Expert Reflections on Navigating Ethical and Clinical Challenges in Supervision
Fulfills requirement: Supervision
Some of the content in this course is contained in other courses.
How do expert supervisors think about supervision and how best to navigate its common ethical and clinical challenges? This advanced beginner/intermediate course presents seven experts’ reflections on a variety of topics in supervision. After covering the basics of what supervision is and how it is distinct from mentoring, consultation, and psychotherapy, experts from different training backgrounds and experiences describe supervisors’ numerous ethical obligations and the complexities of establishing appropriate boundaries and making ethical decisions. Content consists of six interviews and two presentations (all offered in both audio and written formats).
Educational Objectives
This course will teach the participant to
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Describe supervisors’ ethical obligations to supervisees, clients, the profession, and the community.
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Identify the roles of supervisors.
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Discuss ethical and clinical issues involved in boundaries within supervision.
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Describe the steps to ethical decision-making in supervision.
Syllabus
Part One – General Reflections on Supervision
- How supervision is distinct from mentoring, consultation, and psychotherapy
- Qualities of effective supervision
- Key ethical issues in supervision
- Stages of supervision
- Supervisors’ ethical obligations to supervisees, supervisees’ clients, profession, and community
- Supervisors’ role in acculturation of supervisee to mental health profession
- Roles of a supervisor
- Evaluative
- Skills training
- Developing supervisees’ insights into self
- Protection of supervisee’s clients
- Who you are makes a difference
- Optimal qualities and characteristics of the trainee
- Optimal qualities and characteristics of the supervisor
- How you do it makes a difference
- Basic supervisor competencies
- Supervision styles – didactic, role modeling, experiential
- Developing supervision: supervision changes as supervision changes
- Best practices for supervision
- Case report versus behavioral demonstration
- Orientation-driven supervision
- Diversity training
Part Two – Navigating Ethical and Clinical Issues in Supervision
Reflections on boundaries in supervision
- Boundary crossings versus boundary violations
- Dual and multiple relationships
- Self-disclosure
- Gifts
- Touch
- Out-of-office experiences and accidental encounters
Reflections on ethical requirements of the supervisor
- Record keeping
- Regular schedule
- Assuming liability for both supervisee and supervisee’s clients
- Professional mental health associations’ rules and regulations for supervisors
Ethics in the practicum and internship
- Changes in clinical supervision over time
- Depth and scope of ethics training in graduate studies
- How to evaluate the ethical competence of supervisees
- Critical aspects of clinical supervision
Ethical Decision-Making in Supervision
- Steps to ethical decision-making
- Ethical decision-making associated with boundaries in therapy and supervision
- Seven steps to ethical decision-making
- Questions that arise during supervisory process