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Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities Psychologist

Psychologist · Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities · taxonomy 103TM1800X

998
Registered nationally
0.05%
Share of this field
46
States with providers

What this licence covers

Psychologists hold a doctoral degree (PhD, PsyD or EdD) and are licensed by a state board. They provide talk therapy and are the only non-physician group generally licensed to administer and interpret psychological testing, such as assessments for ADHD, learning disorders or personality. In most states they cannot prescribe medication.

The formal definition

Definition to come...

Source: NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set. This is the definition used for billing and registration, which is why it reads the way it does.

Many also hold another licence

different training route, same person

These are registrations where the same person also holds a licence of a genuinely different kind — not the same qualification recorded twice. It is worth knowing because it widens what someone can work with: a counsellor who is also a social worker brings a different second toolkit than one who is also a behaviour analyst.

Counselor
228
22.8%
Clinical Neuropsychologist
173
17.3%
Behavior Analyst
153
15.3%
Social Worker
40
4.0%
Marriage & Family Therapist
33
3.3%
Occupational Therapist
6
0.6%

Counted from every taxonomy code on a registration, not just the primary one. A provider can appear under more than one row.

By state

159
15.9%
97
9.7%
74
7.4%
69
6.9%
61
6.1%
56
5.6%
50
5.0%
45
4.5%
29
2.9%
28
2.8%
27
2.7%
26
2.6%
25
2.5%
20
2.0%
19
1.9%
18
1.8%
18
1.8%
18
1.8%
15
1.5%
15
1.5%
13
1.3%
11
1.1%
11
1.1%
8
0.8%
7
0.7%

Related licence types

also under Psychologist