Medical Psychologists (LAMP). At that time all five members of the psychology board were affiliated with LAMP but none of the five disqualified themselves from the discussion of Act 251.
Dr. Hannie told the Times, "They have refused to request an Opinion from the Ethics Board about a conflict of interest even after the Attorney General recommended it twice.”
Last year the LSBEP asked state Ethics if the top candidate, a non-MP, Tulane professor Dr. Constance Patterson had a conflict.
Grassroots also wrote in the Request that the state Attorney General suggested the psychology board seek an Advisory Opinion from Ethics about the possibility of conflict of interests for Medical Psychologists serving on the psychology board but the board did not appear to have complied with that suggestion.
Hannie said, "I think that what we did is a result of them [LSBEP] going to the Ethics Board on the absurb and ridiculous issue that Conni Patterson had a conflict. That they did that let us know where we should go.”
"I also wanted to do it because they [LSBEP] refused to explain their actions,” said Hannie. “They would not explain their view that the governor couldn't appoint a replacement, as the law indicates. They wouldn't tell me what they based their decision on, saying that it was attorney-client privilege,” he said.
"They are operating in the dark and I think somebody has to cast some light on it,” Hannie said.
The Request for Advisory Opinion also noted that the term “psychologist” was of economic and market value to licensed psychologists, and LAMP’s legislation misappropriated the term when they used it to create a new profession.
Grassroots asked the Ethics Board if those serving on the psychology board at the time had a duty to act in some way to protect the title and the practice of psychology, which appears to be one of their duties, or at least to recuse themselves from the discussions, because of their professional association and membership in LAMP and support for its business goals.
The Request also outlined the decisions made by the LSBEP regarding the supervision of psychology interns when the board, with a majority of medical psychologists serving, voted to qualify medical psychologists (MPs) as supervisors of psychology interns even when the MP no longer held a state psychology license.
Also included were several other examples where MPs serving did not recuse themselves from decisions that would benefit MPs, including decisions about continuing education, negotiating of Rules with the Medical Board, and reinstatement fee reductions for MPs. The Request discussed that, while benefitting MPs, the decisions diminished psychologists and constituted unfair competition.
[Editor’s Note: The publisher of the Times, Dr. Julie Nelson, is a member of Grassroots. She has actively opposed parts of Act 251. She signed the Request described in this story and has helped gather information about the psychology board’s actions.]
The psychology board at a 2010 meeting. The then board Chair, Dr. Jillandra Rovaris, listens to Dr. Joe Comaty. Dr. Comaty is also now serving on the psychology board for a second term.
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No Word Yet From Institute of Medicine On Validity Tests
Last year the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reviewed testimony about the value of using symptom validity tests to measure malingering by claimants in Social Security Administration disability evaluations. The IOM has not published its findings yet.
The review came after a 2013 report by the Office of Inspector General saying that the Administration should update its policy. Louisiana neuropsychologists Dr. Michael Chafetz and Dr. Kevin Bianchini were among those providing information to the IOM.
Dr. Michael Chafetz
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With oil prices at record lows, Governor published his Executive Budget for 2015-2016 on February 27 with some tight squeezes between rocks and hard places, including a 4.7 per- cent reduction overall and 727 fewer agency positions.
The Budget proposes total funding of $24.6 billion, a decrease of $1.2 billion, compared to last year’s budget of $25.8 billion.
“The loss of oil revenue accounts for nearly one-third of the shortfall once growth, inflation and non-recurring expenses are removed,” noted the report, pointing to a projected $376.2 million in loss revenue and $1.6 billion shortfall.
The Governor proposes solving the shortfall by tax reform of 34 percent, continuing expenses for 10 percent, efficiencies of 7 percent, replacement revenue of 19 percent, and reductions of 30 percent.
Tax credit reforms include doing away with such tax credits as inventory tax credits, wind and solar, research and development, musical and theatrical, and others. Agency reductions are set at 727, “resulting in the smallest number of state government employees in 25 years,” noted the authors of the report.
In healthcare, the Budget calls for no Medicaid rate reductions, no cuts to medical schools, and no cuts to Bayou Health plans. Current funding levels for LSU public-private partnerships hospitals and clinics are to be protected and also those receiving home and community-based waiver services are also protected, according to the report.
Looking for a net reduction of $15 million in healthcare includes plans to eliminate legacy costs, eliminate in- patient major teaching hospital program, non- recurring funding for LSU Shreveport, for High Medicaid DSH Pool, and elimination of the LaHipp program. Also the Governor plans to eliminate hospital outlier pool, the Greater New Orleans Community Health Connection Program, the Developmental Neuro- psychiatric Program, and the state general fund in the LSU- Physician UPL Program.
Children and Family Services are to be reduced by $101 million, mostly related to transfer of the Child Care Grant program to DOE.
Reductions in the Department of Corrections are set to include restructure of offender healthcare, at $12 million.
Higher Education funding will decrease by $141 million, not including hospitals, LOSFA, or non-recurring adjustments/ However, there are Legislative options that could help to further reduce the impact of budget reductions to higher education in the final, enacted budget, noted the report.
The Governor lists revenue- raising options including advanced degree tuition, securitizing the tobacco settlement, and increasing fees collected by state agencies.
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Pew Finds 87 Percent of Scientists Agree with Taking Active Role in Public Debate about Science/Technology
In a survey of 3,748 American-based scientists connected with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pew Research found that 87 percent agree with the statement “Scientists should take an active role in public policy debates about issues related to science and technology.”
Just 13 percent of these scientists back the opposite statement: “Scientists should focus on establishing sound scientific facts and stay out of public policy debates.”
Most scientists see an interested public according to Pew. As many as 71 percent of AAAS scientists believe the public has either some or a lot of interest in their specialty area. And, a fair number of scientists believe careers can be advanced by media coverage of their work and social media use, said Pew: 43 percent of AAAS scientists say it is important or very important for scientists in their specialty to get coverage of their work in news media. At the same time, most scientists believe that science news coverage can pose problems for science.
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The state Legislature will convene Monday, April 13 this year and adjourn on Thursday June 11. Bills are being prefiled now.
Some of the bills prefiled so far include a bill by Representative Honore to authorize the use of medical marijuana in Louisiana.
There is a bill by Representative Hensgens, HB15, to require that schools allow parents to approve surveys that are given to their children at school.
HB32 by Richard would remove governor’s authority to veto line items in a appropriations bill.
HB38 by Representative T. Burns would prohibit drivers from using certain wireless telecommuni- cations devices while traveling on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Bridge
HB55 by Representative Ritchie and a similar Senate Bill (SB15) by Senator Nevers would authorizes the levy of a tax of 4% on hydrocarbon processing facilities in the state and direct the proceeds to be used for the Board of Regents ($300 million) for public post-secondary education. Another $250 million would be used for the maintenance of and in an effort to improve health outcomes in certain areas.
Also, the SB15 would direct $80 million is go to Department of Education and $250 million to the state employees and teachers’ retirement systems. $150 million goes into the Transportation Trust Fund.
A Senate Bill by Senator Long would make it a crime for a pregnant woman to behave in a manner that harms her unborn child, such as drug use that leads to birth defects or death.
A measure, SB10 by Senator Peterson, directs DHH to offer health insurance to all legal residents whose income is at or below 138% of the federal poverty level.
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Tulane’s Center for Continuing Education will hold the 15th Chester B. Scrignar, MD Lecture on April 11 to 13, at Westin Canal Place in New Orleans. The conference is presented by the Tulane University School of Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Continuing Education.
Dr. Richard C. W. Hall will give the Chester B. Scrignar Lecture, “Hostage Taking: National and International Aspects.”
Psychologist Dr. Rose Manguso, ABPP, will present “Language and Learning Disabilities in Criminal Defense, with Drs. Richard Martinez, Ashley Wheeler, and attorney Iris Eytan.
Other theme for this year’s conference is “From Sexual Sadism to Maternal/Fetal Rights: The Wide World of Forensic Mental Health.”
Topics include, “Love and Death Behind Bars: The Manson Family at 50,” presented by Dr. Alan Newman; “Torture Porn and the History of What Scares Us,” by Dr. Timothy Allen, and “Neurological Causes of Incompetence to Stand Trial,” presented by Dr. Jeffry Nicholl.
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LA Academy of Medical Psychologist PAC
Money Collected: $42,500 Money Paid to Politicians: $33,150 LAMP contributes to legislators throughout the year, maybe as they receive contributions. They give to a wide range of legislators but focus on Health & Welfare, names like Simon and Stokes. Checks are mostly $250, $500. Courson & Nickel are no longer paid from the PAC.
LA Psychological Association PAC
Money Collected: $2,395 Money Paid to Politicians: 0 The LPA PAC did not list any money going to candidates or legislators. But, they did pay $6,951 for administration costs.
LA State Medical PAC
Money Collected: $56,660 Money Paid to Politicians: $4,700 Few contributions to legislators listed for 2014. But going back to 2013, many more contributions were made, in the tens of thousands, most in $1,000 or $500 checks to candidates and legislators, names like Mills, Pope, and Nevers.
Licensed Professional Counselors PAC
Money Collected: $3,061 plus about $1,000 gifts Money Paid to Politicians: $1,000 These figures come from 2013 because we could not download the files for 2014. Most contributions are $25, $50 or $100, or gifts. The PAC made two $500 contributions in 2013.
Louisiana Political Action for Candidate Election
Money Collected: $0 Money Paid to Politicians: 0 This is the PAC for social workers. No activity was reported.
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A Day of Mindfulness for Mental Health Professionals Set for April 18 in Baton Rouge at Tam Bao Buddhist Temple
The 6th Annual Mindfulness Day for Mental Health Professionals will be held on Saturday April 18 at the Tam Bao Temple, 975 Monterrey Blvd., in Baton Rouge.
This year’s presenters will include Sherry Desselle, Ph.D., a staff psychologist at Louisiana State University's Mental Health Services. She is the owner of Baton Rouge Center for Anxiety Treatment.
Also presenting is Nicole Falgoust, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker with a Ph.D. in psychological anthropology. She has a private practice in Baton Rouge.
Thay Dao Quang, M.Ed., is the abbot of Tam Bao Buddhist Temple in Baton Rouge. David Weibel, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge will also present.
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After a two-year shutdown, the Louisiana State University Psychology Department plans on restarting its Industrial- Organizational Psychology Program.
According to Search Committee Chair, Dr. Janet McDonald, the department is currently interviewing for two Industrial-Organizational Psychology faculty positions one at the associate professor level and one at the assistant professor level. The Times spoke with Dr. McDonald last month who said that the reinstating of the program was a decision supported by the department and the university.
According to the university job information, the tenured Associate Professor will direct the Industrial-Organization Ph.D. program and guide its future growth in collaboration with the Department Chair, Dr. Jason Hicks. The ideal candidate will have a highly visible research program. The Assistant Professor will include graduate and undergraduate teaching and a strong line of research.
Dr. Courtland Chaney, I-O psychologist and retired professor from the LSU, is helping with the search. “In the 1970s and 1980s the industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology program at LSU was well-established and successful in its use of a scientist–practitioner model, preparing graduates for both university and business careers,” Chaney explained to the Times.
In a memo to the department Chaney recommended that the I-O program include the “three historically relevant areas of ‘industrial,’ ‘organizational,’ and ‘social’ psychology,” and noted areas such as job analysis, test validation, job performance measurement and prediction for industrial, and areas such as individual, interpersonal, group behavior and organization development for organizational.
He also noted that he saw some overlap with present department strengths to be beneficial. “New I-O faculty potentially could work with school faculty on topics such as teacher evaluation procedures, teacher morale, school safety and violence mitigation, impact of school privatization, and other efforts at improving school management. I-O faculty also could work with cognitive faculty in researching decision-making processes among business and government leaders under different circumstances (e.g., strategic planning, making decisions during crises or under duress). […]”
In 2013 the Times reported the end of the LSU IO program. At that time the Chair Dr. Bob Mathews said that due to resources the program was “Gone for good.”
The LSU Industrial-Organizational Psychology Program was one of the oldest, continuously running I-O programs in the US, with a long, distinguished legacy. It marked its 60th anniversary in 2012, beginning in 1952 with Dr. Bernard Bass, an early expert in I-O who gained national acclaim for his work in transformational leadership. The combination of Dr. Larry Siegel and Dr. Irv Lane, both who served as Chair, marked for many a profound influence through the 60s, 70s, and 80s. Greg Dobbins and Dirk Steiner took the reins into the next decade, and to a program led by Dr. Tracey Rizzuto and Dr. Russell Matthews until 2013.
Dr. Matthews is now at Bowling Green State University and Director of the Institute for Psychological Research and Application.
Dr. Rizzuto is currently Associate Director of the Human Resource & Leadership Development program with the School of Human Resource Education & Workforce in the LSU College of Human Sciences & Education. She is the Mary Ethel Baxter Lipscomb Memorial Endowed Professor.
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April 24-25 in Shreveport Red River Institute Hosts Dr. Patch Adams for Spring Conference
The Red River Institute will host Dr. Patch Adams at its 2015 Spring Conference, to be held April 24 and 25 in Shreveport. The theme for the conference is “Healing the World, One Relationship at a Time. The location is the First Methodist Church on 500 Common Street in Shreveport.
The program notes, “Patch Adams, internationally recognized activist, speaker, and author, is best known for the way he has brought healing to the world by ‘clowning’ his way into the hearts of his patients. Patch is the founder of The Gesundheit Institute, a non- profit healthcare organization that offers holistic medical care based on the belief that one cannot separate the health of the individual from the health of the family, the community, the society, and the world. The mission of the Gesundheit Institute is to reframe and reclaim the concept of ‘hospital’.”
The theme “focuses on human connectedness as a healing tool fundamental to all contemporary healing disciplines, medical and nonmedical.” Presentations will address the politics, ethics, and practice in using the human relationship systems as a necessary element in healing, note the organizers.
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DHH Tries Again to Develop Rules for Treatment Facilities, Some Providers
The Department of Health and Hospitals, Bureau of Health Services Financing, is trying again to develop the new Rules covering the licensing standards for substance abuse/addiction treatment facilities, and mental health clinics, and behavioral health service providers, to comply with Act 308, according to a Notice published in the February Louisiana Register.
The newest effort includes 42 pages of information after last year’s effort resulting in extensive comments from the public. So, the Department abandoned the Notice of Intent published in the March 20, 2014 edition of the Louisiana Register. The department now proposes to promulgate a revised Notice of Intent, pages 439 to 480 in the February Register.
A public hearing on this proposed Rule is scheduled for Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. in Room 118, Bienville Building, 628 North Fourth Street, Baton Rouge, LA. At that time all interested persons will be given a chance to submit data, views or arguments either orally or in writing, wrote Secretary Kathy Kliebert. Written comments are due by 4:30 on the next business day following the public meeting.
The proposed Rules Include substance abuse/addiction treatment facilities; mental health clinics; and any other entity that meets the definition of a BHS provider. Licensed substance abuse/addiction treatment facilities and mental health clinics have one year from the date of promulgation of the final Rule to comply with all of the provisions herein.
Those exempt from the licensure requirements for “Behaviorial Health Service” providers include certain hospitals (licensed under certain conditios as described in the Rule) and similarily certain crisis receiving centers, nursing homes, psychiatric residential treatment facilities and therapeutic group homes, facilities or services operated by the federal government; federally qualified health care centers; community mental health centers, and others.
Also exemptions include any individual licensed mental health professional (LMHP), whether incorporated or unincorporated, or a group practice of LMHPs, providing services under the auspices of and pursuant to the scope of the individual’s license or group’s licenses, among others.
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