Addressing the Challenges of Supervision in Social Service and Mental Health Provision

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW

Training Description

Supervision presents unique challenges to supervisors working in both social services and mental health settings with system involved youth. In the course participants will learn how to identify and address: difficult issues which commonly occur in supervision; the impact of vicarious traumatization on supervisees and supervisors; and time management and paperwork issues for both supervisees and supervisors. They will also learn how to teach supervisees to integrate theory in their intervention planning and implementation.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Identify and address difficult problems in supervision in both social service and mental health settings;
• Address and prevent vicarious traumatization in both the supervisee and the supervisor working with system involved youth;
• Integrate a theoretic understanding of cases in their discussion of case formulation and treatment planning;
• Support supervisees to complete paperwork correctly in a timely manner.

Agenda

9:00-9:15 Introductions

9:15-10:30 Difficult Supervisory Issues

10:30-10:45 BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

10:45-12:30 Supervision trauma work and addressing vicarious traumatization

12:30-1:30 LUNCH (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

1:30-3:00 Teaching Supervisees to apply theory to practice

3:00-3:15 BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

3:15-4:15 Supervising Time Management and Timely Completion of Paperwork

4:15 - 4:30  Wrap-up and Evauations

4:30  Adjourn

Meet Our Trainer

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, has supervised mental-health staff and interns in professional settings since 1996. She is a CAMFT-certified supervisor and has a Certificate in Advanced Clinical Supervision from Smith College School for Social Work. Since 2000, she has taught courses in Supervision including Law and Ethics in Clinical Supervision. She also teaches courses in diagnoses, vicarious traumatization, energy psychology, safety in the workplace and clearing blocks to completing paperwork.

This course meets the qualifications for (6) BBS CEUs for LCSWs and MFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.