LICENSING PROCEDURES
1) Since we are a licensed qualifying program in psychoanalysis all residents graduated after 10/05/05 will automatically have their educational requirements accepted by the Department of Education.
Potential graduates will need to apply for the license during their last semester, a Limited Permit. Upon graduation, the graduate will need to ask Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute to write an official letter confirming that he/she has graduated and has completed 1,000 hours of clinical experience in training. This letter should be sent with a transcript to NYSED.
The graduate will then receive a Limited Permit (for 2 years) which enables him/her to sit for the State Examination required to become fully licensed. The applicant will be given permission by the NYSED to sit for the exam.
The exam will consist of 2 case studies. An outline will be given to the applicant saying what will be required to complete the case study. The exam will be monitored by Castle Exams and can be taken at one of 10 sites through CompUSA (one will be in Manhattan). The applicant will go to sit for the exam on an assigned day (sites will be available everyday, year around). No papers or notes will be permitted. The applicant will then complete the case study using the assigned outline.
Each case study will need to be done separately. To sit for both exams on the same day might be too much, so we would suggest two separate days for the two case studies. Each case study will then be scored by two members of the Mental Health Practitioners Board. If the applicant does not pass he/she will be given one more chance to revise the exam, again at one of the CompUSA sites.
Each case study will cost the applicant $390, or a total of $780. Once both case studies are scored and accepted the license will be granted. Again the Limited Permit allows the applicant to practice while completing the examination requirement; it is officially for one year but can be renewed for a second year.
2) The Comparative Education division of the Office of Professions (OOP) has stated that "coursework completed at an institute providing training in one or more of the four mental health professions that is acceptable to the Department (Chartered by the Board of Regents) will be accepted for the purposes of determining whether the applicant's total education is substantially equivalent to that required in the Commissioner's Regulations for satisfying the education requirement for licensure as a mental health counselor or marriage and family therapist under the special provisions (grandparenting.)"
Blanton-Peale graduates should contact Jane Roberts, Blanton-Peale Chief Of Operations , Blanton-Peale Institute, 3 West 29th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10001 ( 212/725-7850 ext. 108) concerning transcripts for New York State licensure or transcripts for other academic institutions. The fee for each request is $20.