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Advisory committee weighs changing postdoctoral supervised-experience requirement to credit predoctoral hours
Summary
Members discussed whether Kansas should allow practicum and predoctoral supervised hours to count toward the supervised-experience requirement for psychology licensure, citing workforce shortages and reciprocity concerns.
The Life and Psychology Advisory Committee discussed possible regulatory changes to allow predoctoral practicum hours to count toward the supervised-experience requirement for psychology licensure, a step committee members said could ease workforce shortages in Kansas.
Leslie Allen, assistant director and licensing manager, described current practice: Kansas requires two years of supervised experience and specifically references a one-year internship; the regulation language has required a postdoctoral year in practice for many applicants. "Currently, we require at least 1 year of postdoc. Most people do 1 year predoc internship and…
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