Supervision Requirements

(1) The reference in M.G.L. c. 112, § 119(c) to "under the supervision of . . . a licensed psychologist, or one clearly eligible for licensure" shall not be met unless the applicant has been engaged in a formal relationship with the supervisor which provided frequent and regularly scheduled individual or group contacts with the supervisor. (2) Supervision. (a) Shall be a formal relationship between a qualified supervisor, as provided in 251 CMR 3.05(3) and (4), and a trainee engaged in training. (b) Supervision shall occur at least once weekly. (c) Face to face contacts shall consist of contacts between the supervisor and the individual trainee or groups of not more than three such persons. (d) The supervisor shall assess and constructively criticize the work of the trainee. (e) The supervisor shall not be reimbursed by the trainee in whole or part, for the super­ vision provided. (f) The supervisor shall be on the premises where the trainee renders service during the time such service is rendered. (3) Supervision shall be obtained from a licensed psychologist or one clearly eligible for licensure in the opinion of the Board. A psychiatrist who is certified or eligible for certification by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, or a certified member of another psychological specialty approved by the Board, shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be "clearly eligible for licensure" within the meaning of 251 CMR 3.05(3). (4) Supervisors must be regular staff members of, or consultants to, the organization in which the applicant is obtaining required psychological experience. (5) The applicant must provide to the Board, on the required form, a signed statement from the supervisors verifying the applicant's supervised experience and setting forth the nature and extent of supervision. (6) Applicants may not substitute their personal, individual or group psychotherapy, or psychoanalysis for their supervised experience. (7) If the supervision is obtained in the private sector, the applicant shall be employed by the person, group or corporation from whom the supervision is obtained; and the person, group or corporation that employs the applicant shall have assumed both the legal and professional responsibility for all services provided by the applicant.