Interesting...it's pretty clear
It is also clear, I think, that the requirement is "1,500 hours of postdoctoral supervision within 36 consecutive months"
Actually,
3000 hours of postdoctoral supervision is required under AZ law. Candidates may apply to take the EPPP
after the FIRST 1500 hours-- the assumption is that the candidate will continue in their supervised postdoc until all 3000 hours are achieved and correctly documented.
R4-26-210. Internship or Training Experience.....
6. That time spent fulfilling academic degree requirements such as course work applied to the doctoral degree, practicum, field laboratory, dissertation, or thesis credit is not credited toward the 1,500 hours of professional expe*rience hours required by A.R.S. § 32-2071(D). This rule does not restrict a student from participating in activities designed to fulfill other doctoral degree requirements; however, the Board shall not credit such time toward the hours required by A.R.S. § 32-2071(D); and
7. That to satisfy the first 1,500 hours required by A.R.S. § 32-2071(D), the written statement required under A.R.S. § 32-2071(D)(9) was established by the time the student began training. The Board shall not accept experience or credit for the past activities as a training program or a pre-doctoral internship.
B. Training deadlines. Under A.R.S. § 32-2072(C), an applicant approved to take the national examination before completion of the applicants entire 3,000 hours of supervised training experience shall complete the remaining training required within the following time-frames:
1. 36 consecutive months for an applicant who has only completed the first 1,500 hours of supervised internship training; or
2. 60 consecutive months for an applicant who has completed neither the first 1,500 hours of supervised internship training nor the second 1,500 hours of supervised postdoctoral training.
BBM
http://www.psychboard.az.gov/agency/psychBoardRules.asp
A candidate who has had 2 official applications to take the licensure exam and is declined due to the documentation and conduct of the FIRST 1500 hours of supervised internship, is a
very problematic situation. The Board has signaled twice that they have grave and ongoing questions about the supervised internship hours and documentation-- and a candidate is wise to heed that signal. And it appears that the Melmed situation was not a pre-approved APA internship, so more documentation would be necessary.
1500 hours equates to roughly 9 months of full time work (40 hours/ week; 2080 hours per year.) Which means that a candidate who
continues to have their internship hours from a previous situation several years ago
officially questioned by the Board should seriously re-think their situation. The
quickest and easiest path is to simply obtain a new internship situation that one is certain will meet the requirements set by law, and roughly 9-10 months later, apply for to take the exam, while assuring the Board that you intend to complete the remaining 1500 hours in your current situation.
That Dina was ALSO rebuked by the Board for inflating her credentials and using a clearly disapproved title is cringe-worthy for ANY aspiring professional.
JMO, but I doubt at this point in time that Dina will be able to successfully present documentation and verification to the committee using her previous internship situation at Melmed. It sounds as though her situation there was not full time, as in "consecutive" months-- especially since we know she was taking at least the summer months "off" to vacation in Coronado. The board has documented significant concerns about how that situation was conducted. She is on their "radar" now, and they will be meticulous when evaluating any future applications to take the licensure test.
Anyway, since Dina is potentially still going to pursue the "Parental Disclosure" bill with Senator Barto, Dina will have to be very careful not to discuss or highlight any aspect of her fledgling psych career in the pursuit of legislation. She is a graduate, and that is about all she can say legally about her "career", without being in violation of statute. Unless she is employed somewhere in a supervised internship, that is-- and then she could say that she is actively working toward licensure.
It would be
exquisitely embarrassing to
both her and Senator Barto if Dina continues to publicly spout such phrases as "taking time off from her established professional practice"-- when it will become rapidly apparent to the media that she
neither has a present or past professional practice, and has been twice declined to sit for the psychologist licensure exam. JMO.
