Concepts, Dynamic Processes and the Supervisory Relationship
MPCSWA will be repeating its successful clinical supervision
Concepts, Dynamic Processes & the Supervisory Relationship
with Ellen T. Luepker, MSW, LP, LICSW
Description: The purpose of this 15-session seminar series is to enhance knowledge and skills in clinical supervision. We will review theories that shape clinical supervision and practice, developmental stages of supervisees and of supervisors, differences in learning styles, and issues of cultural diversity as they affect supervision. We will explore key dynamic processes at various stages of supervision such as: assessing learning needs; establishing a supervision contract; creating a holding environment; using self-awareness and self-reflection; understanding the supervisor’s role, power imbalance, professional boundaries, parallel process, transference and counter transference; dealing with affect; managing ambiguity; using supervisee and supervisor process recordings as learning tools; and assisting supervisees toward autonomy. Sessions will include presentations and discussions of articles, hand-outs, and supervisory cases. Since we can expect to experience problems when providing supervision, and learning from our mistakes through consultation with colleagues can help promote our professional growth, participants are invited to share anonymous supervisory case vignettes that illustrate dilemmas in their own practices. For experienced and beginning clinical supervisors in social work, psychiatry, psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy. Seminars are designed to meet MN Board of SW’s supervision training requirements.
Previous Topics
- Core Elements of Clinical Supervision and Stages of Supervisee and Supervisor Development.
- Beginning Stage I: Theories of Learning, Learning Styles and Self-assessment of Supervisee’s and Supervisor’s Respective Learning Styles.
- Beginning Stage II: Rationale & Methods for Crafting Learning Assessment and Contract, Introducing Process Recording, Applying Saari Model.
- Dynamic Issues Affecting the Process of Supervision I: Diversity, Power, and Psychodynamic Perspectives on Supervision.
- Dynamic Issues Affecting the Process of Supervision II: Distinction Between Supervision and Therapy, Responsibility for Supervisee and for Supervisee’s Patient; Modeling Capacity to Sit with Affect and Ambiguity; Clarifying Issues of Boundaries.
- Dynamic Issues Affecting the Process of Supervision III: Impact of Transference and Counter transference on the Supervisory Relationship.
- Supervision as Teaching, Using Words and Concepts as Organizers, and Methods of Teaching Theory Through Process Recording.
- Internalizing Skills and Developing as a Supervisee and Supervisor.
- Learning from our Mistakes.
- Ethical & Legal Responsibilities/Issues in Clinical Supervision-1
- Ethical & Legal Responsibilities/Issues in Clinical Supervision-2
- Clinical Supervision in Context: Impact of Evolving Health Care Changes on Practice Settings, Treatment Models and Professionalism
- Dynamic Processes and the Supervisory Relationship-1
- Dynamic Processes and the Supervisory Relationship-2
- End Stage: Rationale and Methods for Terminating Supervision Well.
For further information and to register:
Contact Ellen Luepker
651.999.0116 or email: luepk004@umn.edu or
Beverly Caruso at bevcaruso@gmail.com
About the presenter: Ellen T. Luepker, MSW, LP, LICSW, Author, Record Keeping in Psychotherapy & Counseling: Protecting Confidentiality & the Professional Relationship (2nd edition 2012); Adjunct Instructor in Psychiatry, U of MN School of Medicine. She maintains a private practice of psychotherapy, consultation and supervision in St. Paul. She received her MSW and Certificate in Clinical Supervision from Smith College and a Bush Foundation Leadership Fellowship in early childhood development at the University of Minnesota. She has practiced in child, adult and family clinical settings and has provided clinical supervision to MSW students, psychology doctoral students, psychiatry residents and to social workers meeting independent clinical licensure requirements. She has authored numerous articles and received awards for her professional contributions to the mental health field.