2 Day Intensive Course: Clinical Supervision: Providing Effective Supervision, Navigating Ethical Issues and Managing Risk

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George Haarman, PsyD, LMFT Related seminars and products

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George B. Haarman, PsyD, LMFT, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 40 years of experience working in a variety of settings, including private practice, youth detention centers, juvenile group homes, child protective services, and juvenile probation. Dr. Haarman completed basic and advanced supervisor training required by the Kentucky Board of Psychology Examiners and maintains approval by the board to act as a supervisor. In his private practice, Dr. Haarman has provided clinical supervision to clinical and counseling practicum students as well as consultation about clinical supervision to psychologists for over 25 years. He is a national speaker on clinical supervision, depression, school refusal, ADHD, emotional disorders in children and adults and the DSM-5®. He is the author of three books: Clinical Supervision: Legal, Ethical, and Risk Management Issues, School Refusal: Children Who Can’t or Won’t Go to School, and Mastering DSM-5®. Dr. Haarman received his doctorate in clinical psychology from Spalding University in 1989. He has been an instructor at Jefferson Community College, Bellarmine University, and Spalding University.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. George Haarman maintains a private practice and is an adjunct professor Spalding University, Jefferson Community College, and Bellarmine University. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. George Haarman is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Kentucky Psychological Association.

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Objectives

1. Develop best practices for providing clinical supervision, including the use of a written supervisory contract and thorough documentation procedures.
2. Analyze models of clinical supervision, including advantages and disadvantages of each.
3. Apply the six building blocks of providing competent supervision.
4. Conduct a self -assessment of your competencies as a supervisor.
5. Demonstrate the use of constructive feedback strategies as they relate to clinical supervision practice.
6. Utilize various observation methods for the purpose of providing ongoing feedback for supervisees to improve their clinical skills.
7. Create a detailed professional development plan for supervisees.
8. Determine standards for identifying and addressing cultural or contextual bias within both the supervisory and the therapeutic relationship and developing “cultural humility”.
9. Use skills, techniques and strategies for supervising diverse populations.
10. Use specific strategies for dealing effectively with an impaired supervisee.
11. Provide timely, clear, descriptive feedback to supervisees using multiple formats, methods and techniques.
12. Analyze the key legal issues and risks involved in being a clinical supervisor, particularly vicarious liability.
13. Articulate the major ethical issues involving supervision including: Competence, due process, informed consent, confidentiality, and multiple/dual relationships.
14. Utilize risk management strategies for supervision.

Outline

• Establish roles and responsibilities < /li>
• How to write a comprehensive Informed Consent Agreement and Supervisory Contract
• Setting clear expectations for supervision
• Documentation: If it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen
• Types of supervision: Individual, group, team, peer, case consultation
• Practice Exercise: Writing a Supervisory contract for Ned Newbie

• 10 myths about clinical supervision
• Supervision versus consultation
• Must-have knowledge, skills and attitude of the competent supervisor
• 10 factors contributing to the “best” and “worst” supervisors
• The Supervisee’s Bill of Rights
• The Building Blocks of Effective Supervision:
  • Competency
  • Diversity
  • Supervisee relationship
  • Professionalism
  • Assessment/evaluation/feedback
• Practice Exercise: Competency-Based Supervisor Self-Assessment

• Administrative versus clinical supervision
• Models of supervision:
  • The “No-Model” model
  • Apprentice-master
  • Expert
  • One-size-fits all
  • Psychotherapy-based
  • Parallel process
  • Interactional
  • Relationship
  • Developmental
  • Holistic

• Legal and ethical implications
• Formats, methods, and techniques
• Formative evaluation versus summative evaluation
• 6 steps for handling a negative evaluation

• Six guiding principles for giving feedback
• How to structure constructive feedback
• Improve your constructive feedback skills
• ”Unhelpful” constructive feedback
• Practice Exercise: Role Play – The Supervisor From Hell Provides Feedback To The Problematic Supervisee
• Practice Exercise: Role Play – The Constructive and Effective Supervisor Meets the Open Supervisee with an Issue

• The 8000 pound elephant in the room
• 20 practical prevention strategies to avoid problems
• Common problems in supervision
• How to assess for supervisee limitations and impairment
• Strategies for dealing with an impaired supervisee
• Impairment and gatekeeping
• How to write a Professional Development Plan
• Practice Exercise: Writing a Performance Improvement Plan for Peter Problematica

• When the supervisor-supervisee dyad is impacted
• Methods for introducing the topic of multicultural differences
• A continuum of cultural competence
• Cultural humility

• Legal primer for mental health practitioners
• Standard of Care for supervision
• Supervisory negligence/malpractice
• Who’s responsible? Direct and vicarious liability
• Ten activities required for ethical supervision
• Core ethical principles
• Supervisory ethical violations
• Major ethical issues related to supervision
  • Competence
  • Due process
  • Informed consent
  • Confidentiality
  • Multiple/dual relationships
  • And more!
• Boundary crossings versus boundary violations
• Sexual misconduct
• Social boundaries: Factors to consider
• Limitations of the research and potential risks

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psychotherapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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