Supervised Licensed Social Work Experi

ence PURPOSE: This rule defines supervised licensed social work experience and sets out the supervised experience requirements for licensed clinical social workers and licensed baccalaureate social workers. (1) Supervision of the applicant for licensure shall not begin, and will only be acceptable to the committee, after the issuance of the license as a master social worker or licensed baccalaureate social worker. (2) The supervisor must have met the requirements for an acceptable supervisor, as set out in 20 CSR 2263-2.031, at the time the supervision was performed. (3) Acceptable supervised licensed social work experience has the following characteristics: (A) Allowable supervision— 1. A minimum of two (2) hours every two (2) weeks of individual face-to-face supervision by the supervisor; 2. However, individual face-to-face supervision may be consolidated for up to four (4) weeks for a total of four (4) hours of individual face-to-face supervision per four- (4-) week period. These hours shall be included in the total number of supervised hours required in subsection (3)(B) and exclude clinical work, unless the clinical work is completed under parttime employment. Fifty percent (50%) of supervision per month may be group supervision; 3. For the purpose of this rule, group supervision may consist of at least two (2) and no more than six (6) supervisees; and 4. The use of electronic communications is acceptable for meeting supervision requirements of this rule only if the ethical standards for confidentiality are maintained and communication is verbally and visually interactive between the supervisor and the supervisee; (B) The minimum acceptable supervised experience shall be three thousand (3,000) hours obtained in no less than twenty-four (24) and no more than forty-eight (48) consecutive calendar months. The forty-eight- (48-) month time frame may include periods of unemployment and/or part-time employment or leave deemed appropriate by the committee. The total time frame is calculated in consecutive months, not the employment within that period. Supervised experience toward the three thousand (3,000) required hours which is not within a consecutive forty-eight- (48-) month period is not eligible for submission toward licensure; and (C) The practice of social work by the supervisee shall be performed under the oversight, guidance, control, and full professional responsibility of the supervisor approved by the committee, in compliance with all laws and regulations relating to the practice of social work. In the event the applicant fails to pre-approve their supervisor(s), or are applying through reciprocity, the committee may review the supervision for compliance and consideration for licensure. (4) The committee may, in its discretion, deny supervision hours not completed in compliance with this regulation, 20 CSR 2263-2.031, and 20 CSR 2263-2.032. (5) An application for licensure must be submitted pursuant to the rules promulgated by the committee upon completion of the supervised social work experience. All applicants working clinically for licensure must remain under approved supervision until the license is approved by the committee. (6) Supervisees seeking an exception in the acceptance of the supervised experience requirements shall submit a written request to the committee, which will be considered at the discretion of the committee on a case-by-case basis. AUTHORITY: sections 337.600, 337.612, 337.615, 337.627, 337.662, and 337.665, RSMo Supp. 2025.* This rule originally filed as 4 CSR 263-2.030. Original rule filed Sept. 18, 1990, effective Feb. 14, 1991. Amended: Filed Dec. 2, 1991, effective May 14, 1992. Amended: Filed March 1, 1994, effective Aug. 28, 1994. Amended: Filed Jan. 11, 1995, effective June 30, 1995. Rescinded: Filed Dec. 30, 1998, effective July 30, 1999. Readopted: Filed Jan. 20, 1999, effective July 30, 1999. Amended: Filed Oct. 30, 2002, effective June 30, 2003. Moved to 20 CSR 2263-2.030, effective Aug. 28, 2006. Amended: Filed Aug. 27, 2009, effective April 30, 2010. Amended: Filed Feb. 22, 2019, effective Sept. 30, 2019. Amended: Filed Jan. 24, 2022, effective Aug. 30, 2022. Amended: Filed June 29, 2023, effective Dec. 30, 2023. Amended: Filed Jan. 22, 2026, effective July 30, 2026. *Original authority: 337.600, RSMo 1989, amended 1995, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2025; 337.612, RSMo 1989, amended 1997, 2001, 2007, 2018; 337.615, RSMo 1989, amended 1995, 1997, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2025; 337.627, RSMo 1989, amended 1993, 1995, 1997, 2007, 2018, 2025; 337.662, RSMo 2001, 2018; and 337.665, RSMo 2001, amended 2004, 2007, 2018, 2020, 2023.