Board Meeting Agenda

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Board Members
Michael Erickson, PhD, President
Nicole J. Jones, Public Member, Vice-President
Lucille Acquaye-Baddoo, Public Member
Johanna Arias-Bhatia, Public Member
Miguel Gallardo, PsyD
Andrew Harlem, PhD
Jacqueline Horn, PhD
Stephen Phillips, PsyD
Linda Starr, Public Member

Board Staff
Antonette Sorrick, Executive Officer
Jeffrey Thomas, Assistant Executive Officer
Sandra Monterrubio, Enforcement Program Manager
Karen Johnson, Licensing Coordinator
Jonathan Burke, Administrative Coordinator
Norine Marks, DCA Legal Counsel

Thursday – Friday, February 26-27, 2015

The Board plans to webcast this meeting on its website. Webcast availability cannot, however, be guaranteed due to limitations on resources or technical difficulties that may arise. If you wish to participate or to have a guaranteed opportunity to observe, please plan to attend at a physical location. Adjournment, if it is the only item that occurs after a closed session, may not be webcast. A link to the webcast will be available on the Board’s Website at 9:00 a.m. February 26-27, 2015, or you may access it at: https://thedcapage.wordpress.com/webcasts/. Links to agenda items with attachments are available at www.psychology.ca.gov, prior to the meeting date.

Thursday, February 26, 2015

9:30 a.m. – OPEN SESSION

Unless noticed for a specific time, items may be heard at any time during the 2-day period of the Board meeting.

The Board welcomes and encourages public participation in its meetings. The public may take appropriate opportunities to comment on any issue before the Board at the time the item is heard. If public comment is not specifically requested, members of the public should feel free to request an opportunity to comment.

1. Call To Order/Roll Call/Establishment of a Quorum

2. President’s Welcome

3. Public Comment for Items not on the Agenda

4. Approval of Minutes: November 20-21, 2014, Board Meeting

5. Approval of Minutes: January 9, 2015, Board Meeting

6. Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) Task Force Report (Arias-Bhatia) Recommendations to the Board of Psychology Regarding Feedback to the Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Committee for the Sunrise Hearing for ABA Regulation

7. CLOSED SESSION
The Board will meet in closed session pursuant to Government Code Section 11126(c)(3) to discuss and vote on disciplinary matters including stipulations and proposed decisions, and pursuant to Government Code Section 11126(e)(1) to discuss pending litigation (Weiss v. Board of Psychology, Case No. CPF-14-514011)

Return to Open Session

LUNCH BREAK – RECESS FOR COMMITTEE MEETING

COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Committees will meet to discuss those issues that will be addressed by the full Board during the committee report, presented by the committee chairperson.

A quorum of the Board may be present at the Committee meetings, Board members who are not on the Committee may observe, but may not participate or vote. Each committee meeting will begin with voluntary introduction of attendees.

Licensing Committee – (Horn – Chairperson, Phillips, Arias-Bhatia)

a) Application Report (K. Johnson)
b) Examination Report (K. Johnson)
c) Renewal Report (K. Johnson)
d) Continuing Education Report (K. Johnson)
e) Discussion and Consideration of Comments to Association of State and Provincial Psychology Board (ASPPB) Draft Supervision Guidelines (J. Horn)
f) Licensing Action Plan – Proposed Improvements to the Licensing Process – Update (K. Johnson)
g) Public Comment for Items Not on the Agenda
h) Closed Session – The Licensing Committee Will Meet in Closed Session Pursuant to Government Code Section 11126(c)(2) to consider the following:

1. Request from N.P. for an extension of the 30-consecutive month requirement to accrue 1500 hours of post-doctoral supervised professional experience pursuant to section 1387(a) for the California Code of Regulations
2. Request from A.M. for an extension of the 30-consecutive month requirement to accrue 1500 hours of post-doctoral supervised professional experience pursuant to section 1387(a) for the California Code of Regulations
3. Request from J.M. for an extension of the 30-consecutive month requirement to accrue 1500 hours of post-doctoral supervised professional experience pursuant to section 1387(a) for the California Code of Regulations
4. Request from S.M. for an exemption from the Continuing Education requirements

Return to Open Session – Full Board

8. Presentation of Licensing Committee Report and Consideration of Committee Recommendations – Horn

9. Introduction of Licensing Staff (K. Johnson)

Board Recess – Committee Meeting

Policy and Advocacy Committee – (Jones – Chairperson, Erickson, Harlem)

1. Legislation Update and Review; Recommendations to Full Board (Jones)
1. Exempt Settings Legislative Proposal (Business and Professions Code Sections 2909, 2909.5, 2910) (J. Burke)
2. Senate Business, Professions, and Economic Development Proposal Regarding Submission of Supervised Professional Experience (Business and Professions Code Section 2914(g)) (J. Burke)
3. Submission of Supervised Professional Experience Legislative Proposal (Business and Professions Code Section 2914(c)) (J. Burke)
4. Discussion and Consideration of Business and Professions Code Section 2903 -Licensure Requirement; Practice of Psychology; Psychotherapy; Fee (J. Burke)
5. Expiration of License/Birth Date Renewal Legislative Proposal (Business and Professions Code Section 2982) – (J. Burke)
6. SB 128 (Wolk) – End of Life (J. Burke)
7. AB 2198 (Levine) – Suicide Prevention – Update (J. Burke)
2. Update regarding the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (CANRA) and Mandated Reporting – Penal Code Sections 261.5, 288, and 11165.1 (J. Burke)
3. Regulation Update, and Review; Recommendations to Full Board (J. Burke)
1. Title 16, CCR, Section 1397.12 – Uniform Standards Related to Substance Abuse and Disciplinary Guidelines (J. Burke)
2. Title 16, CCR, Sections 1388, 1388.6, 1389, 1392 – Examinations, License Requirements and Waiver of Exemption, Reconsideration of Examinations, Psychologists Fees (J. Burke)
3. Title 16, CCR, Sections 1397.60, 1397.61, 1397.62, 1397.67 – Definitions, Continuing Education Requirements, Continuing Education Exemptions and Exceptions, Renewal after Inactive or Delinquent Status
4. Title 16, CCR, Section 1380.5 – Filing of Addresses (J. Burke)

Return to Open Session – Full Board

10. Overview of Sunset Review Process – Le Ondra Clark, PhD, Chief Consultant, Assembly Committee on Business and Professions)

11. Overview of the Legislative and Regulatory Process – Justin Paddock, Assistant Deputy Director, Legislative and Policy Review Division, Department of Consumer Affairs

12. Presentation of Policy and Advocacy Committee Report; Consideration of Committee Recommendations – Jones

RECESS

Friday, February 27, 2015

9:30 a.m. – FULL BOARD – RECONVENE OPEN SESSION

13. Roll Call and Establishment of Quorum

14. Budget Report (M. Ito)

15. Introduction of Administrative Staff (J. Burke)

16. Enforcement Report (S. Monterrubio)

17. Introduction of Enforcement Staff (S. Monterrubio)

18. Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education --Update on Requirement for Accreditation of Degree-granting Institutions --Joanne Wenzel, Chief, Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education

LUNCH BREAK – BOARD RECESS – COMMITTEE MEETING

19. Outreach and Education Committee (Gallardo – Chairperson, Acquaye-Baddoo, Starr)

1. Strategic Plan Update (M. Gallardo/A. Sorrick)
2. Communications Plan Update (A. Sorrick)
3. Social Media Update (J. Burke)
4. Website Update (J. Burke)
5. Newsletter (A. Sorrick)
6. Outreach Activities Update (A. Sorrick)
7. California Psychological Association Ethics Training Program (J. Linder-Crowe)
8. Review and Consideration of Draft Annual Outreach Campaign Proposal (M. Gallardo)
9. Public Comment for Items not on the Agenda

20. Sunset Review Committee Report (M. Erickson)

21. President’s Report (M. Erickson)

1. Ad Hoc Committee Update
1. Telepsychology Committee
2. Sunset Review Committee
3. ABA Task Force
4. Enforcement Committee
2. Draft Executive Officer Duty Statement
3. 2015 Meeting Calendar and Locations
4. Other Informational Items

22. Presentation of Outreach and Education Committee Report; Consideration of Committee Recommendations) -M. Gallardo

23. Executive Officer’s Report (A. Sorrick)

1. Organization Update
2. CPS Program Analysis Update
3. Other Informational Items

24. Recommendations for Agenda Items for Future Board Meetings

25. Adjournment

All times are approximate and subject to change. The meeting may be canceled or changed without notice. For verification, please check the Board’s Web site at www.psychology.ca.gov, or call (916) 574-7720. Action may be taken on any item on the agenda. Items may be taken out of order, tabled or held over to a subsequent meeting, and items scheduled to be heard on Thursday may be held over to Friday, items scheduled to be heard on Friday may be moved up to Thursday, for convenience, to accommodate speakers, or to maintain a quorum.

Meetings of the Board of Psychology are open to the public except when specifically noticed otherwise in accordance with the Open Meeting Act. The public may take appropriate opportunities to comment on any issue before the Board at the time the item is heard, but the President may, at his discretion, apportion available time among those who wish to speak.

The meeting is accessible to the physically disabled. A person who needs a disability-related accommodation or modification in order to participate in the meeting may make a request by contacting Antonette Sorrick, Executive Officer, at (916) 574-7720 or email bopmail@dca.ca.gov or send a written request addressed to 1625 N. Market Boulevard, Suite N-215, Sacramento, CA 95834. Providing your request at least five (5) business days before the meeting will help ensure availability of the requested accommodation.