| (a) Supervision in General. The following rules apply
to all supervisory relationships.
(1) Licensee is responsible for the supervision of
all individuals that the licensee employs or utilizes to provide psychological
services of any kind.
(2) Licensees shall ensure that their supervisees have
legal authority to provide psychological services.
(3) Licensees may delegate only those responsibilities
that supervisees may legally and competently perform.
(4) All individuals who receive psychological services
requiring informed consent from an individual under supervision must
be informed in writing of the supervisory status of the individual
and how the patient or client may contact the supervising licensee
directly.
(5) All materials relating to the practice of psychology,
upon which the supervisee's name or signature appears, must indicate
the supervisory status of the supervisee. Supervisory status must
be indicated by one of the following:
(A) Supervised by (name of supervising licensee);
(B) Under the supervision of (name of supervising licensee);
(C) The following persons are under the supervision
of (name of supervising licensee); or
(D) Supervisee of (name of supervising licensee).
(6) Licensees shall provide an adequate level of supervision
to all individuals under their supervision according to accepted professional
standards given the experience, skill and training of the supervisee,
the availability of other qualified licensees for consultation, and
the type of psychological services being provided.
(7) Licensees shall utilize methods of supervision
that enable the licensee to monitor all delegated services for legal,
competent, and ethical performance. No more than fifty percent of
the supervision may take place through remote or electronic means.
Licensees may exceed fifty percent remote or electronic supervision
if supervision is provided through synchronous audiovisual means.
(8) Licensees must be competent to perform any psychological
services being provided under their supervision.
(9) Licensees shall document their supervision activities
in writing, including any remote or electronic supervision provided.
Documentation shall include the dates, times, and length of supervision.
(10) Licensees may only supervise the number of supervisees
for which they can provide adequate supervision.
(b) Supervision of Students, Interns, Residents, Fellows,
and Trainees. The following rules apply to all supervisory relationships
involving students, interns, residents, fellows, and trainees.
(1) Unlicensed individuals providing psychological
services pursuant to §§501.004(a)(2), 501.2525(a)(2)(A),
or 501.260(b)(3) of the Occupations Code must be under the supervision
of a qualified supervising licensee at all times.
(2) Supervision must be provided by a qualified supervising
licensee before it will be accepted for licensure purposes.
(3) A licensee practicing under a restricted status
license is not qualified to, and shall not provide supervision for
a person seeking to fulfill internship or practicum requirements or
a person seeking licensure under the Psychologists' Licensing Act,
regardless of the setting in which the supervision takes place, unless
authorized to do so by the Council. A licensee shall inform all supervisees
of any disciplinary order restricting the licensee's license and assist
the supervisees with finding appropriate alternate supervision.
(4) A supervisor must document in writing a supervisee's
performance during a practicum, internship, or period of supervised
experience required for licensure. The supervisor must provide this
documentation to the supervisee.
(5) A supervisor may allow a supervisee, as part of
a required practicum, internship, or period of supervised experience
required for licensure under Chapter 501, to supervise others in the
delivery of psychological services.
(6) Licensees may not supervise an individual to whom
they are related within the second degree of affinity or consanguinity.
(c) Supervision of Provisionally Licensed Psychologists
and Licensed Psychological Associates. The following rules apply to
all supervisory relationships involving Provisionally Licensed Psychologists
and Licensed Psychological Associates.
(1) Provisionally Licensed Psychologists must be under
the supervision of a Licensed Psychologist and may not engage in independent
practice unless the provisional licensee is licensed in another state
to independently practice psychology and is in good standing in that
state.
(2) A Provisionally Licensed Psychologist may, as part
of a period of supervised experience required for licensure as a psychologist,
supervise others in the delivery of psychological services.
(3) A supervisor must provide at least one hour of
individual supervision per week. A supervisor may reduce the amount
of weekly supervision on a proportional basis for supervisees working
less than full-time.
(d) Supervision of Licensed Specialists in School Psychology
interns and other individuals authorized by §463.9(g)(1) (relating
to Licensed Specialist in School Psychology). The following rules
apply to all supervisory relationships involving Licensed Specialists
in School Psychology, as well as all interns and other individuals
authorized by §463.9(g)(1) working toward licensure as a specialist
in school psychology.
(1) Supervision within the public schools may only
be provided by a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology who has
a minimum of 3 years of experience providing psychological services
within the public school system without supervision. To qualify, a
licensee must be able to show proof of their license, credential,
or authority to provide unsupervised school psychological services
in the jurisdiction where those services were provided, along with
documentation from the public school(s) evidencing delivery of those
services.
(2) Supervisors must sign educational documents completed
for students by the supervisee, including student evaluation reports,
or similar professional reports to consumers, other professionals,
or other audiences. It is not a violation of this rule if supervisors
do not sign documents completed by a committee reflecting the deliberations
of an educational meeting for an individual student which the supervisee
attended and participated in as part of the legal proceedings required
by federal and state education laws, unless the supervisor also attended
and participated in such meeting.
(3) Supervisors shall document all supervision sessions.
This documentation must include information about the duration of
sessions, as well as the focus of discussion or training. The documentation
must also include information regarding:
(A) any contracts or service agreements between the
public school district and university school psychology training program;
(B) any contracts or service agreements between the
public school district and the supervisee;
(C) the supervisee's professional liability insurance
coverage, if any;
(D) any training logs required by the school psychology
training program; and
(E) the supervisee's licensure status or legal authority
to provide psychological services.
(4) Supervisors must ensure that each individual completing
any portion of the internship required for licensure as an LSSP, is
provided with a written agreement that includes a clear statement
of the expectations, duties, and responsibilities of each party, including
the total hours to be performed by the intern, benefits and support
to be provided by the supervisor, and the process by which the intern
will be supervised and evaluated.
(5) Supervisors must ensure that supervisees have access
to a process for addressing serious concerns regarding a supervisee's
performance. The process must protect the rights of clients to receive
quality services, assure adequate feedback and opportunities for improvement
to the supervisee, and ensure due process protection in cases of possible
termination of the supervisory relationship.
(e) The various parts of this rule should be construed,
if possible, so that effect is given to each part. However, where
a general provision conflicts with a more specific provision, the
specific provision shall control.
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