The 3,000 hours of post-masters supervision that the Board requires is 3,000 hours of work experience over a two calendar year period. This is referred to as your "Clinical supervision" (see below) or "Supervised practice" for non-clinical social workers. It is basically the 40 hours of work per week that you work at your agency. You can provide counseling and psychosocial interventions without supervision; and social psychotherapy under the supervision of an independent social worker, a professional clinical counselor, a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or a registered nurse with a master's degree in psychiatric nursing.:

(1) "Clinical supervision" of social workers performing social psychotherapy and social workers employed in a private practice, partnership, or group practice means the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the supervisee's performance; professional guidance to the supervisee; approval of the supervisee's intervention plans and their implementation; the assumption of responsibility for the welfare of the supervisee's clients; and assurance that the supervisee functions within the limits of their license. The assessment, diagnosis, treatment plan, revisions to the treatment plan and transfer or termination shall be cosigned by the supervisor and shall be available to the board upon request.
(2) A non-clinical social worker will have to document how s/he uses psychosocial interventions in their practice in order for work hours to be accepted toward a LISW license.

Your "Training supervision" is the one hour of face-to-face supervision for every 20 hours that you work. This supervision can only be provided to you by a LISW with supervision designation (LISW-S). Over the two calendar year period you must have a minimum 150 hours of supervision with a LISW-S. If the 150 hours are completed prior to the 3,000 hours, two years of work experience the LSW-MSW's will still need to continue the supervision on a limited basis until the two years of work experience is completed.

(2) "Training supervision" means supervision for the purposes of obtaining a license and/or development of new areas of proficiency while providing services to clients. Training supervision may be individual supervision or group supervision.
(a) "Individual supervision" means face-to-face contact between a supervisor and an individual supervisee in a private session wherein the supervisor and supervisee deal with problems unique to the practice of that supervisee.
(b) "Group supervision" means face-to-face contact between a supervisor and a small group (not to exceed six supervisees) in a private session wherein practice problems are dealt with that are similar in nature and complexity to all supervisees in the group.

PLEASE NOTE: It is extremely important that you document your face-to-face supervision on some sort of a log. TEN PERCENT (10%) OF ALL LSW-MSW's WHO APPLY FOR A LISW ARE RANDOMLY REQUIRED TO SUBMIT COPIES OF THEIR SUPERVISION LOGS. A sample supervision log is on the web site under Social Work Forms.