154B.7 - HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDER IN PSYCHOLOGY.
154B.7 HEALTH SERVICE PROVIDER IN PSYCHOLOGY.
A certified health service provider in psychology means a person
licensed to practice psychology who has a doctoral degree in
psychology, or prior to July 1, 1984 was licensed at the doctoral
level with a degree in psychology or its equivalent, or was prior to
January 1, 1984 licensed as a psychologist in this state and prior to
January 1, 1985 receives a doctoral degree equivalent to a doctoral
degree in psychology, and who has at least two years of clinical
experience in a recognized health service setting or meets the
standards of a national register of health service providers in
psychology. A person certified as a health service provider in
psychology shall be deemed qualified to diagnose or evaluate mental
illness and nervous disorders, and to treat mental illnesses and
nervous disorders, excluding those mental illnesses and nervous
disorders which are established as primarily of biological etiology
with the exception of the treatment of the psychological and
behavioral aspects of those mental illnesses and nervous disorders.
Section History: Recent Form
84 Acts, ch 1122, § 2
Referred to in § 135B.7, 232.78, 232.83