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David Fye, the board’s executive director, said the survey was open from January through Feb. 23, 2025, and was designed to produce both profession-specific reports and a comparative report across the six other professions the board regulates. “We received feedback from 297 individuals for an overall response rate of about 28.4%, which for a voluntary survey is a really good number,” Fye said.

Key findings from the draft report included:
- Workforce geography: Among respondents who listed a single county, the largest concentrations were in Johnson, Sedgwick and Douglas counties. When asked where they practiced, 86 percent said an urban area and 14 percent said rural or frontier.
- Experience levels: About 81 percent of respondents reported more than 10 years of practice experience.
- Work setting and hours: Fifty-five percent reported working in private practice; the most common weekly in-person service range was 20–40 hours. Telehealth usage was low for most respondents: 57 percent reported fewer than five hours of telehealth per week.
- Supervision: Two-thirds of respondents who answered the supervision question said they provided fewer than five hours per week supervising, managing or overseeing others; many narrative comments raised concerns about supervisee preparedness and generational differences in training.
- Artificial intelligence: A large majority (196 of 257 respondents to that question) reported not using AI; the most common current AI use was writing and grammar assistance.
- Workforce retention: Two-thirds did not expect to retire in the next five years, but 18 percent said they do expect to retire and 13 percent were unsure; combined, that could mean about 30 percent of respondents may leave practice within five years.

The report also collected open-ended concerns from licensees. Fye summarized the most frequently raised practice areas needing more training as insurance and reimbursement issues, assessment and diagnostics (including autism spectrum and neurodivergence), trauma-informed care, evidence-based treatments, ethics and suicide prevention. Several respondents raised concerns about title protection and the role of master’s-level psychologists; others noted insurance barriers to telehealth, client privacy during remote care, and technical connectivity issues.

“We tried to preserve the voice of the individuals who responded to the survey while removing a little bit of information here and there to keep it anonymous,” Fye said. He asked committee members to review the appendices in the draft report and bring questions back to the June meeting.

Committee members suggested the survey findings are relevant to the postdoctoral experience discussion: several members linked supervisee preparedness and inconsistent practicum documentation to the debate over whether to count predoctoral hours toward licensure. The committee asked staff to circulate comparative profession reports and to prepare the survey materials for public posting after final edits.

The draft report will be revised and then incorporated into a comparative report across all professions the BSRB regulates. Staff said they intend to publish the final report on the BSRB website and to use the results to inform outreach to stakeholders including training programs and professional associations.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Kansas BSRB - Licensed Psychology Advisory Committee Meeting on April 29, 2025","oneSentenceSummary","The Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board presented a draft survey report for psychologists at the Licensed Psychology Advisory Committee meeting, summarizing responses from 297 licensees and a 28.4 percent response rate.","taxTitle","Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board, State Agencies, Organizations, Executive, Kansas","taxId",22355,"location","Kansas","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6573762,"Kansas psychology advisory committee begins rewrite of postdoctoral experience rules, tables final decision to June",1531,2279000,3810000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3154587-fa886abe6880da2554d3559f7c7cf0f4&start=2279&end=3810","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3154587-fa886abe6880da2554d3559f7c7cf0f4/thumbnail_2279000.jpg","/articles/6573762/Kansas/Kansas-psychology-advisory-committee-begins-rewrite-of-postdoctoral-experience-rules-tables-final-decision-to-June","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6573762-263ce286d5270e006f8725db37d9e572/orig.mp4?Expires=1770911587&Signature=Lt5QxItTW34qy1x6NQkJEF8~qau0o6fwLUY5Gnoxba~~xGG7WL3Vn5fbkEQvbjqZAWEk8fKJJXRtFHTEwCL8FLEpUxH5BTrQ6So6-aBx~I92sLSH8HToZI7InJZzBXaqSY8od5y8~K2tCxrgNkRlPL08tyVAtBwsm-v9FAO3wmXcn6Rc8t5EJfBFVecfZvqFuewEallbNVr5CzKHABFvoormydg-F9AJgKiG41uppv1dguhR8DKOURAjKV0bOX0fN31fuKguSqBiL1AnAREBuzv4aQt6pbIUTORYI6RvVChN07xMgVIl1cpPvWgswKt0PePhdfWMOClGkj~-68ahvQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Licensed Psychology Advisory Committee of the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board spent its May meeting reviewing draft regulatory language that would change the experience requirement for psychologist licensure to two years, or 3,600 hours, and debated whether some predoctoral practicum hours should count toward that total.

The committee did not adopt a final rule. Members directed staff to prepare options and to continue the discussion at the committee’s next meeting on June 10, 2025.

The discussion matters because the change would alter how early-career psychologists document supervised experience before full licensure. Leslie Allen, a staff member for the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board, presented draft language that would require 1 year and 1,800 hours to be an internship meeting the stated standards, while the remaining 1 year and 1,800 hours could be predoctoral, postdoctoral, or a combination.

“We did not want to list a bunch of requirements because I don’t know that much about practicum in doctoral programs,” Allen said as she reviewed the draft. She asked the committee whether the regulations should specify supervision ratios, minimum direct-client-contact percentages, or limit what years of a graduate program could be counted.

Committee members raised several concerns about treating practicum and internship hours as interchangeable. Jessica Hamilton, an advisory committee member, said practicum experiences typically differ substantially from internships in structure and oversight. “Practicum experiences are a very different nature of training than what somebody has received or who had completed a postdoctoral fellowship,” Hamilton said.

Members debated several technical points that would affect implementation if the regulation changed: whether programs must document a minimum percentage of direct client contact (one state example cited required 25 percent), whether supervision should follow internship-style ratios (for example, documented supervision hours per trainee), which predoctoral years should count toward licensure, and whether a master’s degree should be required before predoctoral hours begin to accrue. Several participants said documentation standards will be critical: without consistent documentation of supervision and direct-contact time, many predoctoral hours could be ineligible.

David Fye, executive director for the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board, summarized the practical effect of any adopted change: detailed, consistent documentation would be needed to accept predoctoral hours and that the board staff could model options after other states or ASPPB resources.

The committee agreed staff would prepare a spreadsheet of options and comparative language from other jurisdictions for review before the June meeting. Allen said she would circulate the American Psychology–related model regulations and resources she had gathered to the committee.

Because the committee did not take final action, no statutory or regulatory change was adopted at this meeting. Chair (name not specified) moved to table further deliberation until the June 10 meeting; the committee agreed to resume the item then.

The committee also asked staff to return with specific wording options that would define: what types of predoctoral practicum (if any) could be counted; required minimums for direct client contact and supervision ratios; and whether a master’s degree or other milestone should gate when hours may begin to accrue.

A rewritten rule would be a regulation; staff and committee members noted that whether a statutory change would be required depends on the final scope of language the committee recommends to the full board.","The committee reviewed draft regulatory language to change the postdoctoral experience requirement to two years (3,600 hours), debated whether predoctoral practicum can be counted, supervision ratios and documentation, and agreed to continue the discussion at the June meeting.","actionData","errors"]

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