Prescriptive Authority for Clinical Psychologists

(a)A clinical psychologist may be authorized to administer, prescribe, and dispense licensed drugs or class of drugs, within their education, training, and competence as determined by the Board. Ordering laboratory tests for purposes of diagnosis and monitoring therapeutic levels of prescribed medication is included within the scope of practice of clinical psychology.

(b)To qualify for prescriptive authority, a clinical psychologist must have all of the following: CH. 12 MEDICAL PRACTICES - PART I

(1)completion of a program of education in an organized program of intensive didactic instruction, consisting of a minimum of three hundred

(300)contact hours defined by the Guam Board of Allied Health Examiners, consisting of the following core areas of instruction: neuroscience, pharmacology, psychopharmacology, physiology, pathophysiology, appropriate and relevant physical and laboratory assessment, and clinical pharmacotherapeutics;

(2)having obtained supervised and relevant clinical experience, consisting of treatment of a minimum of one hundred

(100)patients, sufficient to attain competency in the treatment of a diverse population;

(3)proof of successfully passing the Psychopharmacology Examination for Psychologists

(PEP)administered by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB);

(4)a current Federal Drug Enforcement Administration

(DEA)certification; and

(5)a current Guam Controlled Substance Registration

(CSR)from the Department of Public Health and Social Services.

(c)A licensed clinical psychologist shall not prescribe any drug or class of drugs that the clinical psychologist is not competent to prescribe as determined by the Board, and may not prescribe any drugs that are not routinely administered within the clinical psychologist’s scope of practice.

(d)A clinical psychologist’s prescriptive authority shall be automatically revoked for an invalid or revoked Guam or Federal DEA registration, and may be revoked for any violation of this Article or applicable rules and regulations as determined by the Board of Allied Health Examiners.

(e)Prescriptive authority shall be renewed at the time of licensure renewal. The Board shall determine minimum continuing education requirements for the renewal of a clinical psychologist’s prescriptive authority by rule.