Lois Ehrmann – Intensive 2 Day Course, Clinical Supervision-Confidently Address Difficult

This recording digs deep into the supervisory process, answers your questions about risk and liability, and prepares you to master the art and science of clinical supervision.

Lois Ehrmann – Intensive 2 Day Course, Clinical Supervision-Confidently Address Difficult

You’ve worked hard to develop your clinical skills and advance your career. Now you’ve been promoted to clinical supervisor and you’re excited for the opportunity. But being a good clinician doesn’t guarantee you’ll be a competent supervisor. Are you aware of your legal and ethical responsibilities? How do you deal with an incompetent supervisor? Which supervision model is right for you?

Or perhaps you’ve been a clinical supervisor for a while now and you’re looking for ways to breathe new life into your practice. Helping young professionals find their voice has been gratifying and rewarding, but you’re looking for fresh ideas to incorporate into your already established methods.

This recording digs deep into the supervisory process, answers your questions about risk and liability, and prepares you to master the art and science of clinical supervision.

This workshop is designed to help you confidently and proactively address some of the most challenging issues facing clinical supervisors. You’ll learn:

• How to make a solid informed consent agreement for supervision
• There are ways to build the supervision alliance in order to avoid common problems
• Techniques for providing uncomfortable or difficult feedback
• Strategies to manage an unqualified or impaired supervisor
• How to protect your license. Avoid common pitfalls which can lead to legal or ethical dilemmas

This recording will give you tools and techniques that you can implement immediately into your supervision practice.

1. Establish best practices for clinical supervision. These include the use a written informed consent agreement and meticulous documentation.
2. Compare and contrast different models of clinical supervision to determine how they can be used in clinical supervision.
3. Summarize the four main characteristics of a supervisory alliance that fosters professional development in the supervisee.
4. You will need to be able to perform specific procedures in order for the supervisory alliance to fix a rupture.
5. Create a clinical supervision diagram to gain insight into the professional identity and motivations of clinical supervisors.
6. Demonstrate the usage of formative and summative feedback strategies when they are related to clinical supervision practices.
7. Use different observation methods to provide guidance and education for supervisees.
8. Methods for managing contextual and cultural factors that could negatively affect the supervisor are developed.-Supervise the dyad.
9. In both the supervisory relationship and the therapeutic relationship, establish standards for recognizing and dealing with cultural or contextual bias.
10. To facilitate professional and learning, implement strategies to strengthen the supervision alliance within a group supervision setting.
11. Use at least four tools for supervision to assess the competency of a supervisee within a clinical setting.
12. Assess the legal and ethical ramifications of the clinical supervisor role and learn how to minimize them.

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Getting Started: How To Optimize Your Initial Supervision Sessions

• Establish roles and responsibilities
• How to make a comprehensive Informed Consent Agreement.
• Clear expectations should be set for supervision
• Who supervises the supervisor
• Documentation: If it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen

Models Clinical Supervision: The Right Fit for You and Your Setting

• Psychodynamic
• Social role
• Developmental
• Psychotherapy-Based
• Attachment-Focus
• Practice: Develop your own supervision model

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

• Be able to overcome anxiety, fear and transference from supervisees
• Control power dynamics and counter-Transference
• Pay attention to attachment breaks in a relationship
• Self-Disclosure: Who, what, when and why?
• Practice: Techniques to strengthen supervisory relationships

Techniques and strategies for effective supervision

• Know Yourself-Reflection builds supervisor identity
  • Clinical Supervisor Genogram
  • Refrain from judging
  • When you should seek your own supervision
• Give effective feedback: having difficult conversations
  • Summative versus formative feedback
  • To give corrective feedback, you need to know the ratio
  • Counselor interventions
  • Discover the inner world of your supervisee
  • Activation triggers
• Observation Methods: The Pros and the Cons
  • Live observation
  • Audio-Video recordings
  • Interpersonal process recordings
• Mindfulness Exercises to Support Supervisees
  • Start each session with a centering activity
  • Cards for meditation/thought
  • Breathing exercises
• Illustrate Supervisor/Client Interactions
  • Parts maps
  • Diagrams
• Resolve Supervisor/Supervisee Tensions
  • Free reign versus structure
  • Directive versus non-Directive
  • Nurture versus neutrality
• Reflectivity: More than Active Listening
  • Exercise for the patient of the therapist
  • Reflection letters
  • Journaling

Cultural Competence: Proactive Treating Cultural Differences

• The supervisor-The supervisee dyad has been impacted
• Methods of identifying contextual and cultural background factors in supervisees
• Strategies to raise awareness about bias
• Methods to manage and identify microorganisms-Aggression
• Practice: Have uncomfortable conversations about cultural difference

Group Supervision

• When should groups be used
• Benefits of working in a group
• Here are some tips for creating group norms
• Methods to consolidate the group’s supervisory alliance
• Practice: Group scenarios and role plays

Legal/Ethical Questions: Protect Yourself and Your License

• Your code: ACES/ACA APA ASWB/NASW AAMFT
• Are you a competent supervisor?
• How to assess supervisee competence
• All the information you need:
  • Standard of care
  • Informed consent
  • Boundaries
  • Privacy vs. Confidentiality
  • Dual relationships
  • Liability: Vicarious and direct
  • Duty to Warn
  • Use of technology/social media
  • You can find out more about it!
• Decision tree for clinical supervision
• Practice: Handling an impaired supervisee

Here’s what you’ll get in Lois Ehrmann – Intensive 2 Day Course, Clinical Supervision-Confidently Address Difficult

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