02-514-8 Me. Code R. § A-11

Current through 2024-50, December 11, 2024

Section 514-8-A-11 - Supervision

The licensed counselor, acting as a supervisor, provides professional assistance to individuals or groups to clarify and resolve issues or dilemmas related to clients and is responsible for monitoring client welfare, encouraging compliance with relevant legal and ethical standards, monitoring performance and professional development of supervisees, and evaluating and verifying current performance of supervisees. The supervisor must be well trained and experienced in providing supervision as well as aware of the limits of his or her skill, knowledge and competence.

Misconduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:

1. Failing to ensure that supervisees inform their clients that they are being supervised;

2. When supervisees are conditionally licensed, failing to ensure that supervisees inform their clients that they are conditionally licensed;

3. Engaging in supervision without adequate training in supervision and supervision methods;

4. Failing to maintain regular, substantive and ongoing professional development in supervision;

5. Failing to make supervisees aware of legal and ethical standards of the profession of counseling as well as those standards established by the board;

6. Failing to establish procedures with the supervisee for handling crisis situations;

7. Failing to provide the supervisee with ongoing review and feedback;

8. Engaging in a dual relationship with a supervisee that impairs the objectivity of the supervisor or in which the licensee is exploited by the supervisor;

9. Establishing a psychotherapeutic relationship with the supervisee or establishing a supervisory relationship with a client;

10. Failing to provide assistance to supervisees who are unable to provide competent services;

11. Endorsing a supervisee for licensure when the supervisor is aware that the supervisee is impaired such that his or her performance may be adversely affected; and

12. Providing supervision in areas beyond the current level of knowledge and skill of the supervisor.

02-514 C.M.R. ch. 8, § A-11