Newfoundland Board of Examiners in Psychology
P.O. Box 5666, Station C, St. John's, NF A1C 5W8
May 2000
The attached Candidate Information Sheet (CIS) is the same form that the Board will use to organize your application. This form, together with the appended guidelines and schedules, should help you to determine whether it is to your advantage to pursue registration as a psychologist in this province. In reviewing the enclosed materials, please note that the Psychologists Act requires that registrants possess a masters or doctoral degree in psychology acceptable to the Board or their equivalent in content and training. Without such a credential, the Board cannot register the applicant. Please ask the Registrar for further information with respect to the acceptability of your masters or doctoral degree(s). A list of guidelines for the acceptability of degrees is available if requested. As one example, the M.Ed. Degree in Educational Foundations from UNB is not considered a degree in psychology by the Board.
Present Board policy is to prorate courses which earn partial credit (e.g., in the MUN Faculty of Education, a 2 unit course will be considered as only two thirds of a full course as defined on the CIS).
All applicants should be aware that the Board requires that all provisionally registered psychologists attain a satisfactory score of seventy percent (70%) on the Examination for the Professional Practice of Psychology (EPPP) before full registration can be granted.
Do not hesitate to telephone (709-579-6313), fax (same number, please follow the recorded directions to engage the fax if you are sending from an older-model manual fax which does not send outgoing fax ID tones), or to write if you have any further questions concerning this information.
John C. Garland, Ph.D.
Registrar
NBEP
(NOTE: The following is for information only, board copy will be completed by registrar)
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Candidate Information Sheet |
| Name: | |
| Degrees: |
| I. | Doctoral degree in psychology acceptable to the Board? | (yes / no / none) | |
| Masters in psychology acceptable to the Board? | (yes / no / none) | ||
| If master's level, 1 year residence documented? | (yes / no) If I.OK, go to III. |
| II. Training in Psychology (re. equivalence in content and training to an acceptable master's or doctoral degree) |
| A. | 1. a. Graduate training complete? | (yes / no) |
| b. Programme meets guidelines? | (yes / no) | |
| 2. a. Undergraduate degree in psychology? | (yes / no) | |
| b. If no, equivalence criteria met? | (yes / no |
| i. 12 courses in Psychology at 2000-level or above (or from Schedule 1) | (yes / no) | |
| ii. 4 laboratory courses in psychology (see Schedule 2) | (yes / no) |
| iii. 2 statistics courses (see Schedule 3) | (yes / no) |
| B. | Theory areas? (See guidelines 2.j.i-iv and Schedule 4) | (yes / no) |
| 2.j.i | 2.j.ii |
| 2.j.iii | 2.j.iv |
| III. | Registration file complete? |
| Application: | (yes / no) | Fee: | (yes / no) |
|
Attestation: |
(yes / no) | References: | (yes / no) |
| Ethics Course | (yes / no) |
Conduct Certificate |
(yes / no) |
| Recommendations: |
Note: 1. Courses above marked with a "*"must be documented as over and above Master's degree requirements.
2. Courses above marked with a *?* must be documented in terms of equivalence to current courses at MUN
Guidelines for the Interpretation of Guideline H:
"Candidates for admission...will normally have completed a four-year
undergraduate degree in psychology or appropriate equivalent study."
In the absence of a four-year degree in psychology, applicants at the
Master's level will document "appropriate
equivalent study" to the satisfaction of the Board by meeting the
following guidelines:
1.Applicants will document a minimum of 12 courses in psychology at the senior undergraduate or graduate level.
a.Included in the list of 12 courses must be at least 4 approved laboratory courses in psychology and 2 approved courses in statistics and research design.
b.There may be included in the total of 12 courses only those graduate courses which are in excess of the minimum degree requirements at that level.
2.Courses designated as "courses in psychology at the senior undergraduate or graduate level," "approved laboratory courses in psychology," and "approved courses in statistics and research design" shall be listed by the Board in terms of a schedule of courses available at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Applicants from other universities will be required to demonstrate equivalence.
3.The coverage of the areas of psychology as specified in Guidelines 2.j.i-iv may be met in the undergraduate programme, the required graduate programme, other graduate level courses taken by the applicant or by an appropriate combination of these programmes.
Schedules of Courses for Meeting Guidelines for the Interpretation of Guideline H:
"Candidates for admission...will normally have completed a four-year undergraduate degree in psychology or appropriate equivalent study."
Note: In the following, all coursework is defined in terms of course offerings at Memorial University. Transcripts from persons with degrees from other institutions will be judged on a case-by-case basis in terms of equivalence to the coursework defined below.
Schedule 1.
12 courses in psychology not including courses taken as part of the applicant's Master's programme.
a. All courses, 2000-level and above, within the Psychology Department including any graduate level courses not counted as part of the applicant's Master's degree.
b. Faculty of Education undergraduate courses as follows:
Ed 2610 Introduction to Child Development
Ed 2900 Introduction to Quantitative Design and Analysis
Ed 3210 Introduction to Guidance Services
Ed 3220 Study of Exceptional Children--Intellectual Differences
Ed 3230 Study of Exceptional Children--Physical, Sensory and Behavioral
Differences
Ed 3250 Adolescent Development
Ed 3255 Child Abuse and the School Age Child
Ed 3260 Human Learning
Ed 3680 Behavior Therapy for Children and Adolescents in Educational
Settings
Ed 3290 Psychological Tests and Measurements
Ed 3615 Introduction to Human Learning
Ed 4240 An Introduction to the Exceptional Learner
Ed 4260 The Nature of Late Adolescence
Ed 4261 Human Learning Theories and Their Application to the Instructional
Process
Ed 4520 Psychoeducational Interventions for Behavior Problems of Children
and Adolescents
Ed 4543 Educational Psychology of Hearing Impairment
Ed 4610 The Nature and Management of Stress
c. All new and old courses from School Counselling and School Psychology provided they are not counted as part of applicant's Master's degree.
d. Selected courses from the Cognition in Education Master's programme (Faculty of Education) as follows:
Ed 6600 Learning and Motivation
Ed 6680 Foundations
Ed 6681 Specialist Research Methods
Ed 6686 Assessment
Ed 6687 Specific Cognitive Disabilities
Ed 6690 Motivation
Ed 6691 Metacognition
Ed 6692 Social Cognition
e. Courses in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Stat 2500 Statistics for Business and Arts Students 1
Stat 2501 Statistics for Business and Arts Students 2
Stat 2510 Statistics for Science Students 1
Stat 2511 Statistics for Science Students 2
Stat 3520 Experimental Design 1
Stat 3521 Regression
Schedule 2.
Four laboratory courses in psychology not taken as part of the applicant's Master's degree programme.
a. Courses in the Psychology Department (a.) with a designated weekly laboratory period except Psy 2900, Psy 2901, and Psy 3900, (b.) all 4000-level courses and (c.) all graduate courses except Psy 6601-6621, 7001-7005 if extra to the Master's degree programme.
b. Courses in the area of Educational Psychology within the Faculty of Education, if extra to the applicant's Master's degree programme, from the following list:
G6150 Individual Counselling
G6200 Processes and Procedures in Group Counselling
G6400 Appraisal of the Individual: Intelligence and Learning
G6600 Advanced Educational Psychology: Human Learning
G6650 Advanced Educational Psychology: Human Development
G6700 Issues in Human Development and Learning
G6725 Educational Applications of Contempor ary Cognitive Psychology
G6855 Neuropsychology
Ed 6707 Assessment for Counsellors
Ed 6708 Group Counselling: Theory and Practice
Ed 6709 Assessment of Intelligence and Learning Skills
Ed 6712 Nature and Assessment of Behavior Disorders in Children and
Adolescents
Ed 6716 Working with Families and Parents
Ed 6751 Principles and Procedures of Psychoeducational Assessment
Ed 6754 The Physiology and Psychology of Reading
Ed 6755 Nature and Assessment of Learning Disabilities
Schedule 3.
2 courses in Statistics not taken as part of the applicant's Masters programme.
a. Courses within the Department of Psychology:
Psy 2900 Design and Analysis 1
Psy 2901 Design and Analysis 2
Psy 3900 Design and Analysis 3
b. Course within the Faculty of Education
Ed 2900 Introduction to Quantitative Design and Analysis
c. Courses within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
Stat 2500 Statistics for Business and Arts Students 1
Stat 2501 Statistics for Business and Arts Students 2
Stat 2510 Statistics for Science Students 1
Stat 2511 Statistics for Science Students 2
Stat 3520 Experimental Design 1
Stat 3521 Regression
Schedule 4.
Graduate or senior undergraduate courses meeting the 4 theory areas referred to in Guidelines 2.j.i-iv. (Note: courses meeting these requirements may be part of the applicant's Master's degree programme.)
a. Courses meeting Guideline 2.j.i: Physiological bases of behavior
i. Psychology Department
Psy 2360 Perception 1
Psy 3360 Perception 2
Psy 2850 Behavioral Neuroscience
Psy 3750 Animal Behavior 1
Psy 4701 Animal Behavior 2
Psy 3800 Physiological Psychology
Psy 4810 Human Neuropsychology
Senior special topics or graduate level courses judged equivalent to above.
ii. Faculty of Education
G6855 Neuropsychology
Ed 6754 Physiology and Psychology of Reading
b. Courses meeting Guideline 2.j.ii: Cognitive-affective bases of behavior
i. Psychology Department
Psy 2250 Learning
Psy 3251 Advanced Learning
Psy 3252 Learning Processes and Drug Effects
Psy 2450 Human Memory
Psy 3450 Human Cognition
Psy 3610 Altered States of Consciousness
Senior special topics or graduate level courses judged equivalent to above.
ii. Faculty of Education
G6725 Educational Applications of Contemporary Cognitive Psychology
G6600 Human Learning
Ed 6713 Educational Applications of Contemporary Cognitive
Psychology
Ed 6600 Learning and Motivation
Ed 6680 Foundations
Ed 6681 Specialist Research Methods
Ed 6686 Assessment
Ed 6687 Specific Cognitive Disabilities
Ed 6690 Motivation
Ed 6691 Metacognition
Ed 6692 Social Cognition
c. Courses meeting Guideline 2.j.iii: Social bases of behavior
i. Psychology Department
Psy 2160 Social Psychology: Group Processes
Psy 3100 Social Psychology: Social Cognition
Psy 3150 Industrial Psychology
Senior special topics or graduate level courses judged equivalent to above.
ii. Faculty of Education
G6200 Processes and Procedures in Group Counselling
Ed 6708 Group Counselling: Theory and Practice
Ed 6716 Working with Families and Parents
d. Courses meeting Guideline 2.j.iv: Individual differences
i. Psychology Department
Psy 2620 The Experimental Study of Personality
Psy 3650 The Experimental study of Abnormal Behavior
Psy 3050 Developmental Psychology 1
Psy 3052 The Psychology of Aging
Senior special topics or graduate level course judged equivalent to above.
ii. Faculty of Education
Ed 2610 Introduction to Child Development
Ed 3220 Study of Exceptional Children--Intellectual Differences
Ed 3230 Study of Exceptional Children--Physical, Sensory and
Behavioral Differences
Ed 3250 Adolescent Development
Ed 4240 An Introduction to the Exceptional Learner
Ed 4260 The Nature of Late Adolescence
Ed 4520 Psychoeducational Interventions for Behavior Problems of
Children and Adolescents
Ed 6701 Issues and Methodologies in Learning and Developmental
Research
Ed 6709 Assessment of Intelligence and Learning Skills
Ed 6712 Nature and Assessment of Behavior Disorders in Children and
Adolescents
Ed 6714 Principles and Practices in Exceptionality
Ed 6755 Nature and Assessment of Learning Disabilities
Ed 6757 Advanced Studies of Developmental Disabilities
G6400 Appraisal of the Individual: Intelligence and Learning
G6650 Advanced Educational Psychology: Human Development