Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 1470 - CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK AND SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE ACT › Section 1470.20 - Clinical Professional Experience

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Persons applying for licensure as a
			 licensed clinical social worker shall be required to complete supervised
			 clinical professional experience pursuant to Section 9 of the Act and this
			 Part.
1) Persons holding a master's degree in
			 social work shall have completed 3,000 hours of satisfactory, supervised
			 clinical professional experience subsequent to the receipt of the
			 degree;
2) Persons holding a
			 doctorate degree in social work shall have completed 2,000 hours of
			 satisfactory, supervised clinical professional experience subsequent to the
			 receipt of the degree;
3) The
			 required number of hours may have been obtained in the following manner:
A) for full-time experience, a minimum of 30
			 hours per week but not more than 40 hours per week.
B) for part-time experience, not more than 29
			 hours per week.
4)
			 Supervised experience shall be experience directly related to clinical social
			 work practice as defined in Section 3(5) of the Act:
A) The supervisor shall have met with the
			 applicant an average of at least 4 hours each month to discuss client cases and
			 treatment procedures.
B) Until
			 December 31, 1994, the supervisor shall have been a certified social worker
			 registered under the Clinical Social Work and Social Work Practice Act
			 (formerly Social Workers Registration Act) with clinical experience, a licensed
			 clinical social worker, a diplomate in clinical social work, a designated
			 member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers (ACSW), a Board certified
			 psychiatrist, a licensed clinical psychologist, a supervisor from another state
			 who is a clinical professional credentialed at the highest level required by
			 that state or other appropriate clinical supervisor as approved by the Social
			 Work Examining and Disciplinary Board (the "Board"). In determining other
			 appropriate supervisor, the Board shall consider, but not be limited to, the
			 following: unavailability of a person licensed under the Act, the setting in
			 which the supervision took place, and the credentials and job responsibilities
			 of the supervisor.
C) After January
			 1, 1995, only experience supervised by a licensed clinical social worker will
			 be acceptable to meet the professional clinical experience requirement set
			 forth in Section 1470.20(a). If
			 supervision was in another jurisdiction in which clinical social workers are
			 not licensed, the supervisor shall have been engaged in clinical social work
			 and be credentialed at the highest level required by that
			 jurisdiction.
D) The experience
			 shall have been evaluated by the supervisor as satisfactory.
E) An applicant may contract with a licensed
			 clinical social worker to provide supervision.
F) Supervision may be provided within an
			 agency of employment or outside the agency.
G) Supervision may be paid or
			 unpaid.
H) Supervision may be on an
			 individual or group basis. When group supervision is provided the number of
			 supervisees may not exceed five.
I)
			 Professional clinical experience obtained while the applicant is located in
			 Illinois must be supervised by an Illinois licensed social worker.