USA Licensing Criteria

		The Milwaukee Symposium (1997). These are the criteria used by NACES, and other US credential evaluating agencies, to determine the US equivalency of a non-US qualification. This simple arithmetical method starts counting from the wrong place, and then counts the wrong things from thereon. It begins with an inflated view of the level reached by the typical graduate of a four-year US High School program and proceeds on the assumption that the US HS system caters to a less select population than "other countries". The original TIMSS report data do not support this contention. The USA was not shown to have significantly greater measures of educational spread than higher scoring nations at any stage of primary or secondary schooling.
		The ASPPB Guidelines for defining a doctoral degree in psychology (Education and Credentialing in Psychology, 1977). These rules haven't changed in nearly 30 years. They continue to be applied to non-American systems of education - and they still don't fit. There is a mismatch between degree name and program content. What the ASPPB actually requires is a degree called a doctorate that contains the content of most professionally accredited non-US undergraduate degrees which include a pre-or post graduation internship. The better the quality of the nation’s educational program the more unlikely it is to be permitted to offer a doctoral degree at this low level. Unfortunately the ambiguous term "doctoral" is included in the psychology licensing legislation of all of the 61 US States and Provinces. In some cases (California, for example) the term "doctoral" is defined as a determination of the NACES group of assessors.
		Approved North American Doctoral Programs in Psychology: National Register of Health Professionals in Psychology (NRHPP). These programs have the content of non-American undergraduate degrees. The international programs which NACES members specify as "equivalent to a North American doctorate" require that the content of the American degrees be completed before the student is admitted to candidature. The National Register then assesses them as inadequate due to the paucity of their subject matter! A truly Catch 22 situation.
		NRHPP Approved US and Canadian Doctoral Programs in Psychology: Details listed by State or Province.
		Understanding the levels of approval and accreditation of doctoral programs in clinical, counseling, educational and school psychology. By Doris Penman. A Guest Article of the California Board of Psychology, 2003
		50 States and U.S. Territories: Licensure, Regulations, Associations and Boards. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.
		California Board of Psychology. The legislation which this board is required to uphold states that a foreign degree in psychology must be assessed for equivalence by the NACES group of assessors.
		California Board of Psychology. New legislation which requires that a candidate must have a degree called a doctorate which must be assessed for equivalence to US doctorates by a member of the NACES group.
		Californian Legislation pertaining to the licensing of psychologists. A more expanded version of the information linked to the cell above. Discrimination against qualifications earned in educationally advanced countries is written into the State Legislation; non-psychologists are given the sole right to be the arbitrators of professional equivalence.
		New York State- Article 153.
		New Mexico: Regulations: Licensing of Psychologists and Psychologist Associates
		State Board of Tennessee: Psychological Assistants

		American Psychological Association history of psychology licensing and accreditation
		US State and Province reciprocal recognition of psychology credentials. The problems which North Americans face in moving from one State to another is very similar to the problems which internationally-trained psychologists have. Theoretically a solution to this problem should also be a solution to the global problem. Unfortunately, US parochial beliefs of superiority in credentialing practices is far exceeded by US national parochialism of this nature.
		Is moving in your future? prepared by Stephen Seaman
		ASPPB - Introduction. The role of the ASPPB is to facilitate the movement of appropriately-trained and experienced psychologists across the States and Provinces of the USA. Part of the process is an examination. One way to test the comparability of non-American training programs for professional psychologists against those which have been accredited by the ASPPB would be to administer the EPPB (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) to a representative selection of applicants for psychology licensure in other English-speaking countries. Items with an American cultural bias would have to be excluded for all candidates, regardless of nationality.

		Guidelines for US Industrial and Organizational Psychologists. The job description of an organizational psychologist typically requires them to work in a number of States and Provinces. The suggestion inter-State licensing criteria are, once again, similar to the standards set for an approved undergraduate degree in psychology in most developed nations other than North America.
		Texas Legislation pertaining to the Licensing of Foreign Psychologists. The Registrar of the University of Texas at Austin is the non-psychologist who decides whether a foreign psychology degree is equivalent to a US doctorate in psychology.