2011 South Dakota Code
Title 27A MENTALLY ILL PERSONS
Chapter 01. Definitions And General Provisions
§27A-1-11 Clinical supervision of applicants for competency-based endorsements.

27A-1-11. Clinical supervision of applicants for competency-based endorsements. For those mental health professionals applying for the competency-based endorsement, clinical supervision is provided by a qualified mental health professional as defined in § 27A-1-3. It includes the supervision of mental health professionals in the provision of client services and assesses the competency of professionals in such areas as psychopathology and the practice of diagnosis, knowledge and practice of counseling and psychotherapy theories and techniques, basic counseling skills, crisis intervention, knowledge and practice of treatment methodologies for mental and emotional disorders and serious and persistent mental illness, psychotropic medications, knowledge and practice of individual and group approaches to assessment and evaluation and interview assessment procedures, knowledge of ethical standards, knowledge of South Dakota law as it pertains to the provision of mental health services, and professional conduct with clients. For those mental health professionals applying for the competency-based endorsement, clinical supervision requires a minimum of one hundred hours of direct face-to-face supervision for the two years of required clinical supervision.

Source: SL 1995, ch 155, § 2.