I know the answer to this is likely to vary depending on the particular mode, but I think for the most part, ethics are similar unilaterally in the human services fields
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I don't know what state you are in, but if you are doing these hours towards a California license you have to have one hour of individual supervision of two hours of group by somebody licensed (MFT, LCSW or Ph.D) for EVERY FIVE HOURS of client contact. (Post-graduate Interns have a 1 to 10 ratio) If you miss a week or two, and then it picks up again and averages out, you are okay, but you will not be able to count the hours at the end if you have not had supervision throughout. (i.e. 6 hours of supervision in one week is not good, it has to be six weeks of one hour each week.)
If you are in practicum, you should have signed a contract, and your school can enforce it. The site has to provide you with supervision, either onsite or by hiring someone off-site. That is their trade off for getting free labor. You don't need to stop the work you are doing, but give the person in the placement office at your school a heads up, and if it isn't resolved immediately, your site needs to make arrangements. They could just pay an off-site person until they hire someone.
I have a similar problem at my site. We are a therapeutic school/day treatment program, and we have lost teachers. My supervisor, the director, spends a lot of time in the classroom, and tends to reschedule/cancel our supervision. I finally told her if she couldn't do it, she had to find somebody else in the agency who could. My placement office backed me up. It's just not worth risking, and I refuse to lie about supervision like one of the other interns does.
Minnesota requires 2 hours of supervision each week, so it's not dependent on the number of clinical hours being put in. And, it's not like a sleep deficit, where you can just accumulate missed time, then find ways to make it up. That said, too, they're trying to hire someone, but the pickings are slim, given the population we work with. Either way, a decision is going to be made (by me) about my role with the program by the end of the week.
If you are in practicum, you should have signed a contract, and your school can enforce it. The site has to provide you with supervision, either onsite or by hiring someone off-site. That is their trade off for getting free labor. You don't need to stop the work you are doing, but give the person in the placement office at your school a heads up, and if it isn't resolved immediately, your site needs to make arrangements. They could just pay an off-site person until they hire someone.
I have a similar problem at my site. We are a therapeutic school/day treatment program, and we have lost teachers. My supervisor, the director, spends a lot of time in the classroom, and tends to reschedule/cancel our supervision. I finally told her if she couldn't do it, she had to find somebody else in the agency who could. My placement office backed me up. It's just not worth risking, and I refuse to lie about supervision like one of the other interns does.
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