George Haarman – 2 Day Intensive Course: Clinical Supervision: Providing Effective Supervision, Navigating Ethical Issues and Managing Risk

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 Tensions

• 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