Sections
30 entriesSection 2900Establishes legislative findings only, declaring that psychology practice in California affects public health, safety, and welfare and should be regulated and controlled…Section 2901Defines the chapter’s name as the “Psychology Licensing Law” and allows the chapter to be cited by that title. Establishes that statutory…Section 2902Defines “licensed psychologist,” “client,” “board,” “accredited,” and “approved” for the chapter and defines when a person represents themselves as a psychologist, including…Section 2903Prohibits practicing psychology or representing oneself as a psychologist without a chapter license, except as otherwise provided. Defines psychology practice to include…Section 2903.1Allows a psychologist licensed under the chapter to use biofeedback instruments that measure physical and mental functioning, provided the instruments do not…Section 2904Prohibits the practice of psychology from including prescribing drugs, performing surgery, or administering electroconvulsive therapy. Limits the statutory scope of psychology by…Section 2904.5Defines a psychologist licensed under the chapter as a licentiate for purposes of the referenced paragraph. Establishes that, as a result of…Section 2905Defines the practice of psychology according to the referenced psychology-practice provision despite any existing California statute to the contrary. Establishes that incorporated…Section 2907Prohibits corporations from having professional rights, privileges, or powers and from practicing psychology. Bars a corporation from limiting the liability of any…Section 2907.5Exempts acts of a psychological corporation from the referenced corporate-practice prohibition when the corporation practices under the specified professional-corporation law and article…Section 2908Exempts qualified members of recognized licensed professions, qualifying hypnosis practitioners, clergy, and religious practitioners from chapter restrictions when doing psychological work consistent…Section 2910Exempts qualifying psychologists or psychological associates employed by specified academic, school, or government organizations from chapter restrictions when activities stay within employment…Section 2911Exempts qualifying graduate students, psychology interns in specified doctoral programs, and trainees in approved postdoctoral placements from chapter restrictions on their training…Section 2912Allows a doctoral-level psychologist with a current unrestricted U.S. or Canadian license to serve an established client located in California for up…Section 2913Allows a nonpsychologist to perform psychological functions toward licensure only as an annually renewed registered psychological associate meeting specified graduate-education requirements and…Section 2914Requires psychologist applicants from January 1, 2020 to hold qualifying doctorates, complete two supervised years including one postdegree, pass the exam unless…Section 2914.1Requires the board to encourage every licensed psychologist to take continuing professional development in geriatric pharmacology. Establishes board encouragement of education in…Section 2914.2Requires the board to encourage licensed psychologists to take continuing professional development in psychopharmacology and the biological basis of behavior. Establishes those…Section 2914.3Requires the board to encourage psychology doctoral programs to include psychopharmacology and related education and to develop basic training guidelines for psychologists…Section 2914.4Requires the board, when determining its continuing professional development requirements or content, to consider including a course in menopausal mental health. Establishes…Section 2914.5Requires the board, when determining its continuing professional development requirements or content, to consider including a course in maternal mental health. Establishes…Section 2915Requires a psychologist, except as provided, to complete 36 hours of approved continuing professional development in the preceding two years for renewal,…Section 2915.1Requires applicants for a psychologist license or research-psychoanalyst registration to show satisfactory evidence of human-sexuality training, capped at 50 contact hours, with…Section 2915.2Requires psychologist license and research-psychoanalyst registration applicants and renewals to complete, once, at least seven contact hours of qualifying child-abuse assessment and…Section 2915.3Requires the board to consider continuing-education requirements for psychologist-license and research-psychoanalyst registration renewals, including recognizing chemical dependency and early intervention. Requires consideration,…Section 2915.4Requires beginning January 1, 2020, a psychologist applicant to show at least six hours of suicide-risk assessment and intervention coursework or supervised…Section 2915.5Requires a psychologist applicant to complete at least six contact hours of coursework or applied experience in aging and long-term care, including…Section 2916Establishes that the chapter’s provisions are severable. Provides that if any provision, or its application to a person or circumstance, is held…Section 2918Establishes that confidential relations and communications between a psychologist and client are privileged as provided by the referenced Evidence Code provisions. Defines…Section 2919Requires a licensed psychologist to retain a patient’s health-service records for at least seven years after the patient’s discharge date. Extends the…