Kan. Admin. Regs. § 102-4-7a - Postgraduate supervised professional work experience requirement
In order to be approved by the board for licensure as a clinical psychotherapist, the applicant's postgraduate supervised professional experience of master's level psychology shall meet all of the following requirements:
(a) One hour of clinical supervision shall be
provided throughout the entirety of the postgraduate supervised professional
experience for each 15 hours of direct client contact. Unless extenuating
circumstances are approved by the board, all supervision shall be conducted
face-to-face either in person or, if confidentiality is technologically protected,
by synchronous videoconferencing specified as follows:
(1) At least 50 hours of individual supervision
occurring with the supervisor and supervisee;
(2) up to 50 hours of group supervision with one
supervisor and no more than six supervisees; and
(3) meet for at least one hour at least twice per
month, at least one of which shall be individual supervision.
(b) The clinical supervisor of a person attaining
the postgraduate supervised professional experience required for licensure as a
clinical psychotherapist, at the time of providing supervision, shall meet one of
the following requirements:
(1) The clinical
supervisor shall be a person licensed as a psychologist.
(2) The clinical supervisor shall be a person who
is currently licensed in Kansas as a clinical psychotherapist and, beginning July 1,
2003, who has practiced as a clinical psychotherapist for two years beyond the
supervisor's licensure date.
(3) The
clinical supervisor shall be a person with qualifications substantially equivalent
to the requirements for licensure in Kansas as a clinical psychotherapist with at
least two years of experience in the practice of master's level psychology beyond
the date of the supervisor's registration, certification, or licensure that is
acceptable to the board.
(c)
In addition to the requirements of subsection (b), each clinical supervisor shall
meet these requirements:
(1) Have professional
authority over and responsibility for the supervisee's clinical functioning in the
practice of master's level psychology;
(2) not have a dual relationship with the
supervisee;
(3) not be under any
sanction from a disciplinary proceeding, unless the board waives this prohibition
for good cause shown by the proposed supervisor;
(4) have knowledge of and experience with the
supervisee's client population;
(5) have
knowledge of and experience with the methods of practice that the supervisee
employs;
(6) have an understanding of
the organization and the administrative policies and procedure of the supervisee's
practice setting; and
(7) be a member of
the practice setting staff or meet the requirements of subsection (d).
(d) If a qualified clinical supervisor
is not available from among staff in the supervisee's practice setting, the
supervisee may secure an otherwise qualified clinical supervisor outside the
practice setting if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The supervisor has a sound understanding of
the practice setting's mission, policies, and procedures.
(2) The extent of the supervisor's responsibility
for the supervisee is clearly defined in terms of client cases to be supervised,
role in personnel evaluation within the practice setting, and other aspects of the
clinical supervision training plan.
(3)
The responsibility for payment for supervision is clearly defined.
(4) If the supervisee pays the supervisor directly
for the supervision, the supervisor maintains responsibility to the client and to
the practice setting.
(e)
Each clinical supervisor shall perform the following duties:
(1) Provide oversight, guidance, and direction of
the supervisee's clinical practice of master's level psychology by assessing and
evaluating the supervisee's performance;
(2) conduct supervision as a process distinct from
personal therapy, didactic instruction, or marriage and family therapy
consultation;
(3) provide documentation
of supervisory qualifications to the supervisee;
(4) periodically evaluate the supervisee's
clinical functioning;
(5) provide
supervision in accordance with the clinical supervision training plan;
(6) maintain documentation of supervision in
accordance with the clinical supervision training plan;
(7) provide the documentation required by the
board when a supervisee completes the postgraduate supervised professional
experience. The supervisor shall submit this documentation on a board-approved form
and in a manner that will enable the board to evaluate the extent and quality of the
supervisee's professional experience and assign credit for that
experience;
(8) provide a level of
supervision that is commensurate with the education, training, experience, and
ability of both the supervisor and the supervisee; and
(9) ensure that each client knows that the
supervisee is practicing master's level psychology under supervision.
(f) Each supervisor and supervisee
shall develop and cosign a written clinical supervision training plan on forms
provided by the board at the beginning of the supervisory relationship. The
supervisee shall submit this plan to the board and shall receive board approval of
the plan before any supervised professional experience hours can begin to accrue.
This plan shall clearly define and delineate the following items:
(1) The supervisory context;
(2) a summary of the anticipated types of clients
and the services to be provided;
(3) the
format and schedule of supervision;
(4)
a plan for documenting the following information:
(A) The date of each supervisory
meeting;
(B) the length of each
supervisory meeting;
(C) a designation
of each supervisory meeting as an individual or group meeting;
(D) a designation of each supervisory meeting as
conducted in the same physical space or otherwise, in the case of emergency;
and
(E) an evaluation of the
supervisee's progress under clinical supervision;
(5) a plan to notify clients of the following
information:
(A) The fact that the supervisee is
practicing master's level psychology under supervision;
(B) the limits of client confidentiality within
the supervisory process; and
(C) the
name, address, and telephone number of the clinical supervisor;
(6) the date on which the parties entered into the
clinical supervision training plan and the time frame that the plan is intended to
encompass;
(7) an agreement to amend or
renegotiate the terms of the clinical supervision training plan, if warranted,
including written notification of these changes to the board office as provided in
subsection (h);
(8) the supervisee's
informed consent for the supervisor to discuss supervision or performance issues
with the supervisee's clients, the supervisee's other clinical or employment
supervisors, the board, or any other individual or entity to which either the
supervisee or the supervisor is professionally accountable; and
(9) a statement signed by each supervisor and
supervisee acknowledging that each person has read and agrees to the postgraduate
supervised professional experience requirements specified in this
regulation.
(g) Supervised
practicum hours completed in a doctoral program of study that is primarily
psychological in content may be approved by the board toward the postgraduate
supervised professional experience requirements for licensure as a clinical
psychotherapist if the applicant meets both of the following conditions:
(1) The applicant received a master's degree in
psychology or clinical psychology and met the coursework, program, and college or
university requirements in
K.A.R.
102-4-3a before completing the doctoral practicum
hours.
(2) The applicant's
doctoral-level practicum fully met the requirements in subsections (a), (b), (c),
and (e).
(h) All changes to
the clinical supervision training plan shall be submitted by the supervisee to the
board for its approval. The changes shall be submitted no more than 45 days after
the date on which the changes took effect. If the supervisee fails to submit the
changes to the board within that 45-day period, no supervised hours of practice
shall be accrued or credited for any practice, beginning on the date the changes
took effect through the date on which the changes to the plan are approved by the
board.
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