Clinical Supervision (15 Hour) to Improve Outcomes for System Involved Youth

Dr. Lisa Cohen Bennett

Training Description

This training includes lecture and group discussion using handouts, articles and other resources to learn or revisit clinical supervision tools and techniques which can be used to help clinicians improve outcomes for system involved youth. The Board of Behavioral Sciences requires specific topic be covered in this 15-hour training including forms for supervision use and why, how and whom we supervise. This two-day training is specifically geared for those supervising Associate Social Workers (ASWs) working with system-involved youth. The training is also suitable for those supervising Associate Marriage and Family Therapists (AMFTs), Associate Professional Clinical Counselors (APCCs) and Psychology Interns.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will share important forms used for clinical supervision with clinicians working with system-involved youth;

· Participants will examine goals of supervision; and

· Participants will practice supervision techniques through role plays and discussion.

Agenda 

Day 1 (12/14/21):

9:15-9:45am  Introductions

9:45-10:00am  Overview of two-day training

10:00-11:30am  Read aloud and discuss many forms required by the Board of Behavioral Sciences

(BBS) for clinical supervision of the three BBS associates (ASW, AMFT, APCC)

11:30-11:45am  Break (No CEUs willbe offered during this time)

11:45am-12:30pm  Finish going over forms, including law changes from 2019 and 2021 plus COVID

information for supervision

12:30-1:30pm  Using white board and discussion, examine trauma template for system-involved

youth and families, why we supervise, who we serve and what we want to know

about supervisees.

1:30-2:00pm  LUNCH (No CEUs willbe offered during this time)

2:00-4:00pm  Self Study and discussion regarding participants’ experiences with supervision and

what skills they bring

4:00-4:15pm  Break (No CEUs willbe offered during this time)

4:15-5:45pm  Roles plays and discussion regarding possible challenges that can arise during

supervision

Day 2 (12/16/21):

9:15-9:45am  Anything left over from Day 1

9:45-11:15am  Common challenges with Law and Ethics for Social Workers

11:15-11:30am  Break (No CEUs willbe offered during this time)

11:30am-1:30pm  Cultural competence, humility, identity and equity

1:30-2:00pm  LUNCH (No CEUs willbe offered during this time)

2:00-4:00pm  Describe and discuss how external stressors, transference, counter-transference and

secondary trauma can get in the way of supervision; particularly when working with

system-involved youth and families. Including a self study and group discussion.

4:00-4:15pm  Break (No CEUs willbe offered during this time)

4:15-5:45pm  Self care tools and techniques for self and supervisee

Meet Our Trainer

Dr Lisa Cohen Bennett has been training Foster Parents, Probation Officers, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Social Workers, Teachers and Group Home Staff around the country and in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than twenty years. She has worked in a variety of settings with Severely Emotionally Disturbed Youth and Families including Residential Treatment, Hospital, Juvenile Hall, Runaway Shelter and County Mental Health for over thirty years. Dr. Bennett also currently has a private practice in Lafayette, CA. where she specializes in trauma.

This course meets the qualifications for (15) BBS CEUs for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.