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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please consider responding to our counterpart agency in Texas to support their exploration of an alternative exam pathway to licensure for psychologists.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:#FAECF8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Texas Legislature has directed the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council to explore the possibility of creating a new, nationally-available
licensure examination for the practice of psychology. If created, such an examination would offer an additional pathway to licensure, allowing candidates to choose between the new exam and the current examination, the Examination for Professional Practice
in Psychology (EPPP).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:#FAECF8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">In its exploration of a potential new exam, the Council has created a survey to invite feedback and input from the broader U.S. and
Canadian psychology community. We recognize the impacts of a licensure exam stretches beyond the regulatory licensing boards to the clinical programs and students preparing for the exam, as well as the general psychology workforce that will supervise and work
alongside newly licensed psychologists. Accordingly, we invite you to both participate in the survey and to share this link widely with your colleagues and psychological organizations.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:#FAECF8"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V359RT8">https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/V359RT8</a> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="background:#FAECF8"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">This survey is designed to solicit input about the benefits and risks of creating a new licensure exam, as well as feedback about
the potential content, structure, and delivery of such an exam. It also invites you to indicate if you would like to participate in the future toward the development of a new exam. The survey will remain open until through November 2025. Please direct any
questions to <a href="mailto:examproject@bhec.texas.gov"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">examproject@bhec.texas.gov</span></a>.
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<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">You are receiving this message because you are a Board licensee, applicant, or temporary practitioner. <u>This listserv does not allow replies.</u></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">OBOP Staff</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">3218 Pringle Road SE, Suite 130</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Salem, OR 97302-6309</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:green">Data Classification: Level 1, Published</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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