N.H. Admin. Code § Mhp 304.02 - Practical Experience Requirements for Social Workers

(a) Applicants shall have completed, at a minimum, 2 years of post-masters supervised clinical work experience as follows:

(1) A year of supervised clinical work experience shall be at least 1500 hours to have been completed within not less than 12 months and not more than 24 months, for a total of 3000 hours of work experience;

(2) The supervision shall have included a minimum of one hour per week of individual face-to-face supervision between the supervisor and the applicant for a total of 100 hours; and

(3) The supervision shall be completed between 2 and 4 years from the date the approved supervision began.

(b) Notwithstanding (a) above, an applicant holding a current master licensed alcohol and drug counselor (MLADC) license issued by the board of licensing for alcohol and other drug use professionals may, under RSA 330-A:18, III substitute their experience as an MLADC for up to 1500 hours of the work experience requirement under (a)(1) above and shall be permitted to substitute up to 50 face-to-face supervision hours under (a)(2) above.

(c) Acceptable clinical supervised experience shall require face-to-face contact with a supervisor who is responsible for the clinical development and guidance of the supervisee and is familiar with the supervisee's work and organized setting.

(d) Acceptable clinical supervised experience shall comply with the following:

(1) The supervision shall be from an individual meeting the specification set forth in Mhp 302.01(c);

(2) The supervisor shall be licensed in the state where the supervision takes place;

(3) The supervision shall occur on site where the applicant delivers services, at a mutually convenient and ethically appropriate site, or using a virtual HIPAA compliant platform;

(4) Supervised experience shall not include any hours cumulated prior to the conferral of the clinical graduate degree;

(5) The supervisee shall not utilize their own independent private mental health practice as an acceptable setting for supervised clinical work experience;

(6) If the supervised professional experience was in a private practice, then the supervisee shall have a W-2 relationship with the site. A 1099 independent contractor relationship with the site shall not meet this requirement;

(7) The supervisor shall not be related to the supervisee in any of the following ways:

a. As a spouse;

b. As a parent, stepparent, parent-in-law, or step-parent-in-law;

c. As a natural, foster or adopted child, or stepchild; or

d. As a sibling, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law; and

(8) The supervisor shall not have a dual relationship with supervisee which might impair their objectivity as described in Mhp 501.02(c).

Notes

N.H. Admin. Code § Mhp 304.02

Derived From Volume XXXV Number 27, Filed July 9, 2015, Proposed by #10857, Effective 6/24/2015, Expires6/24/2025. Amended by Number 45, Filed November 9, 2023, Proposed by #13786, Effective 12/19/2023, Expires 12/19/2033 (See Revision Note at chapter heading for Mhp 300).