Sec.20-188-1. Definitions

(a) "Accreditation by the American Psychological Association" shall mean that:

(1) the program held provisional accreditation status or full accreditation status throughout the period of the applicant's enrollment, provided said provisional status subsequently progressed without interruption to full accreditation; or

(2) the program held probationary accreditation status during the applicant's enrollment and, upon termination of said probationary status, subsequently achieved full accreditation.

(b) "Recognized regional accrediting body" shall mean one of the following accrediting bodies: New England Association of Schools and Colleges; Middle States Commission on Higher Education; North Central Association of Colleges and Schools; Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities; Southern Association of Colleges and Schools; and Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

(c) "Accreditation by a recognized regional accrediting body" shall mean that: (1) the institution held accreditation status or candidacy for accreditation throughout the period of the applicant's enrollment, provided said candidacy status subsequently progressed without interruption to full accreditation; or (2) the institution held accreditation status under probation or show-cause order during the applicant's enrollment and, upon termination of said probation or show-cause order, accreditation status was maintained without interruption.

(d) "Acceptable documentation" shall mean published institutional documents contemporaneous with the applicant's enrollment. In the absence of such published documents, "acceptable documentation" may be satisfied by appropriate certifications, based on institutional records, by the institution's Chief Academic officer.

(e) "Acceptable evidence of professional identification" shall mean: member or fellow status in the American Psychological Association; or Diplomate status with the American Board of Professional Psychology; or state psychology licensure or certification; or receipt of the doctoral degree based in part upon a psychological dissertation, or the doctoral degree based an other evidence of proficiency in psychological scholarship from a program primarily psychological in content and conferred by a graduate or professional school that is regionally accredited, or that has achieved such accreditation within five years of the year the doctoral degree was granted, or one of equivalent standing outside the United States.

(f) "Acceptable evidence of applicant coursework" shall mean official transcript records of coursework completed with a passing grade, such records to be supplemented, where necessary to validate course content, with course catalogue descriptions, course outlines or syllabi, and/or student plans of study from official institutional files contemporaneous with the applicant's enrollment.

(g) "Closely related" shall mean related as a spouse, child, grandchild, child's or grandchild's spouse, parent, grandparent, brother, or sister.

(h) "Department" shall mean the Department of Public Health.

(i) "Board" shall mean the Board of Examiners of Psychologists, as established by Connecticut General Statutes, Section 20-186.

(j) "Employ on a full-time basis" shall mean to employ an individual for a minimum of thirty (30) hours per week.

(Effective April 2, 1991; Amended August 17, 2009)