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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2895.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2895.5
As provided in subdivision (d) of Section 2895, the Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians shall collect an additional five dollar ($5) assessment at the time of the biennial licensure renewal. This amount shall be credited to the Vocational Nurses Education Fund
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 29.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 29.5
In addition to other qualifications for licensure prescribed by the various acts of boards under the department, applicants for licensure and licensees renewing their licenses shall also comply with Section 17520 of the Family Code.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2900
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2900
The Legislature finds and declares that practice of psychology in California affects the public health, safety, and welfare and is to be subject to regulation and control in the public interest to protect the public from the unauthorized and unqualified practice of psychology and
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2901
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2901
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Psychology Licensing Law.”
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2902
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2902
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Licensed psychologist” means an individual to whom a license has been issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, which license is in force and has not been suspended or revoked. (b) “Client” means a patie
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2903
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2903
(a) No person may engage in the practice of psychology, or represent themselves to be a psychologist, without a license granted under this chapter, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. The practice of psychology is defined as rendering or offering to render to individual
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2903.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2903.1
A psychologist licensed under this chapter may use biofeedback instruments which do not pierce or cut the skin to measure physical and mental functioning.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2904
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2904
The practice of psychology shall not include prescribing drugs, performing surgery or administering electroconvulsive therapy.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2904.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2904.5
A psychologist licensed under this chapter is a licentiate for purposes of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 805, and thus is a health care provider subject to the provisions of Section 2290.5.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2905
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2905
The practice of psychology shall be as defined as in Section 2903, any existing statute in the State of California to the contrary notwithstanding.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2907
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2907
Corporations shall have no professional rights, privileges, or powers, and shall not be permitted to practice psychology, nor shall the liability of any licensed psychologist be limited by a corporation.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2907.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2907.5
Nothing in Section 2907 shall be deemed to apply to the acts of a psychological corporation practicing pursuant to the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, as contained in Part 4 (commencing with Section 13400) of Division 3 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code and Article 9
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2908
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2908
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent qualified members of other recognized professional groups licensed to practice in the State of California, such as, but not limited to, physicians and surgeons, clinical social workers, educational psychologists, marriage and
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2910
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2910
(a) This chapter shall not be construed to restrict persons who are employed in positions as psychologists or registered psychological associates of accredited or approved academic institutions, public schools, or governmental agencies from practicing psychology or using the offi
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2911
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2911
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as restricting the activities and services of a graduate student or psychology intern enrolled in a doctoral program leading to one of the degrees listed in subdivision (b) of Section 2914 or a trainee in a post-doctoral placement approv
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2912
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2912
(a) Notwithstanding Section 2903, a person who holds a license in another jurisdiction of the United States or in Canada as a psychologist may provide psychological services in this state for a period not to exceed 30 consecutive days in any calendar year, if all of the following
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2913
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2913
A person other than a licensed psychologist may perform psychological functions in preparation for licensure as a psychologist only if all of the following conditions are met: (a) The person is registered with the board as a “registered psychological associate.” This registration
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914
(a) An applicant for licensure as a psychologist shall not be subject to denial of licensure under Division 1.5 (commencing with Section 475). (b) (1) On and after January 1, 2020, an applicant for licensure as a psychologist shall possess an earned doctoral degree in any of the
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.1
The board shall encourage every licensed psychologist to take continuing professional development in geriatric pharmacology.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.2
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.2
The board shall encourage licensed psychologists to take continuing professional development in psychopharmacology and biological basis of behavior.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.3
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.3
(a) The board shall encourage institutions that offer a doctorate degree program in psychology to include in their biobehavioral curriculum, education and training in psychopharmacology and related topics including pharmacology and clinical pharmacology. (b) The board shall devel
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.4
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.4
In determining its continuing professional development, the board shall consider including a course in menopausal mental health.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.5
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2914.5
In determining its continuing professional development, the board shall consider including a course in maternal mental health.
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2915
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2915
(a) Except as provided in this section, the board shall issue a renewal license only to a licensed psychologist who has completed 36 hours of approved continuing professional development in the preceding two years. (b) A licensed psychologist who renews or applies to reinstate th
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Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2915.1
Business and Professions Code - BPC - BPC § 2915.1
(a) Any person applying for a license as a psychologist or registration as research psychoanalyst shall, in addition to any other requirements, show by evidence satisfactory to the board that they have completed training in human sexuality as a condition of licensure. The trainin