The applicant must have completed three thousand (3,000) hours of supervised professional experience related to the practice of psychology, in no less than two (2) years. Fifteen hundred (1,500) hours of supervised professional experience is equal to one (1) year. The supervised professional experience shall include a pre-doctoral internship program which, at the time the applicant participated, was accredited by the APA Commission on Accreditation, or was a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). Additional supervised professional experience may be accumulated from the following:
(a) Pre-internship. Pre-internship training can include up to one year (1500 hours) of supervised professional experience in practicum, clerkship, or other training activities required in the doctoral degree program. Pre-internship training is an organized, sequential series of supervised professional experiences of increasing complexity, serving to prepare the student for internship and partially meeting requirements for licensure. Training experiences shall follow appropriate academic preparation and shall be overseen by the graduate training program. Such training shall be an extension of the student's academic coursework and not the provision of services that are not within the scope of the education received: - (i) Before beginning a pre-internship training experience, the student, the doctoral program, and the pre-internship program must agree on and document the goals for the training experience, the student's expectations for the training experience, the nature of the pre-internship experience, and how the training experience will be evaluated.
- (ii) Every 20 hours of pre-internship experience must include the following:
- (A) At least 2 hours of regularly scheduled, formal, face-to-face individual supervision that addresses the direct psychological services provided by the student; and
- (B) At least 2 hours of other learning activities such as case conferences, seminars on applied issues, conducting co-therapy with a staff person including discussion of the case, and group supervision.
- (iii) At least sixty percent of the pre-internship experience must be direct client contact providing assessment and intervention services.
- (iv) The pre-internship experience must be supervised by the person(s) responsible for the assigned casework.
- (A) At least seventy-five percent of the supervision must be by a licensed psychologist.
- (B) Up to twenty-five percent of the supervision may be completed by the following:
- (I) A psychiatrist(s) with at least three years experience beyond residency;
- (II) A licensed mental health counselor(s) with at least three years post-license experience;
- (III) A licensed marriage and family therapist(s) with at least five years post-license experience;
- (IV) A licensed clinical social worker(s) with at least three years post-license experience; or
(b) Post-Doctoral. If two (2) years of supervised professional experience has not been completed by the end of the doctoral degree program, then up to 1500 hours of supervised post-doctoral experience can be used to satisfy the total requirement. This experience can be satisfied by completion of: - (i) A post-doctoral training program which, at the time the applicant participated, was accredited by the APA Commission on Accreditation, or was a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC); or
- (ii) Post-doctoral supervised professional experience that meets the following criteria:
- (A) Two hours of supervision for every forty (40) hours of supervised professional experience, one (1) hour of which is individual face-to-face supervision with a psychologist. Other supervision shall be provided by a psychologist or a licensed allied mental health professional.
- (B) The supervisor shall have practiced for a minimum of two (2) years and shall demonstrate adequate training, competence and skill to render competently any psychological services the supervisee undertakes. The Board may evaluate the qualifications of any supervisor and take appropriate action.
- (C) The supervisor shall allow the supervisee to perform only those functions for which the supervisee has training and experience.
- (D) When the post-doctoral work experience occurs in Wyoming, a Supervision Agreement form provided by the board shall be submitted by the supervisor to the Board specifying the nature of the supervision arrangements and the name, address and telephone number of the supervisor and supervisee. Any changes in the agreement must be submitted in writing within ten (10) days to the Board.
- (E) The supervisor shall keep records that will verify the training and evaluation of the supervisee, including the exact nature and number of hours of supervision and the exact nature and number of hours of acceptable post-doctoral supervised professional experience.
- (F) The title "Psychological Resident" may be used only in conjunction with activities and services that are part of supervised training in order to fulfill the experience requirements for licensure.
- (G) The term "Psychologist" may not be used by psychological residents and their names may not appear in advertising.
- (H) The supervisor shall ensure that the Psychological Resident inform clients in writing of the supervised nature of their work and provide the name, address and telephone number of their supervisor.
- (I) The supervisor must co-sign reports and correspondence of a professional nature intended for distribution outside the office or agency, including correspondence with this Board. The holder of a provisional license is exempt from this sub-section.
- (J) With the approval of the supervisor, Psychological Residents may send announcements of their supervised practice, may have business cards, and may bill directly. However, the supervisory relationship must be indicated and the supervisor's name, address and telephone number must appear on all of these documents.
- (K) All applicants shall submit a completed Supervision Verification Form as provided by the Board, signed by the supervisor(s) and sent directly to the Board which attests to the nature and quality of the supervisee's post-doctoral supervised professional experience and the satisfactory completion of that supervised professional experience by the supervisee.
- (L) The Board may limit the number of Psychological Residents that a supervisor may reasonably supervise at any one time.
- (iii) Any individual who obtains the post-doctoral supervised professional experience outside the State of Wyoming must demonstrate that the postdoctoral supervised professional experience was substantially equivalent to the postdoctoral supervised professional experience required in the State of Wyoming.