- Develop best practices for providing clinical supervision, including the use of a written supervisory contract and thorough documentation procedures.
- Analyze models of clinical supervision, including the advantages and disadvantages of each.
- Apply the six building blocks of providing competent supervision.
- Conduct a self-assessment of your competencies as a supervisor.
- Demonstrate the use of constructive feedback strategies as they relate to clinical supervision practice.
- Utilize various observation methods for the purpose of providing ongoing feedback for supervisees to improve their clinical skills.
- Create a detailed professional development plan for supervisees.
- Establish standards for identifying and addressing cultural or contextual bias within both the supervisory and the therapeutic relationship and developing "cultural humility."
- Identify personal values, biases, and expectations and use skills, techniques, and strategies for supervising diverse populations.
- Use specific strategies for dealing effectively with an impaired supervisee.
- Provide timely, clear, descriptive feedback to supervisees using multiple formats, methods, and techniques.
- Recognize the key legal issues and risks involved in being a clinical supervisor, particularly vicarious liability.
- Articulate the major ethical issues involving supervision including competence, due process, informed consent, confidentiality, and multiple/dual relationships.
- Summarize risk management strategies for supervision.
Course Outline
Getting Started: How to Optimize the Initial Supervision Sessions
- Establish roles and responsibilities
- How to write a comprehensive Informed Consent Agreement and Supervisory Contract
- Setting clear expectations for supervision
- Documentation: If it's not in writing, it didn't happen
- Types of supervision: Individual, group, team, peer, case consultation
- Practice Exercise: Writing a Supervisory contract for Ned Newbie
The Supervisory Alliance: Building a Foundation for Everyone's Success
- 10 myths about clinical supervision
- Supervision versus consultation
- Must have knowledge, skills, and attitude of the competent supervisor
- 10 factors contributing to the "best" and "worst" supervisors
- The Supervisee's Bill of Rights
- The Building Blocks of Effective Supervision:
- Competency
- Diversity
- Supervisee relationship
- Professionalism
- Assessment/evaluation/feedback
- Practice Exercise: Competency-Based Supervisor Self-Assessment
Models of Clinical Supervision: Find the Right Fit for You and Your Setting
- Administrative versus clinical supervision
- Models of supervision:
- The "No-Model" model
- Apprentice-master
- Expert
- One-size-fits all
- Psychotherapy-based
- Parallel process
- Interactional
- Relationship
- Developmental
- Holistic
The Evaluation Process: The Key to Effective Supervision
- Legal and ethical implications
- Formats, methods, and techniques
- Formative evaluation versus summative evaluation
- 6 steps for handling a negative evaluation
Give Effective Feedback: Having Hard Conversations
- Six guiding principles for giving feedback
- How to structure constructive feedback
- Improve your constructive feedback skills
- "Unhelpful" constructive feedback
- Practice Exercise: Role Play — The Supervisor From Hell Provides Feedback To The Problematic Supervisee
- Practice Exercise: Role Play — The Constructive and Effective Supervisor Meets the Open Supervisee with an Issue
When Problems Arise: Resolve Supervisor/Supervisee Tension
- The 8000-pound elephant in the room
- 20 practical prevention strategies to avoid problems
- Common problems in supervision
- How to assess for supervisee limitations and impairment
- Strategies for dealing with an impaired supervisee
- Impairment and gatekeeping
- How to write a Professional Development Plan
- Practice Exercise: Writing a Performance Improvement Plan for Peter Problematica
Cultural Competence: Proactive Treatment of Cultural Differences
- When the supervisor-supervisee dyad is impacted
- Methods for introducing the topic of multicultural differences
- A continuum of cultural competence
- Cultural humility
Ethical and Legal Issues in Supervision: Protect Yourself, Your License, Your Agency, and Your Client
- Legal primer for mental health practitioners
- Standard of Care for Supervision
- Supervisory negligence/malpractice
- Who's responsible? Direct and vicarious liability
- Ten activities required for ethical supervision
- Core ethical principles
- Supervisory ethical violations
- Major ethical issues related to supervision
- Competence
- Due process
- Informed consent
- Confidentiality
- Multiple/dual relationships
- And more!
- Boundary crossings versus boundary violations
- Sexual misconduct
- Social boundaries: Factors to consider
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
