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This course provides 45 hours of training in clinical supervision. The course meets the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy educational requirements for Professional Counselors (LPCs and LPCCs) and exceeds requirements for Alcohol & Drug Counselors who intend to seek the approved-supervisor credential. The course does NOT meet requirements for the AAMFT approved-supervisor credential, as only courses provided directly by the AAMFT meet those requirements. This course meets on Zoom and includes additional assignments to be completed online.
The course covers major models of clinical supervision; development and maintenance of the supervisor-supervisee relationship; ethical and legal aspects in clinical supervision; cultural competence in clinical supervision; and structuring, intervention, and evaluation practices in clinical supervision.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will: 1. Distinguish the central role of clinical supervision in providing superior clinical services through improving client welfare, ensuring informed consent and honoring client rights. 2. Distinguish factors that generate positive supervisory relationships from their inception, including informed consent for supervision, management of expectations, and appropriate professional boundaries. 3. Demonstrate understanding of the ethical, legal, advocacy and gatekeeping responsibilities of clinical supervisors. 4. Assess power dynamics in the supervisory relationship and consider issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. 5. Demonstrate commitment to cross-cultural responsiveness in all supervisory relationships. 6. Generate, and demonstrate commitment to, fulfillment of key supervisory responsibilities, to include ensuring informed consent for supervision, completing and referencing the supervision contract, modeling ethics and boundaries, and serving as a gatekeeper for the counseling profession. 7. Articulate a personal model of clinical supervision, drawn from existing models of supervision and preferred styles of therapy and supervision.
Required text: Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision (6th Edition) (What’s New in Counseling) 6th Edition By Janine M. Bernard (Author), Rodney K. Goodyear (Author) · Publisher: Pearson; 6 edition (January 22, 2018)· ISBN-13: 9780134790282· ISBN-13: 9780134752518
Certificates of completion will be awarded upon final evaluation of the course distributed by Adler.
The course will meet 5 times starting Friday September 16th, Friday September 23rd, Friday September 30th, Friday October 7th and Friday October 14th from 9:00am to 12:00pm/noon central time.
The 45-hour CE training will be as follows:
15 hours = in class time
13 hours= required readings
5 hours= survey/quiz at the end of class each week
4 hours= case studies
8 hours= class assignments
In addition to attending the 5 course Fridays, participants will be required to schedule a one-hour meeting outside of the course time with a small group comprised of other course participants for consultation the first three weeks of the course (the weeks of Sept. 16, 23, 30th, 2022). No outside consultation meetings will be required the last two weeks of the course (the weeks of October 7 & 14, 2022).
Please note, there will be a final APA formatted paper that complies the learned information throughout the course applied to each participant’s own clinical theoretical style related to clinical supervision philosophy. There will also be a final assignment to develop Supervision Documents that are required as part of future clinical supervision, both assignments to be completed by midnight the final course date.
Brittany Hamann, PsyD, LPCC (she/her) is a doctoral level psychologist and a licensed professional clinical counselor serving greater rural Minnesota in private practice. She received a doctorate degree in counseling psychology from Saint Mary’s University in Minneapolis, MN and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the Minnesota School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University. She has practiced counseling in many levels of care including inpatient psychiatric units, residential treatment, intensive outpatient care and rural health care. Dr. Hamann’s doctoral research titled “Dismissing a Supervisee: The experience of the clinical supervisor” examined the experiences of clinical supervisors who had dismissed a supervisee who was also a student. The focus of this work examined the decision-making process and their overall experiences. A Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy Approved Clinical Supervisor, Brittany has been involved in clinical supervision practice, research, and has taught graduate level courses in best practice clinical supervision.