| Action Summary | The Board intends to specify in section 150 that the standard of practice requiring licensed psychologists to “avoid harming patients or clients, research participants, students and others for whom they provide professional services and minimize harm when it is foreseeable and unavoidable” includes the provision of conversion therapy and to define what conversion therapy is and is not. The goal is to align regulations of the Board with the stated policy and ethics for the profession. |
| Chapters Affected | Only affects this chapter. |
| Executive Branch Review | This action will go through the normal Executive Branch Review process. |
| RIS Project | Yes [005824] |
| New Periodic Review | This action will not be used to conduct a new periodic review. |
| Name / Title: | Jaime Hoyle / Executive Director |
| Address: |
9960 Mayland Drive Suite 300 Henrico, VA 23233 |
| Email Address: | jaime.hoyle@dhp.virginia.gov |
| Phone: | (804)367-4406 FAX: (804)327-4435 TDD: ()- |