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I’m in my 3d year of NSBEP supervision for psychotherapy with adults. I am looking to find a supervisor for ADHD assessments. I completed an ADHD assessment with a child as a grad student. I am struggling to find a supervisor. I was wondering what guidance NSBEP can provide in terms of amount of supervision needed to become competent? Also, the owner of the private practice clinic I work in has the assessment tools and is able to provide supervision. I know traditionally a psychologist in a supervisory role is not allowed to provide supervision, however considering I already have a NSBEP supervisor, I wonder if accommodations can be made.

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I’m in my 3d year of NSBEP supervision for psychotherapy with adults. I am looking to find a supervisor for ADHD assessments. I completed an ADHD assessment with a child as a grad student. I am struggling to find a supervisor. I was wondering what guidance NSBEP can provide in terms of amount of supervision needed to become competent? Also, the owner of the private practice clinic I work in has the assessment tools and is able to provide supervision. I know traditionally a psychologist in a supervisory role is not allowed to provide supervision, however considering I already have a NSBEP supervisor, I wonder if accommodations can be made.

Category: Candidate

In such a case, you could establish a learning plan for ADHD assessments, and it would be okay for the owner to be the mentor of the learning plan, while you maintain your existing NSRP supervisor. For instructions on establishing a learning plan, please see page 21 of the existing Supervision Handbook:

https://www.ns-rp.ca/downloads/SupervisionHandbook.pdf

In this case, NSRP would ask that you ensure that the owner and NSRP supervisor have regular communication, so that the NSRP Supervisor has any information that may be required as part of the supervision process.

Reference: 
Learning Plan
Posted on December 29, 2021
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