Nothing in this chapter shall:
(A) Be construed to limit the activities, services, and use of official title on the part of a person in the employ of the federal government insofar as such activities are a part of the duties in his position;
(B) Restrict persons licensed, certified, or registered under any other provision of the Revised Code from practicing those arts and utilizing psychological procedures that are allowed and within the standards and ethics of their profession or within new areas of practice that represent appropriate extensions of their profession, provided they do not hold themselves out to the public by the title of psychologist;
(C) Restrict any person in any capacity from offering services of a psychological nature, provided they neither hold themselves out to the public by the title of psychologist or school psychologist nor utilize psychological procedures that the state board of psychology judges by uniform rule in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to be a serious hazard to mental health and to require professional expertise in psychology;
(D) Be construed as restricting the use of the term "social psychologist" by any person who has an earned doctoral degree in social psychology or in sociology with a social psychology major, from a sociology or social psychology department of an educational institution accredited or recognized by national or regional accrediting agencies as maintaining satisfactory standards, and who has filed with the state board of psychology the facts demonstrating his possession of such a degree.
HISTORY: 134 v S 176. Eff 9-22-72.
Cross-References to Related Sections
Exceptions from licensing requirements, RC § 4732.22.
Psychological procedures excluded from procedures authorized by occupational therapy license, RC § 4755.12.
Relationship between licensed counselor, social worker and unlicensed practice of psychology, RC § 4757.42.
Ohio Rules
Injunctions, CivR 65.
Ohio Adminstrative Code
Psychological procedures which create a serious hazard to mental health and require professional expertise in psychology. OAC ch. 4732-5.
Research Aids
Exemption from statutory requirements:
O-Jur3d: Phys & S § 73
Am-Jur2d: Phys & S § 63 et seq
CASE NOTES AND OAG
Analysis
Compliance with administrative provisions.
Psychological tests or evaluations.
Compliance with administrative provisions
A psychologist violates RC § 4732.17 where he enters into a relationship with a person who has applied for a counselor's license, but does not comply with the applicable administrative provisions: Steckler v. Ohio State Bd. of Psychology, 83 Ohio App. 3d 33, 613 N.E.2d 1070 (1992).
Psychological tests or evaluations
A licensed professional counselor or a licensed professional clinical counselor who is authorized pursuant to RC Chapter 4757. to administer tests or evaluations in his counseling practice may use the term "psychological" to describe or refer to tests or evaluations that pertain to mental functioning or mental status. The relevant inquiry is whether a counselor's use of psychological tests or evaluations is allowed by and within the standards and ethics of the counseling profession or within new areas of counseling practice that represent appropriate extensions of the counseling profession: OAG No. 96-029 (1996).