Section 16-98-9 - Training(a) "Training" means graduate level training leading to the doctoral degree with the curriculum encompassing a minimum of three academic years of full-time graduate study in an approved program or an accredited institution.(b) The graduate level training program shall require each student to demonstrate competence in each of the subject areas set forth in this section. This shall be met by including a minimum of three graduate semester hours (or the equivalent in graduate quarter hours) in each of the following subject areas: (1) Scientific and professional ethics and standards;(3) Research design and methodology; and(4) Statistics and psychometrics.(c) The core training program shall require each student to demonstrate competence in each of the substantive content areas set forth in this subsection. This shall be met by including a minimum of six graduate semester hours (or the equivalent in graduate quarter hours) in each of the following substantive content areas: (1) Biological bases of behavior; physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, sensation and perception, and psyehopharmaeology;(2) Cognitive-affective bases of behavior; learning, thinking, motivation, and emotion;(3) Social bases of behavior; social psychology, group processes, organizational and systems theory, and community psychology;(4) Individual differences; personality theory, human development, and abnormal psychology;(5) Psychodiagnosis and individual assessment; intellectual, personality and behavioral assessment; and(6) Therapy; child or adult intervention, or both.(d) The training program, wherever it may be administratively housed, shall be clearly identified and labeled as a psychology training program. Such a program shall specify in pertinent institutional catalogues and brochures its intent to educate and train professional psychologists. There shall be a clear authority and primary responsibility within the psychology training program for the core areas, as specified in subsections (a) to (e), and also for specialty areas such as experimental, social, clinical, industrial, and physiological psychology, whether or not the psychology program cuts across administrative lines. The training program shall be an organized sequence of study planned by those responsible for the training program to provide an integrated educational experience leading to the professional practice of psychology. There shall be an identifiable psychology faculty and a psychologist responsible for the program. The training program shall have an identifiable body of students who have been accepted as candidates for a doctorate degree in psychology.(e) The training program shall require each student to fulfill an internship of at least one thousand nine hundred hours of supervised professional experience in the field of psychology satisfactory to the board.[Eff 10/5/70; am 5/26/78; am 5/20/79; am and ren § 16-98-9, 6/25/81; am and comp 12/20/85; comp 11/25/88] (Auth: HRS § 465-6) (Imp: HRS § 465-6)