New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 16 - OCCUPATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSING
Chapter 63 - SOCIAL WORKERS
Part 11 - CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER
Section 16.63.11.8 - QUALIFICATION FOR LICENSURE

Universal Citation: 16 NM Admin Code 16.63.11.8

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

Applicants for licensure as independent/clinical social workers must:

A. be at least 18 years of age;

B. possess an LMSW license;

C. complete not less than two years of post-graduate direct/ clinical social work experience, under appropriate supervision; as defined in 16.63.1.7 NMAC Applicants and supervisors will engage the process of supervision in accordance with the guidelines established by the board of social work examiners;

D. documents completion of the required course in New Mexico cultures; and

E. successfully pass the association of social work board examination, clinical or advanced, as determined by the board and the jurisprudence examination.

F. Individuals licensed as masters social workers (LMSW) and aspiring to achieve licensure at the independent clinical level must complete and document 3,600 hours of licensed masters level social work experience which has been accumulated over no more than a 60 month period.

G. Applicants for licensure must document 90 hours of supervision during this 3,600 hour period.

(1) One hour of supervision must be documented for every 40 hours worked,

(2) At least 70 of the 90 required hours must be obtained through direct supervision,

(3) No more than 20 hours of the 90 required hours may be obtained through group supervision and there shall be no more than six individuals per group at a time, and

(4) No more than 30 hours of the required 90 hours may be obtained through interdisciplinary supervision.

H. provide proof of any disqualifying criminal convictions as defined in 16.63.13.9 NMAC.

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