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Outline

How to improve the initial supervision sessions.

• Establish roles and responsibilities
• How to write a comprehensive Informed Consent Agreement and Supervisory Contract
• Set clear expectations for supervision
• Who supervises the supervisor?
• Documentation: If it’s not in writing, it didn’t happen

Clinical supervision models can be used to find the right fit.

• Psychodynamic
• Social role
• Developmental
• Psychotherapy-based
• Attachment-focused
• Practice: Developing your own model of supervision

The goal of the alliance is to build a foundation for success.

• Overcome supervisee resistance, anxiety and transference
• Manage power dynamics and counter-transference
• Attend to attachment ruptures in the relationship
• Self-disclosure: Why, when, and for whom
• Practice: Supervisory relationship strengthening techniques

There are techniques and strategies for effective supervision.

• Know Yourself: Self-Reflection Builds Supervisor Identity
  • Clinical Supervisor Genogram
  • Engage in reflectivity
  • When to seek your own supervision
• Give Effective Feedback: Having Hard Conversations
  • Summative versus formative feedback
  • The ratio you must know to give corrective feedback
  • Specific counselor interventions
  • Explore the inner world of the supervisee
  • Activation triggers
• Observation Methods: Pros and Cons
  • Live observation
  • Audio-video recordings
  • Interpersonal process recordings
• Mindfulness Practices to Support Supervisees
  • Centering activities to begin each session
  • Thought/meditation cards
  • Breathing exercises
• Illustrate Supervisee/Client Interactions
  • Parts maps
  • Diagrams
• Resolve Supervisor/Supervisee Tensions
  • Structure versus free reign
  • Directive versus non-directive
  • Nurture versus neutrality
• Reflectivity: More Than Active Listening
  • Person of the therapist exercise
  • Reflection letters
  • Journaling

Proactive treatment of cultural differences is cultural competence.

• When the supervisor-supervisee dyad is impacted
• Methods for identifying supervisee cultural and contextual background factors
• Strategies for increasing awareness of bias
• Ways to identify and manage micro-aggressions
• Practice: Having uncomfortable conversations about cultural differences

Group supervision.

• When to utilize groups
• Advantages of a group setting
• Tips for setting up group norms
• Methods for strengthening the supervisory alliance in group
• Practice: Role plays of group scenarios

Protect yourself, protect your license.

• Know your code: ACES/ACA, APA, ASWB/NASW, AAMFT
• Are you a competent supervisor?
• How to evaluate supervisee competency
• Everything you need to know about:
  • Standard of care
  • Informed consent
  • Boundaries
  • Privacy vs confidentiality
  • Dual relationships
  • Liability: Direct and vicarious
  • Duty to Warn
  • Social media/use of technology
  • and more!
• Decision tree relevant to clinical supervision
• Practice: Handling an impaired supervisee

Faculty

Lois Ehrmann

The Individual and Family Choices program

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Lois Ehrmann is a psychologist. A trauma-informed and sensitive clinician works with individuals and families who suffer from trauma, abuse and attachment issues. She is the founder of The Individual and Family CHOICES Program, a trauma-informed counseling center in State College, PA, that has been providing cutting-edge trauma-informed therapy for over 10 years. She co-owned a dual diagnosis outpatient counseling program for over 18 years. She has been in clinical practice for over 30 years, specializing in trauma and attachment, and has been a licensed professional counselor for 22 years.

Lois is a Certified Trauma Treatment Specialist, a Certified Clinician in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing, and a Certified Internal Family Systems Clinician. She has introduced the IFS model to the children and families she works with, as well as groups of parents of traumatized children, and to professional healers who work with traumatised families. An approved clinical supervisor, Lois is a registered ATTA Clinician. She is a trained clinical hypnotist.

Lois is a sought-after trainer both locally and nationally and is also an assistant professor in counselor education and supervision. She served on the board of directors of the organization that she presented for many years. Each year, Lois presents at the Internal Family Systems Conference about the use of IFS with children and families struggling with attachment issues.

Lois is the co-author of a book on best practices in attachment therapy and has self-published books for children and their parents. She was the lead researcher on the development of the Internal Family Systems Adherence Scale.

Speaker disclosures.

Lois Ehrmann is the founder and executive director of The Individual and Family CHOICES Program. She is paid by PESI, Inc.

Lois Ehrmann has no relevant non-financial relationship.