Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE › Division 2233 - State Committee of Marital and Family Therapists › Chapter 2 - Licensure Requirements › Section 20 CSR 2233-2.021 - Registered Supervisors and Supervisory Responsibilities

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment clarifies the number of
				  individuals a licensee may supervise.
(1) A supervisor may not have more than a
				combined total of ten (10) supervisees including S-MFTs, PLMFTs and/or
				licensure supervision candidates from other mental health disciplines at the
				same time. In order to provide supervision for a provisional licensed marital
				and family therapist (PLMFT) or supervised-marital and family therapist
				(S-MFT), a supervisor shall document the following to the state committee:
(A) A graduate degree with a major in marital
				and family therapy or mental health discipline from a regionally accredited
				institution acceptable to the United States Department of Education;
				and
(B) Five (5) years clinical
				experience in providing marital and family therapy as defined in section
				337.700(7), RSMo. For
				the purpose of this regulation, clinical experience shall not include practicum
				or internships associated with the graduate degree required in 20 CSR
				2233-2.021(1)(A); and
(C) For
				supervision occurring in Missouri, the supervisor shall document to the state
				committee that the supervisor has the following:
1. Current license in Missouri or another
				state as a marital and family therapist, professional counselor, psychologist,
				clinical social worker, or psychiatrist for at least two (2) years. For the
				purpose of this regulation an inactive, provisional, expired, temporary, or
				retired license shall not meet this requirement; and
2. Designation as an approved supervisor by
				the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy; or
3. A minimum of two hundred (200) hours of
				clinical supervision of individuals seeking licensure as a professional
				counselor pursuant to sections
				337.500 to
				337.540,
				RSMo, psychologist pursuant to sections
				337.010 to
				337.090,
				RSMo, clinical social worker pursuant to sections
				337.600 to
				337.689,
				RSMo, or graduate practicum or internship student enrolled in master's,
				specialist, or doctoral degree program in compliance with section 337.510.1(1),
				RSMo, (professional counselor), section 337.021.1, RSMo, (psychologist),
				section 337.615.1, RSMo, (social worker), or section 337.715.1(1), RSMo,
				(marital and family therapist).
A. A minimum
				of one hundred (100) hours of the two hundred (200) hours of supervised
				experience shall be supervising individuals within the context of systems
				theory and marital and family therapy.
B. One (1) graduate semester hour in marital
				and family supervision or fifteen (15) continuing education hours in a
				comparably organized and integrated series of workshops and supervised studies
				of marital and family therapy supervision.
C. A minimum of twenty (20) hours of
				supervision-of-supervision and/or in the process of receiving
				supervision-of-supervision. For the purpose of this regulation, the major
				emphasis of supervision-of-supervision shall be the development of the
				licensee's supervisory skills from a systemic perspective and shall include
				theories of supervision, supervision practice, and professional
				ethics.