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Kansas BSRB reports progress on multistate compacts, licensee survey and workforce trends
Summary
Board staff reported on multistate compact implementation (PSYPACT, professional counseling compact, social work compact), a licensee survey with roughly 4,000 respondents, and modest license growth; members discussed supervision, AI regulation, and training takeaways from national conferences.
At its Nov. 10 meeting the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board heard a multipart update on multistate compacts and on a broad licensee survey the agency expects to finalize by year end.
Executive Director David Fye said the board is a member of three compacts and described differences across models: PSYPACT (psychology compact) focuses primarily on telehealth and limits some master's-level psychologists; the professional counseling compact uses a privilege model with no grace period for background checks; and the social work compact will have states issuing multistate licenses and reporting to a compact commission. Fye said Kansas passed social-work compact…
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