Oregon Health Authority
Public Health Division - Chapter 333
Division 333
PSILOCYBIN
333-333-3070
Psilocybin Facilitator Practicum Requirements
(1) Programs shall require students to complete practicum training that provides an opportunity to observe the facilitation of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
(2) If a practicum site is available, practicum training shall include placement at a practicum site where students can observe psilocybin services under the supervision of a practicum site supervisor.
(3) Any licensed Service Center can function as practicum site. If a training program uses a Service Center as a practicum site to satisfy the requirements of this rule, the training program shall notify the Oregon Health Authority (Authority) in a form and manner prescribed by the Authority.
(4) A practicum site must obtain written client consent prior to allowing a client to be observed by practicum students and prior to sharing any client information with practicum students or a training program.
(5) The practicum site supervisor is responsible for developing students’ practicum skills and evaluating students’ practicum performance, related to psilocybin services.
(6) If a practicum site is not reasonably available or accessible to students, a training program may identify alternative practicum in its application for approval that reasonably approximates training at a practicum site. For alternative practicum, the lead educator or program director is responsible for developing students’ alternative practicum skills and evaluating students’ alternative practicum performance, focusing on services with clients.
(7) Alternative practicum may include but is not limited to observation of taped facilitation sessions that were recorded with participants’ consent, participating in psychedelic peer support organization, role playing, and experience with altered states of consciousness that are not drug-induced, for example breath work, meditation or spiritual journeys.
(8) Students shall complete a minimum of 40 hours of practicum training, including at least 30 hours of direct practice in which students directly observe clients receiving psilocybin services or directly participate in alternative practicum activity as described in section (7), and at least 10 hours of consultation relating to the student’s direct practice
(9) All practicum training, including direct practice, consultation and alternative practicum, must be conducted in person.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 475A.235 & ORS 475A.380
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 475A.235 & ORS 475A.380
History:
PH 58-2023, amend filed 12/21/2023, effective 01/01/2024
PH 74-2022, adopt filed 05/19/2022, effective 05/20/2022