Pursue Neuropsych Board Certification after already having license?

[asukaran]

I am going to get licensed as a psychologist soon but now want to switch to pursuing a neuropsychologist career because I want to focus on doing testing (instead of therapy) with decent income. I am considering to seek paid supervision from a neuropsychologist, but I guess I can only bill under my own license rather than his now. Would that be any problem for me to complete this post-licensure neuropsych "residency"? Does anyone have suggestions on the minimal frequency, number of years, and degree of supervision that will get me qualified for the ABCN board licensure?

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[WisNeuro]

I am going to get licensed as a psychologist soon but now want to switch to pursuing a neuropsychologist career because I want to focus on doing testing (instead of therapy) with decent income. I am considering to seek paid supervision from a neuropsychologist, but I guess I can only bill under my own license rather than his now. Would that be any problem for me to complete this post-licensure neuropsych "residency"? Does anyone have suggestions on the minimal frequency, number of years, and degree of supervision that will get me qualified for the ABCN board licensure?

The postdoc years are much, much, much more than just supervised clinical practice. If you're serious about Board Cert without having a HCG postdoc, you really need to contact ABCN and work out a plan ahead of time about what they will accept considering what your CV has currently.

 

[AcronymAllergy]

The postdoc years are much, much, much more than just supervised clinical practice. If you're serious about Board Cert without having a HCG postdoc, you really need to contact ABCN and work out a plan ahead of time about what they will accept considering what your CV has currently.

Agreed with this. Odds are, an informal postdoc entailing only some amount of supervised clinical practice would not be sufficient to meet certification criteria for ABPP/ABCN (or to make one a neuropsychologist). If there was not sufficient foundational training throughout graduate school and internship, then it's an even bigger (if not impossible) hill to climb.

 

[Sanman]

Is the goal to be a board certified neuropsychologist or an assessment focused psychologist? You have not mentioned specific goal for practice. As others have mentioned, a formal neuropsych post-doc would be difficult. However, there are many niches for non-neuro assessment that exist, autism assessment for example.

 

[PsyDr]

1) You need to read the Houston Conference Guidelines, and the relevant ABPP website. It is concerning that you are not aware of the fundamentals of this area of practice, refer to ABCN as "licensure", and/or have not spent minutes reading the relevant websites of ABPP. You are proposing to change your ENTIRE work life. Thousands of hours per year in that work. You owe yourself the dignity of reading everything you can about the subject, before changing careers.

2) Supervision alone does not meet the requirements for neuropsych board certification. Most notably, the HCG require things like didactics.

3) Think of ABCN as an insular country club who do things by the book. Typically, prospective members are brought to the club by another member. Then the prospect applies. You are a stranger, who is applying for membership in an atypical way, with what sounds like an atypical education. Consider how motivated the rule followers are, to bend the rules.