Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 86 - State Board of Behavioral Health Licensure › Chapter 11 - Licensed Professional Counselors › Subchapter 11 - Supervised Experience Requirement › Section 86:11-11-5 - Duration of supervision

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) Three (3)
				years or three-thousand (3000) clock hours of full time, on-the-job experience,
				which is supervised by an approved LPC supervisor, shall be
				completed.
(b) For each
				one-thousand (1000) clock hours of full time, on-the-job experience, three
				hundred fifty (350) hours shall be direct face to face client
				contact.
(c) "Full time" means at
				least twenty (20) hours per week.
(d) Weekly, face-to-face supervision shall be
				accrued under an LPC at the ratio of forty-five (45) minutes of supervision for
				every twenty (20) hours of on-the-job experience.
(e) "Group supervision" means an assemblage
				of counseling supervisees consisting of from two (2) to six (6) members and no
				more than one-half (½) of the required supervision hours may be received
				in group supervision.
(f) One (1)
				or two (2) years of supervised experience may be gained at the rate of one (1)
				year for each thirty (30) graduate semester credit hours or forty-five (45)
				graduate quarter credit hours in counseling-related course work beyond the
				master's degree. (Minimal educational requirements are a master's degree [at
				least forty-five (45) hours] or doctorate with the first forty-five (45) hours
				meeting the minimal educational requirements. As of January 1, 2000, minimal
				educational requirements are a master's degree [at least sixty (60) semester
				credit hours or ninety (90) quarter credit hours] or a doctorate with the first
				sixty (60) semester credit hours or ninety (90) quarter credit hours meeting
				the minimal educational requirements.)
(g) Regardless of the number of hours earned
				beyond the master's degree, the LPC supervisee shall receive at least one (1)
				year or one-thousand (1000) clock hours of supervision in the ratio described
				in subchapter 11, section
				310:405-11-5(b-d).
(h) If an applicant completes the supervised
				experience requirement before passing the licensure examination, the applicant
				shall continue to practice under LPC supervision as described in this
				subchapter, unless exempted by the Act, until licensed. Failure to do so
				constitutes a violation of the Act and may be subject to prosecution under the
				District Attorney and sanction by the Commissioner of Health.
(i) Applicants shall complete supervised
				experience requirements within sixty (60) months of the date of the approval of
				the first supervision agreement or the application shall be voided.
(j) Approved supervisors shall perform at
				least two (2) observations (live or tape) per each six (6) month evaluation
				period for each supervisee.
(k)
				Approved supervisors shall consult with on-site supervisor at least once during
				each six (6) month evaluation period for each supervisee.
Transferred from
					 310:405-11-5
					 by Laws 2013, c. 229, § 3(F), eff 11-1-13 (see Editor's Note at beginning
					 of this Chapter)