Advanced Clinical Supervision: An Integrative Approach to Collaborative Practice – 6 hours

This advanced course is designed for clinical supervisors who identify as experienced counselors and therapists, and have received previous training in supervision. The course is based on an assumption of the need for ongoing supervision, particularly related to difficult psychotherapeutic issues. Clinical conceptualization of participant client cases, legal and ethical concerns, and holistic self-care are of primary focus. Employing the idea of "self as tool," the structure of the class is founded on integrative psychodynamic principles, interpersonal neurobiology processes, and collaborative practice. Specifically, issues relevant to the therapeutic alliance, transference, and therapeutic impasse are be addressed incorporating concepts of attunement, alignment, resonance, and attachment.

Advanced Supervision for Social Workers: Identifying and Preventing Vicarious Trauma – 6 hours

This advanced workshop is designed for supervisors who have already fulfilled their initial 6-hour training requirement and are seeking their five-year renewal in order to maintain status as a supervisor of LCSWs. The course may also be used by LCSWs to satisfy the six-hour training requirement for clinical social worker supervision, and takes seasoned clinical supervisors into a deeper awareness of their potency to mitigate stress and burn-out within the supervisory relationship.

Working with high-conflict, multi-problem, and economically disadvantaged clients can be inspiring for clinicians but also makes them vulnerable to exhaustion. To prevent vicarious trauma, clinical supervisors need strengths-based tools to mitigate the impact of the daily interface with these clients. Learn specific strategies to strengthen clinicians committed to doing this work. Using art and experiential activities, supervisors learn to identify beliefs indicative of vicarious trauma as well as relational strategies to help clinicians modify those cognitive schemas.

Clinical Supervision - 30 hours

This course presents conceptual and empirical literature on counseling supervision, including models, approaches/techniques, relationship and process issues, and ethical and legal considerations. It is designed to meet the 30-hour requirement for licensed professional counselor or marriage and family therapist clinical supervision training in the state of Oregon. The first day provides a comprehensive overview, which may be used toward the six-hour training requirement for clinical social worker supervision.

Supervision for Social Workers - 6 hours

This one-day workshop is designed for LCSWs who intend to provide clinical supervision only for MSWs seeking LCSW licensure. LCSWs intending to supervise for LPC/LMFT licensure must take the 30-hour Clinical Supervision course.

This workshop overviews theories of clinical supervision, related empirical research, legal and ethical issues, and provides practical experiences as time allows. Special topics covered include research in social work and clinical roles in supervision, including administrative roles and professional areas of focus. The instructor also reviews application procedures for Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) credentialing.