Section 4980.43.4 - [Effective Until 1/1/2025] Place of performance; supervision(a) A trainee, associate, or applicant for licensure shall only perform mental health and related services at the places where their employer permits business to be conducted.(b) An associate who is employed by or is volunteering in a private practice or a professional corporation shall be supervised by an individual who is both of the following: (1) Is employed by or contracted by the associate's employer or is an owner of the private practice or professional corporation.(2) Either provides psychotherapeutic services to clients for the associate's employer, or meets both of the following:(A) The supervisor and the associate's employer have a written contract providing the supervisor the same access to the associate's clinical records provided to employees of that employer.(B) The associate's clients authorize the release of their clinical records to the supervisor.(c) Supervisors of supervisees in a nonexempt setting shall not serve as individual or triadic supervisors for more than six supervisees at any time. Supervisees may be registered as associate marriage and family therapists, associate professional clinical counselors, associate clinical social workers, or any combination of those registrations.(d) A written oversight agreement, as specified by the board by regulation, shall be executed between the supervisor and employer when the supervisor is not employed by the supervisee's employer or is a volunteer. The supervisor shall evaluate the site or sites where the supervisee will be gaining experience to determine that the site or sites comply with the requirements of this chapter.Ca. Bus. and Prof. Code § 4980.43.4
Amended by Stats 2021 ch 747 (AB 690),s 7, eff. 1/1/2022.Amended by Stats 2019 ch 456 (SB 786),s 66, eff. 1/1/2020.Renumbered from Ca. Bus. and Prof'l. Code § 4980.45 by Stats 2018 ch 743 (AB 93),s 16, eff. 1/1/2019.Amended by Stats 2011 ch 350 (SB 943),s 30, eff. 1/1/2012.Amended by Stats 2009 ch 307 (SB 821),s 49, eff. 1/1/2010.Amended by Stats 2007 ch 586 (AB 234),s 3, eff. 1/1/2008.Amended by Stats 2002 ch 1013 (SB 2026), s 24, eff. 1/1/2003.Amended by Stats 2001 ch 435 (SB 349), s 15, eff. 1/1/2002.Previously Amended October 10, 1999 (Bill Number: AB 1677) (Chapter 657).This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.