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Best Practices in Clinical Supervision: A Blueprint for Providing Effective and Ethical Clinical Supervision

Are you considering joining the ranks of those who are approved to provide this invaluable oversight of fellow professionals? Are you already a clinical supervisor and need to formalize and enhance your knowledge and skills? This recording presents a blueprint, based on established best practices, for providing effective and ethical clinical supervision.

Explore clinical supervision through the lens of critical legal, ethical, and risk management issues. Gain clarity on how to define the goals of supervision, as well as the responsibilities of both supervisor and supervisee. Analyze the “How Do I?” of clinical supervision, with details on individual vs. group supervision, case consultation, interactive live supervision, audio and video sessions, and other methods and techniques. Determine how to meet, and then exceed, your obligations regarding competence, confidentiality, vicarious liability, and other standards.

Program Information

Objectives

Differentiate the roles and responsibilities of supervisor and supervisee.
Choose the most effective model of clinical supervision for a particular setting.
Determine how to properly use various methods and techniques of clinical supervision.
Demonstrate how to avoid and resolve ethical, legal, and risk management problems that arise in clinical supervision.
Utilize various tools available for evaluating supervisees and supervision.
Determine how to meet standards of competence, confidentiality, and vicarious liability.

Outline

ESTABLISH ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Administrative vs. clinical supervision
Role of the clinical supervisor
Teaching supervisees how to use supervision effectively
Assisting supervisees in taking an active role

CHOOSE THE MOST EFFECTIVE SUPERVISION MODEL FOR YOUR SETTING

Developmental models
Psychotherapy based models
Integrative models
Parallel process model
The supervisee as “patient”

MASTER EFFECTIVE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES OF SUPERVISION

Multicultural supervision
Individual vs. group supervision
Co-therapy vs. co-responsibility
Case consultation
Written activities and case notes
Live observation
Interactive live supervision
Audio and video recording of sessions
Experiential methods

AVOID AND RESOLVE PROBLEMS THAT ARISE DURING SUPERVISION

Ethical
- Supervisor competence
- Informed consent
- Boundary issues
- Dual relationships
- Supervisor/supervisee obligations
- Incompetent or impaired supervisees
- Sexual attraction
- Confidentiality
- Documentation
- Evaluation and feedback
Legal
- Vicarious liability
- Standard-of-care
- Negligence
- Confidentiality vs. privilege
- Duty to warn/report
- Due process
Risk management
- Knowledge of ethical codes and mental health law
- Supervision contracts
- Boundaries of competence
- Consultation supervision
- Documentation
- Ongoing training in supervision
- Liability insurance coverage
- Insuring confidentiality
- Supervisory malpractice

PROPERLY EVALUATE SUPERVISEES AND SUPERVISION

Formative vs. summative evaluations
Criteria for evaluation
Standardization of methods
Self-evaluation
Objective evaluation tools
Supervisory evaluation
360-degree feedback
Develop a supervisory plan

CASE STUDIES

Target Audience

Psychologists
Case Managers
Clinical Supervisors
Counselors
Marriage & Family Therapy
Mental Health Administrators
Psychiatric Nurse
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
Psychologists
Social Workers

Copyright : 01/25/2018

Online Clinical Supervision: Best Practices for Every Clinician

Tele-supervision solves a lot of problems – particularly for licensees who don’t have access to high quality, affordable clinical supervisors, and even more so for clinicians who are seeking supervision within a specific specialty such as multicultural counseling or LGBTQ populations.

Join Rachel McCrickard, LMFT, founder of the first HIPAA-compliant video platform for providing clinical supervision, for this 1- hour recording highlighting best practices for distance supervision as well as the professional opportunities it presents. You’ll learn:

How states are shifting licensure rules to allow online supervision
A first look at recent research on the efficacy of tele-supervision
Best practices for establishing an online clinical supervision presence.  
The challenges of using this emerging modality, including ethical implications
And more!

You don’t want to miss the latest information on this growing trend in supervision.

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Outline

How states are shifting licensure rules to allow online supervision
A first look at recent research on the efficacy of tele-supervision
Best practices for establishing an online clinical supervision presence  
Review a sample Supervision Contract

Objectives

Appraise recent research on the efficacy of tele-supervision
Implement five best practices of delivering tele-supervision
Determine where to find the rules and regulations relative to clinical supervision by state and/or professional board

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Psychotherapists
Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Case Managers
Nurses

Copyright : 04/15/2020

Comprehensive DSM-5-TR™ Updates: New Diagnoses, Coding Changes & Cultural Considerations

Neglecting new diagnoses, making coding errors & culturally insensitive language faux pas can be time-consuming, frustrating & cause you to lose clients.

But… it doesn’t have to be that way. Quickly and efficiently learn the updates to DSM-5-TR™!

Join Dr. George Haarman, PSYD, LMFT for the most thorough and comprehensive education you can get on DSM-5-TR™ updates. You’ll get everything you need to know on:

New disorders including prolonged grief, suicidal behavior disorder & more!
Specific suicidal considerations for EVERY disorder
Updated language for gender dysphoria, dysthymia, delirium & more
How to apply over 50 coding changes and new V-code specifiers

Plus, explore cultural considerations, broad DSM controversies, philosophy, unethical practices & more!

Program Information

Objectives

Inspect differences between the DSM-5® and the DSM-5-TR™.
Categorize new classifications that have been added to the DSM-5-TR™.
Appraise the impact of culture and race on DSM-5-TR™.
Apply updates to coding changes to over 50 changes.
Integrate changes in diagnostic criteria between DSM-5® and DSM-5-TR™.
Analyze diagnostic criteria for Suicidal Behavior Disorder, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, and Prolonged Grief Disorder.

Outline

DSM-5-TR™: Controversies & Philosophy

“Colossal errors” in the DSM-5™
Ties to the pharmaceutical industry & what it means
Have we pathologized everyone?
Internalizing vs externalizing components of disorders
Integrate WHODAS in assessment
Culture free or impacted by creators?

Disorder & Diagnostic Criteria Changes

Updates to:
- Dysthymia
- Gender Dysphoria – changes to language
- Delirium
- Adjustment Disorders
- Specific instructions coding substance use disorder specifiers
- Expirations of grief – have we pathologized it?
Major differences between DSM-5™ & DSM-5-TR™

Master Coding Changes

Over 50 coding changes, NEW:
- Specifiers
- V-Codes
- Z-Codes
Language updates & more

Cultural Considerations: Essential Diagnoses

Use the Cultural formation interview (CFI)
Susto, Taijin Kyofusho & more cultural diagnoses
Non-diagnostic foci of clinical attention

Unethical Practices & Common Questions

Going too far with Adjustment Disorders?
Suicide considerations for EVERY disorder
Pocket guide vs Full
When do I withhold diagnosis?
Can I skip a medical examination or screening?
What if I just work with one population?

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Physicians
Physician Assistants
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Other Mental Health Professionals