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

Pamela Parkinson, Ph.D., LCSW

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 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 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.

Learning Objectives

· Learn the basic requirements of supervisors

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

· 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 system involved youth that they support.

Agenda 

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

9:45 – 10:30AM Brainstorming of supervisory challenges.

10:30 – 11:00AM Breaking down our obligations as supervisors and the basic BBS expectations.

11:00 – 11:15AM   BREAK (CEUs will not be issued at this time)

11:15 – 12:00PM  Challenges of clinical supervision and overcoming these.

12:00 – 12:30PM Small group work: Debrief and sharing

12:30 – 1:00PM Lunch (CEUs will not be issued at this time)

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

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

2:45 – 3:00PM BREAK (CEUs will not be issued at this time)

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

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

4:15 – 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 who are receiving services in our continuums of care. Dr. Parkinson’s emphasis is on the importance of family engagement and the healing traumatic attachment ruptures. Pamela is also a certified PCOMS evidence-based practice trainer. She currently works as a child/family consultant and trainer 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, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.