Issues in Supervision One and Two

The four days will familiarize participants with current models of supervision. A thorough discussion of five dynamics of supervision is presented. Special issues including context, culture, gender, race, class, financial, legal and ethical considerations will be discussed including literature reviews and study findings. This is an excellent program in fulfillment of the supervision content requirement for those seeking AAMFT Approved Supervisor designation. This program is additionally useful for any counseling professional who supervises staff that provides psychological counseling in mental health, substance abuse, criminal justice, and domestic violence settings. The first two-day workshop meets the Florida regulatory requirements (*F.A.C. 64B4-6.0025 effective 2/1/2000) for licensed mental health professionals who provide supervision to candidates for F.S. 491 licensure, and for any others who wish to enhance supervision skills in professional practice. The last two days of this seminar provides a more advanced discourse on important supervision issues. This includes objectives that are not covered in the first two days and provides more in-depth instruction on several topics. Participants can expect to refine their model of supervision and address issues of supervision delivery in a more specific fashion. Discussions of structure, contracting, learning assessment and planning will be developed. Various evaluation and observation methodologies will be presented. Learners will spend a significant portion of the offering in experiences designed to elucidate the isomorphic elements in supervision, managing problems in supervision, and managing the supervisory relationship. The responsibilities of supervising professionals for AAMFT clinical membership will be presented. State requirements for supervisors will be referenced where they exist.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to describe the axioms of several models of supervision.

2. Participants will be able to identify their therapeutic style and compatible supervision model

3. Participants will articulate their supervisory model and be able to discuss various dynamics of supervision and therapy consistent with this model.

4. Participants will be able to discuss special issues including context, culture, ethnicity, gender, evaluation and legal and ethical considerations of supervision.

5. Participants will demonstrate elements of their supervisory model and style.

6. Participants will articulate and refine written description of personal model of supervision, drawn from existing models of supervision and from preferred styles of therapy.

7. Participants will structure supervision, solve problems, and implement supervisory interventions within a range of supervisory modalities (Ex.; live, and videotaped supervision)

   a. Develop and negotiate effective supervision contracts

   b. Implement learning and competency assessment and planning

   c. Develop and utilize evaluation and observation methodologies

8. Participants will develop competencies in observing and intervening in isomorphic process to

   a. Facilitate the co-evolving therapist-client and supervisor-therapist-client relationships.

   b.Evaluate and identify problems in therapist-client and supervisor-therapist-client relationships.

9. Participants will be able to discuss the requirements and procedures for supervising applicants for

   a. AAMFT Clinical Membership

   b. State supervision issues

   Total CE Credits: 30.0
   Who should attend?

   Psychologists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Clinical Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Agency clinical supervision staff, Addiction counseling supervisors, Employee Assistance Supervisors, Hospital Social Services Directors, Other Supervision professionals in mental health, behavioral health, and related fields.

Training Agenda:

Hours One-Four:

Overview of history of supervision, supervision definitions, models of supervision, Theoretical orientation, and Supervision philosophy

Hour Five–Eight: Discussion of supervision dynamics including Isomorphism, Power, Shared Meaning, Dual Roles, and Trust

Hour Nine-Twelve: Discussion of issues and study findings re: context, culture, ethics, legal and regulatory, financial, risk management, class, race, gender, sexual orientation

Hour Thirteen-Sixteen: Participants share outline for philosophy statement and present elements of their supervisory model and style.

Hours Seventeen-Twenty

Module One:

Supervision philosophy statement and services description enhancement and development work groups

Hour Twenty0ne-Twenty-three

Module Two:

Contracting tips; completing learning needs assessments and developing

learning plans, evaluation methodologies, and observation strategies, other important

structuring aspects in supervision

Hour Twenty-four-Twenty-seven

Module Three:

Isomorphic processes in supervision, problems in the supervisory relationship, with

supervisors, with supervisees. Style, context, cultural and gender challenges, managing

levels of complexity in the therapist– client and therapist – client - supervisor system

Hour Twenty-eight-Thirty

Requirements and procedures for supervising applicants for AAMFT Clinical Membership required supervision issues – Florida specific

state

Recommended Text

This collection of articles from the last twelve years of the popular Supervision Bulletin newsletter is an excellent tool for supervisors and supervisors-in-training. Sections on models and philosophies of supervision, supervision structure and techniques, diversity, ethical and legal issues, and supervision-of-supervision are included.

Instructor: Karen Albig Smith, MAT, LMFT, CAP. MAC, Approved Supervisor AAMFT

Methods: Lecture, discussion, survey and discussion exercises with handout