Supervision In Stressful Times In Work with System involved Children and Families

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW

Training Description

In this unprecedented time, staff and supervisors are challenged in new and unexpected ways. In the class, supervisors will learn how to:

• Identify and address stress and vicarious traumatization in their staff;
• Address time management and work prioritizing balanced with challenges of working from home with system involved youth;
• Understand and monitor ethical concerns of telehealth when working with system involved youth; and
• Intervene with supervisees who are working with system involved youth and present challenging behaviors

Learning Objective

• Assess supervisees level of stress and vicarious traumatization (VT) to determine at least 3 interventions are needed to address the impact of stress and VT;
• Utilize at least 3 interventions to address time management and work prioritization difficulties in staff working with system involved youth;
• Teach staff how to effectively and ethically provide telehealth services to system involved youth;
• Identify and address at least 3 challenges supervisees may present with in their work with system involved youth.

Agenda 

9:30am–9:45am Intros and Logistics

9:45am–11:00am Managing Staff Stress and Vicarious Traumatization

11:00am–11:15am Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

11:15am–12:45pm Time Management and Prioritizing Work Tasks

12:45pm–1:15pm Lunch (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

1:15pm–2:15pm Ethical Telehealth and Boundaries When Working from Home

2:15pm–2:30pm Break (CEUs will not be issued for this time)

2:30pm–4:30pm Challenging Supervisees

4:30pm Adjourn

Meet Our Trainer

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, is a clinical social worker who has worked in HMOs, public agencies, and private practice as both a mental-health provider and a supervisor for over thirty years. She is a CAMFT certified supervisor and has a Certificate in Advanced Supervision from Smith College School for Social Work. She has taught courses in DSM-5, clinical supervision, law and ethics, childhood psychopathology, time management, vicarious traumatization and energy psychology at universities, conferences, and mental-health agencies.

This course meets the qualifications for (6.00) 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.