Effective Clinical Supervision: Building & Maintaining the Supervisory Alliance – 12-hour Course

This 12-hour on-demand webinar is led by Lois Ehrmann, PhD, LPC, NCC/ACS.

Registrants receive unlimited access to the recording for 365 days.

When you are on the front lines, you know the importance of good supervision. The support, interest, and sensitive feedback from a good supervisor are crucial to advancing skills, as well as ensuring that future clients are getting the best possible clinical results in an ethical and safe environment.

A skilled and competent clinical supervisor draws from the “playbook” of good counselling and listening skills but knows that supervision is not the same as therapy. Rather, clinical supervision is an undertaking that requires a new set of behaviours and skills.

The supervisory process itself and the promotion of mastery is both the art and science of clinical supervision practice. Supervisors are not born. They are trained.

Over two days, Lois Ehrmann will provide you with an informed approach to risk and liability, as well as nuanced explorations of supervisor-supervisee dynamics. You will learn about how to give feedback, the pros, and cons of different observation methods, how to better relate to supervisees whose background differs from yours, how to maintain proper boundaries, how to avoid being put on a pedestal, and more.

Through presentation, active discussion, and small-group problem solving, this workshop is designed to help you build your confidence in your supervision skills by providing instruction on how to address competently and confidently the toughest issues you will face in today’s ever-evolving psychotherapeutic world.

Learning Objectives:

  • How to construct an informed consent contract for supervision.
  • How to introduce up front information and processes to support and strengthen a supervisory alliance so that struggles are averted before they ever begin.
  • How to manage and communicate difficult or negative feedback to a supervisee.
  • How to effectively work with impaired or unethical supervisees.
  • Ways to safeguard your license, as clinical supervision has its own ethical dilemmas and pitfalls.

 
Time for reflection and small-group discussion will empower you with ideas and actual tools that you can integrate into your practice as soon as the training is over!

$429.00Add to cart

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A few clinical pearls of wisdom from Lois Ehrmann

What is Clinical Supervision?

From Clinical Therapist to Clinical Supervisor

How to handle Clinical Impairment

How to address burnout

Who are YOU: Supervisor Identity via Self-Reflection

Clinical supervisor genogram, Engage in reflectivity, When to seek your own supervision

Effective Feedback regardless of “the Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

Summative versus formative feedback, The ratio you must know to give corrective feedback, Specific counsellor interventions, Exploring the inner world of the supervisee, Working with supervisee activation triggers

Observation Methods: Pros and Cons

Live observation, Audio-video recordings, Interpersonal process recordings

Bringing Mindfulness in to Support Supervisee Skill Development

Centering activities to begin each session, Thought/meditation cards, Breathing exercises

Supervisor/Supervisee Tensions: Not If They Rise Up, But When

Structure versus free reign, Directive versus non-directive, Nurture versus neutrality

Reflectivity: Active Listening Plus

Person of the therapist exercise, Reflection letters, Journalling

When the Supervisee and Supervisor Come from Different Backgrounds

• How the supervisor-supervisee dyad is impacted • Identifying supervisee cultural and contextual background factors • Strategies for increasing awareness of bias • Micro-aggressions • Practice: Having uncomfortable conversations about cultural differences

Supervision via the Group Modality

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

rotecting Your License/Registration and Your Practice

• Competency as a supervisor? • Evaluating supervisee competency • Everything you need to know about: -Standard of care -Informed consent -Boundaries -Privacy versus 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