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Kansas psychologists urge removing blanket postdoctoral requirement to speed licensure
Summary
Jason Maloshek, president of the Kansas Psychological Association, told the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board advisory committee that removing a universal postdoctoral year requirement for licensure — when postdoc training is not for targeted expertise — would reduce financial and mobility barriers and help address workforce shortages, especially in rural Kansas.
WICHITA (remote) — Dr. Jason Maloshek, president of the Kansas Psychological Association, told the Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board advisory committee that the state should stop requiring a universal postdoctoral year for psychology licensure when that year is not used to develop a specialty.
Maloshek said the training landscape has changed since the American Psychological Association first shaped model licensure standards and that many doctoral students already accumulate substantial practicum and internship hours before graduation. “If you have 1,800 to 2,000 hours of internship, their same practicum hours were sitting around the 1,500 to 1,800 hour…
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