Clinical Supervision: Being the Best Supervisor that you can Be!

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW

Training Description

If you are a clinical supervisor and are supervising unlicensed clinicians, working with youth and their families in our continuum of care, who are accumulating their hours towards licensure, this is an important training for you.

We will focus on some of the requirements of the BBS and on issues of culture in supervision and on ethical boundaries in supervision and how this parallels boundaries in the supervisee/client relationship. We will also review the relevance of countertransference in the supervisory relationship and how to help supervisees identify this.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the basic BBS requirements of supervisors regarding associate clinicians.
• Practice how to learn from your supervisee’s feedback how to improve your relationship while maximizing their support of their clients.
• Explore culture in supervision and the importance of how to bring this into the relationship in a sensitive and meaningful manner.

Agenda

9:30am-9:45am: Sign-in and Introductions

9:45am-10:00am: Brainstorming of supervisory challenges.

10:00am-11:00am: Breaking down our obligations as supervisors and the basic BBS expectations.

11:00am-11:15am: BREAK  (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

11:15am-11:45am: Challenges of clinical supervision and overcoming these.

11:45am-12:30pm: Small group work: Debrief and sharing

12:30pm-1:00pm: Lunch (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

1:00pm-2:15pm: Cultural challenges to the supervisory relationship: the parallel process to service delivery.

2:15pm-2:45pm: Group work: Identifying appropriate boundaries in the supervisory relationship.

2:45pm-3:00pm: BREAK (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

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

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

4:15pm-4:30pm: Wrapping up

4:30pm:  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 with an emphasis on the importance of family relational attachment. Dr. Parkinson is also a certified PCOMS evidence-based practice trainer. 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.

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.