Psy.D. Handbook Doctor of Psychology Program in Clinical ...

The Department will review each student's work situation in relation to the practice parameters for
providing psychology services without a doctoral degree, within the context of specific types of
employment, in relation to the student's membership in another qualified profession, and with respect
to the Psychology Licensing Law. Students are required to present their questions related to paid
psychology employment in writing (hard copy, dated, and signed) to the Department Chair. These
questions will be reviewed at a department faculty meeting. The Department will address individual
cases accordingly.
Students are required to clarify with prospective practicum sites if, during their practicum training,
the site will identify the student as an “employee,” either with stipend or unfunded. Students who are
designated as employees by a practicum site must bring this designation to the immediate attention of
the Coordinator. Upon receipt of this knowledge, the department will attempt to clarify roles and
responsibilities of the student’s employment while a practicum trainee, and may request access to
employee handbooks and other documents relevant to supporting the student’s education and training
objectives in the department. The department reviews all contractual situations involving practicum
and predoctoral internship students and may require additional time to process contracts or other
arrangements with outside training facilities, if the outside training facility requests that the student
adhere to guidelines that are outside the scope of the department’s standard Affiliation Agreement.
DEPARTMENT POLICY ON PURCHASING PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS FOR STUDENTS
Situations may arise where students wish to buy test kits directly from test publishers. These
purchases typically require the co-signature of a faculty member, who then takes responsibility for
regulating student usage of the test kit. The Department's policy on this practice is to refrain its
faculty from co-signing on these purchases in order to minimize risks to the student, the faculty, the
Department, the University, and the public resulting from the potential misuse of testing material
outside the scope of the student's program of study.
DEPARTMENT POLICY ON LENDING TEST MATERIAL TO FIELD SITE
SUPERVISORS
Situations may arise where assessment field site supervisors would like to borrow psychological
testing material from the Department. The Department will loan out tests to its field site supervisors
as available and needed in the service of promoting the student's practicum experience and training
under the direct supervision of a licensed psychologist. The practicum student is asked to have the
practicum supervisor call Coordinator of Predoctoral Internship with this request. Coordinator of
Predoctoral Internship will clarify the length of time for which the test will be borrowed, user
qualifications if the test is being requested for use by someone other than the supervisor, and the
manner in which the test will be delivered and returned.
DEPARTMENT POLICY ON LENDING TEST MATERIAL TO STUDENTS
The Department will lend its testing material to students who are taking classes or who are enrolled in
a field experience in which psychological testing is required. Students are responsible for signing-out
and returning test kits within a reasonable time frame. All tests must be returned by the designated
due date or by the completion of the course to the department secretary (phone extension 3509)
during the secretary’s office hours, unless otherwise approved by the Manager of the Testing Library,
who works with the Department Secretary and Department Chair. The Manager of the Testing
Library must receive and approve a student’s written request to keep tests beyond due dates at least
one week prior to the pre-arranged due date. Students completing diagnostic practica who request
permission to keep tests during semester interval (i.e., tests would technically be due on the last night
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