NAC641B.150. Licensed clinical social worker: Internship required for licensure.

     1. An applicant for licensure as a licensed clinical social worker must complete an internship consisting of not less than 3,000 hours of supervised, postgraduate clinical social work. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the required work must be:

     (a) Undertaken in a program that is approved by the Board before the applicant begins the program. The program must include, without limitation:

          (1) An examination, if deemed necessary by the Board;

          (2) An appropriate setting, as determined by the Board;

          (3) Supervision of the applicant by a supervisor who has been approved by the Board; and

          (4) A plan of supervision that has been approved by the Board.

     (b) Completed not earlier than 2 years or later than 3 years after the Board approves the program. For good cause, the Board will grant a specific extension of this period.

     (c) Conducted pursuant to the requirements and standards set forth by the Board. For good cause, the Board will withdraw its approval of a particular program.

     2. At least 2,000 hours of the supervised, postgraduate clinical social work required by subsection 1 must be in the area of psychotherapeutic methods and techniques to persons, families and groups to help in the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional conditions. Unless otherwise approved by the Board, an average of 25 hours per week, not to exceed 325 hours in each quarter, of postgraduate hours in the use of psychotherapeutic methods and techniques will be accepted toward satisfying this requirement. The remaining hours required by subsection 1 may be completed in other areas of clinical social work.

     3. An applicant who has completed 3,000 hours of supervised, postgraduate clinical social work in another state within the immediately preceding 10 years may submit to the Board for its consideration evidence of the satisfactory completion of that work and documentation that his or her supervisor was a clinical social worker and was qualified to supervise in that state. The Board will approve that work and accept it for licensure if the Board determines that the experience of the applicant is substantially equivalent to or exceeds the current standards established by the Board for those applicants who complete their work in this State.

     4. The following activities do not qualify as supervised, postgraduate clinical social work:

     (a) Instruction in techniques or procedures through classes, workshops or seminars.

     (b) Orientational programs.

     (c) Role-playing as a substitute for actual social work.

     (d) Psychotherapy of the intern himself or herself.

     (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, practice which is not under the supervision of an agency. The Board will consider a person to be under the supervision of an agency if:

          (1) Each client who is served by the intern is a client of the agency and that fact is clearly set forth on each contract, release, agreement for financial reimbursement and billing statement which relates to that client;

          (2) All records regarding clients belong to the agency and the agency has provided for their confidentiality and safekeeping;

          (3) The agency appoints a specific employee of the agency to act as the board-approved supervisor of the intern, if such an employee is available, or otherwise approves a nonemployee to do so;

          (4) The appointed supervisor reviews the work of the intern in the manner required for supervisors of interns;

          (5) The appointed supervisor is granted complete access to all records of the agency related to the practice of the applicant; and

          (6) Any compensation for the services of the intern is provided directly by the agency.

     (f) Any other activity that the Board determines is not within the scope of the practice of clinical social work.

     5. Any supervised, postgraduate clinical social work completed before January 1, 1990, by an applicant who holds an equivalent license from another state that is in good standing to engage in the practice of clinical social work as described in this chapter and chapter 641B of NRS is not required to be completed under the supervision of an agency if the Board determines that:

     (a) There is good cause for waiving the requirement that the practice be under the supervision of an agency; and

     (b) The experience of the applicant is substantially equivalent to or exceeds the current standards established by the Board.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Exam’rs for Social Workers, eff. 9-20-88; A 5-15-92; 10-25-93; R113-98, 1-13-99; R079-02, 1-9-2003; R048-04, 5-25-2004; R142-08, 2-11-2009)