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

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW & Annya Shapiro, MFT  

Training Description

If you are a supervisor and are supervising unlicensed support providers who are working with system-involved youth and their families, this is an important training for you. We will focus on issues of culture in supervision and also on some legal issues of supervision. Learning will include ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries that support providers need to establish and maintain in their relationships with system involved youth and their families. We will also describe and review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this in order to stay focused on, and most effectively address, the needs of system-involved youth and their families. Lastly, we will also define and address the zone of proximal learning and how we, as supervisors, can best understand and access this zone on behalf of our supervisees. This includes “live” observation of how our supervisees are supporting our youth! All of these things above will be touched upon during Day One and then we will go broader and deeper during Day Two.

Learning Objectives

· Learn the basic requirements of supervisors including new 2022 laws and the ethics that we have to follow.

· Practice how to learn from your supervisee’s feedback how to improve your relationship while maximizing their support of their system-involved youth and families.

· Explore culture in supervision and the importance of how to bring this into the relationship in a sensitive and meaningful manner so that supervisees can replicate this with the system involved youth who they support.

· Examine the importance of countertransference and the need to understand the zone of proximal learning of your supervisees and then, once it is identified, how to access it as part of your supervision so that your supervisee can continue to grow in how they are supporting our youth and families.

Agenda 

DAY ONE:

9–9:30AM   Sign-in, Introductions and Expectations for the day

9:30–10AM  Identifying our many selves: Privileged and Subjugated (group work)

10–10:30AM  Brainstorming and prioritizing our many supervisory challenges.

10:30–11AM  Why we supervise and the supervisory basics in supporting youth and families.

11–11:30AM  Therapeutic and Supervisory Alliances: What are these?

11:30–11:45AM  BREAK (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

11:45AM –12:30PM  Laws and supervision: Breaking down our obligations as supervisors & the basic BBS expectations.

12:30–1PM  Small Group debriefing of content and Large Group Questions and Answers.

1–1:30PM  Boundary considerations in Supervision

1:30–2PM  LUNCH (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

2–2:45PM  The Zone of Proximal Learning: What is it and how do we access it in supervision?

2:45–3:30PM  Culture, Dr. Hardy clip and Small group work

3:30–3:45PM  BREAK (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

3:45–4:30PM  Countertransference and the supervisor’s obligation: more small group work

4:30–5PM  The LASS feedback form and Review of Tasks to try before next week

5–5:30PM  Conclusions and ADJOURNMENT

DAY TWO

9–9:30AM   Sign-in, Introductions and Expectations for the day

9:30–10AM  Review from last week’s take aways and the Tasks that were assigned.

10–10:30AM  Going deeper into last week’s supervisory challenges and identifying new ones?

10:30–11AM  Refresher regarding: Why we supervise, issues specific to supporting youth and families, the Therapeutic Alliance and the Supervisory Alliance elements.

11–11:30AM  Going deeper with PCOMS and the LASS!

11:30–11:45AM  BREAK (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

11:45AM–12:30PM  Going deeper regarding the task of checking out the BBS FAQ’s, the 2022 New laws – did you do this? What did you find out? What new questions have come up?

12:30–1PM  Supervisory Liability and Accountability: Pairing exercise about challenging supervisees?

1–1:30PM  Digging deeper into boundary considerations in Supervision!

1:30–2PM  LUNCH (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

2–2:30PM  The Zone of Proximal Learning review: Did anyone do this task of supporting a supervisee on Zoom?

2:30–3PM  Live supervision practice/role play with phones and earpieces.

3–3:30PM  Did anyone do the task on culture from last week?

3:30–3:45  BREAK  (CEUs will not be offered for this time)

3:45–4PM  Watch Hardy videos on race and privilege

4–4:45PM  Group work to go deeper into culture/countertransference/challenging supervision issues and then share with larger group.

4:45–5:15PM  The LASS feedback form: did anyone try this task from last week?

5:15–5:30PM  Check out and 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 who are being served by our continuums of care. Dr. Parkinson’s emphasis is on the importance of family engagement and the healing of traumatic attachment ruptures. Pamela is also a certified PCOMS evidence-based practicetrainer. She currently works as a child/family consultant to CBO’s in the Bay Area and Pamela has worked in level 14 residential, 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 2-day 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.  

Day One of this Course meets the qualifications for (7.5) 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.