Lois Ehrmann – Intensive 2 Day Course: Clinical Supervision-Confidently Address Difficult Issues and Build a Foundation for Success

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
• Set clear expectations for supervision
• Who supervises the supervisor?
• Documentation: If it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen

Models of Clinical Supervision: Find the Right Fit for You and Your Setting

• Psychodynamic
• Social role
• Developmental
• Psychotherapy-based
• Attachment-focused
• Practice: Developing your own model of supervision

The Supervisory Alliance: Building a Foundation for Everyone’s Success

• Overcome supervisee resistance, anxiety and transference
• Manage power dynamics and counter-transference
• Attend to attachment ruptures in the relationship
• Self-disclosure: Why, when, and for whom
• Practice: Supervisory relationship strengthening techniques

Techniques and Strategies for Effective Supervision

• Know Yourself: Self-Reflection Builds Supervisor Identity
  • Clinical Supervisor Genogram
  • Engage in reflectivity
  • When to seek your own supervision
• Give Effective Feedback: Having Hard Conversations
  • Summative versus formative feedback
  • The ratio you must know to give corrective feedback
  • Specific counselor interventions
  • Explore the inner world of the supervisee
  • Activation triggers
• Observation Methods: Pros and Cons
  • Live observation
  • Audio-video recordings
  • Interpersonal process recordings
• Mindfulness Practices to Support Supervisees
  • Centering activities to begin each session
  • Thought/meditation cards
  • Breathing exercises
• Illustrate Supervisee/Client Interactions
  • Parts maps
  • Diagrams
• Resolve Supervisor/Supervisee Tensions
  • Structure versus free reign
  • Directive versus non-directive
  • Nurture versus neutrality
• Reflectivity: More Than Active Listening
  • Person of the therapist exercise
  • Reflection letters
  • Journaling

Cultural Competence: Proactive Treatment of Cultural Differences

• When the supervisor-supervisee dyad is impacted
• Methods for identifying supervisee cultural and contextual background factors
• Strategies for increasing awareness of bias
• Ways to identify and manage micro-aggressions
• Practice: Having uncomfortable conversations about cultural differences

Group Supervision

• When to utilize groups
• Advantages of a group setting
• Tips for setting up group norms
• Methods for strengthening the supervisory alliance in group
• Practice: Role plays of group scenarios

Legal/Ethical Issues: Protect Yourself, Protect Your License

• Know your code: ACES/ACA, APA, ASWB/NASW, AAMFT
• Are you a competent supervisor?
• How to evaluate supervisee competency
• Everything you need to know about:
  • Standard of care
  • Informed consent
  • Boundaries
  • Privacy vs confidentiality
  • Dual relationships
  • Liability: Direct and vicarious
  • Duty to Warn
  • Social media/use of technology
  • and more!
• Decision tree relevant to clinical supervision
• Practice: Handling an impaired supervisee