Exemptions from licensure requirements are
generally set forth in division (A) of section 4732.22 of the Revised Code. In
addition, exemptions from licensure requirements shall include:
(A) A nonresident temporarily employed in this state to
render psychological services for not more than thirty days a year who
successfully submits a board-prescribed application prior to practicing in Ohio
and who, in the opinion of the board, meets the standards for admission to the
psychology examination as described in rule 4732-9-01 of the Administrative
Code and who holds whatever license or certificate, if any, is required for
such practice in his/her home state or home country; however, a nonresident
providing the board with evidence from the "Association of State and
Provincial Psychology Boards" that he/she holds an active
inter-jurisdictional practice certificate (IPC) shall be deemed to qualify for
permission to practice under this paragraph; nonresidents shall have
authorization to practice for not more than thirty days yearly upon written
authorization granting the nonresident permission to practice;
(B) Any student or other person working under the
supervision of a psychologist or school psychologist licensed under this
chapter, while engaging in training experiences or carrying out specific tasks,
under the license holder's supervision, as an extension of the license
holder's legal and ethical authority as specified under this chapter. The
person working under the license holder's supervision shall not represent
oneself to the public as a psychologist or school psychologist, and supervised
persons shall be ascribed an appropriate title by the supervisor from those
listed in paragraphs (E), (F), (G), (H), (I) and (J) of rule 4732-13-03 of the
Administrative Code;
(C) A student in an accredited educational institution,
while carrying out activities that are part of the prescribed course of study,
provided such activities are supervised by a professional person who is
qualified to perform such activities and is licensed under this chapter or is a
qualified supervisor pursuant to rules of the board;
(D) Recognized religious officials, including ministers,
priests, rabbis, imams, Christian science practitioners, and other persons
recognized by the board, conducting counseling when the counseling activities
are within the scope of the performance of their regular duties and are
performed under the auspices or sponsorship of an established and legally
cognizable religious denomination or sect, as defined in current federal tax
regulations, and when the religious official does not refer to the
official's self as a psychologist and remains accountable to the
established authority of the religious denomination or sect;
(E) A person in the employ of the federal government,
including use of an official title, insofar as such activities are a part of
the duties in his/her position;
(F) A person licensed, certified, or registered under a
provision of the Revised Code other than in Chapter 4732. of the Revised Code,
providing he/she is practicing those arts and utilizing psychological
procedures that are allowed and within the standards and ethics of the other
profession or within new areas of practice that represent appropriate
extensions of that profession and providing he/she does not hold
himself/herself out to the public by the title
"psychologist";
(G) Persons using the term "social psychologist,"
"experimental psychologist," "developmental psychologist,"
"research psychologist," "cognitive psychologist," and
other terms used by those in academic and research settings who possess a
doctoral degree in psychology from an educational institution accredited or
recognized by national or regional accrediting agencies as maintaining
satisfactory standards and who do not use such a term in the solicitation or
rendering of professional psychological services;
(H) A person who is teaching, even when dealing with
psychological subject matter, provided it does not otherwise involve the
professional practice of psychology in which student or client welfare is
directly affected;
(I) A person who is conducting research in the field of
psychology, provided it does not otherwise involve the professional practice of
psychology in which student or client welfare is directly
affected.
