Supervision: Being the Best Supervisor that you can Be to Support our System Involved Youth

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW and Annya Shapiro, LMFT

Training Description

If you are a supervisor and are supervising those who support system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and on ethical boundaries in supervision. We will show how the boundaries of supervision parallel the boundaries that support establishing and maintaining relationships with system-involved youth and their families. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

· Explain at least 2 basic requirements of supervisors;

· Build at least 2 skills to help supervisors learn from supervisee feedback and improve relationships while maximizing support of system-involved youth.

· Explain 1 reason why it is important to discuss culture in supervision in a sensitive and meaningful manner.

Agenda

9:30 – 9:45 AM   Sign-in and Introductions

9:45 – 10:00 AM Small groups to look at our privileged and subjugated selves.

10:00 – 10:30 AM Brainstorming of supervisory challenges and group work to discuss these.

10:30 – 11:15 AM Breaking down our obligations as supervisors and the basic BBS expectations.

11:15 – 11:30 AM   BREAK (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

11:30 – 12:15 PM  Challenges of clinical supervision and overcoming these.

12:15 – 12:45 PM Small group work: Debrief and sharing

12:45 – 1:15 PM Lunch (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

1:15 – 1:45 PM The Zone of Proximal learning and how to support your supervisee via “live” observation.

1:45 – 2:15 PM Cultural challenges to the supervisory relationship: the parallel process to service delivery.

2:15 – 2:45 PM Group work: Identifying appropriate boundaries in the supervisory relationship.

2:45 – 3:00 PM BREAK (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

3:00 – 3:45 PM Small group work: What does countertransference and “our stuff” look like in supervision for both of us?

3:45 – 4:15 PM Practicing soliciting feedback from supervisees on some of the most challenging topics: how?

4:15 – 4:30 PM ADJOURNMENT

Meet Our Trainer

Pamela Parkinson, PhD, LCSW, is a clinical psychologist and clinical social worker, whose specialty area is working with youth and their families being served by our continuums of care with an emphasis on the importance of family engagement and the healing of traumatic attachment ruptures. Dr. Parkinson is also a certified Partners for Change Outcome Management Systems (PCOMS) evidence-based practice trainer. She currently works as a child/family consultant to Community Based Organizations (CBO’s) in the Bay Area and Pamela has worked in level 14 residential, Non-Public Schools (NPS), hospitals, and a variety of community-based settings including outpatient clinics, schools, diversion, kinship, etc.

Annya Shapiro, LMFT | Executive Director, Daly City Youth Health Center:  Annya, LMFT, joined DCYHC as Director of Behavioral Health in 2020 and has dedicated over 15 years to providing youth and families with trauma-informed mental health support services. Annya is passionate about family work and training clinicians to provide the best possible mental health care for the most vulnerable members of our community. Annya’s commitment to community mental health is evident in her innovative and collaborative approach to identifying and meeting the needs of the communities she serves. She believes that lasting mental health is best achieved when healing and support is extended beyond the individual to families, schools, and communities.  Annya has been promoted to Executive Director of DCYHC but continues to support the center with clinical supervision and training.

This course meets the qualifications for (6.0) BBS CE Hours 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.