Advanced Supervision in Mental Health Care

Supervisors in mental health care are tasked with being supervisees’ professional support and inspiration, while also serving as a critical monitor of care and professional gatekeeper. This course addresses advanced issues in mental health supervision, including how supervisors can discuss and address supervisees’ personal values and their impacts on clients, specific techniques to accomplish several supervision tasks, how to document supervision, and how to create a process by which supervisees can safely and effectively evaluate their supervisor.

6 Hours CE. Recorded Video Format (non-interactive)

ESTIMATED COURSE LENGTH: 6 hours 

CE CREDITS:6.00 continuing education/contact hours for social workers, psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists

TARGET AUDIENCE: Mental Health Practitioners

LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Intermediate

PREREQUISITE(S): None

INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD: Recorded video format (non-interactive)

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Closed captioning of audio components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com.

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS: To obtain your CE certificate, learners must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.

FINANCIAL/COMMERCIAL SUPPORT STATEMENT: This course has no commercial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:  This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.

GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICIES: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.

PARTICIPATION COSTS:  The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.

COURSE CREATION DATE: 12/24/2021

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Apply at least two techniques for addressing supervisees’ personal values in supervision
• Describe at least three common practices in the documentation of supervision
• Integrate video review into their supervision practices
• Integrate discussion of current social events and their impact on mental health clients into the supervision process

1. Supervisor ways of being
2. The supervision contract
3. Addressing supervisees’ personal values
4. Addressing supervisee impairment
5. Supervision activities
   1. Supervision planning (parallel to treatment planning)
   2. Crisis monitoring (brief review and how-to)
   3. Case intake
   4. Case conceptualization
   5. Video review
   6. Skill building
   7. Serving as an example
   8. Addressing current events
6. Self-disclosure in supervision
7. Documenting supervision
8. Assessing the supervisor