Providing Good Clinical Supervision.
Providing Good Clinical Supervision is a 2-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of clinical supervision training for professionals working in mental health and related fields in Canada.
Founded in 1981, APT has grown to become a trusted source of gold-standard training, from introductory through to masterclass level. Over 150,000 mental health professionals have attended APT’s post-qualification courses, commissioned by numerous health authorities and healthcare providers.
APT’s Clinical Supervision training uniquely combines built-in APT Accreditation with automatic access to our renowned post-course resources to help you support your clients. It is available for both teams and individuals, face-to-face or online.
Executive Summary:
Clinical supervision is a key concept that many people are unclear about. Unclear whether 'supervision' means that you should be ensuring that the supervisee is 'doing it right' or whether you should be providing a sounding board for the supervisee to develop their clinical thinking, or what. And many people are equally unsure about exactly what their professional body has to say about it, and where to find that out.
This course is designed to clear up all of the above by looking at what we need to achieve in supervision, how to establish a competent supervision contract, and how to deliver on that contract. The aim is, therefore, that by the end of the course you will both (a) know about clinical supervision and (b) be good at providing it.
The course aims:
- To give you the knowledge of what supervision is, what it aims to achieve, and how this is best achieved.
- To acquaint you with the idea that there are different models of supervision, introduce you to the major ones, and give you the one that gives you the best chance of success.
- To give you the skill and resources to to set up good contracts with your supervisees.
- To give you the skill and resources to reliably deliver on the contracts, repeatedly and reliably.
- To acquaint you with the relevant legal and ethical issues involved in supervision.
What the course covers - the syllabus:
- Definitions, purpose, boundaries and tasks of clinical supervision: just what is it?
- An overview of some models of supervision.
- Davies’s Structured Supervision Plan
- The structure of supervision: setting it up right. Pros and cons of the line manager and the clinical supervisor being the same person; frequency, duration, etc; clinical responsibility.
- Setting it up right 2: peer supervision.
- Forming a supervision contract: how and why. Includes video demo.
- Practical exercise on contracting.
- Delivering the contract well. What makes for good and bad supervision? What works especially well in supervision, what are the pitfalls to avoid?
- Socratic Dialog
- Focusing the conversation.
- Giving information and helping the supervisee plan to improve on what they already do.
- Responding to ‘resistance’ so as not to magnify it.
- Supervising people in groups, using the same format as supervising people individually.
- Supervising people in groups, setting up successful Consultation meetings.
- Supervising the supervisor. The buck never stops quite where you think it does.
- Legal and ethical issues and responsibilities.
- Trouble-shooting. Conflicts and other problems.
- Keeping things going well.
- Applying what we have covered, reliably, including the use of the trouble shooting checklist.
What the course will do for you:
- You will have confidence that you know what you are meant to do, and not do, as a supervisor; you will know what supervision is meant to be.
- You will have the skill (and the downloadable resources) to set up contracts with your supervisees so that everyone knows where they are and what is expected of them.
- You will be able to provide positive, effective and stimulating supervision both individually and in groups.
- You will be able to set up ‘peer-supervision’ arrangements, for pairs and for larger groups.
- You will have the confidence that you know about - and can therefore feel relaxed about - the legal and ethical issues involved in supervision.
- You will have the resources to deliver what has been covered, reliably.
What you receive as a result of attending the training:
You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.
Your registration lasts indefinitely, whilst your accreditation lasts for 3 years from the date of completion and is renewable.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 150,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
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FAQs:
Can I call myself a Clinical Supervisor after attending this course?
This is post qualification training so it is for people with the seniority to be supervisors who want to make sure they provide supervision as well as they can. The people who normally attend are – or about to be - supervisors in their own service, rather than people wishing to provide freelance supervision, although it is possible to offer your freelance services so long as you are totally transparent as to what qualifications you have and what training you have received.
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❯ The Supervision of Supervisors
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* Feedback taken from the last 10 runnings of this course (each course has around 15 people attending).
** Feedback taken from the last 20 people completing the course. Delegates give a single overall rating to anytime courses.
If the course has run less than the stated number of times, the percentage score will be based on the number of times the course has been completed.
Reviews.
APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Providing Good Clinical Supervision course has received.
“Just about everything has been of benefit to me as a supervisor (and supervisee). I would recommend this course unreservedly.”
"An exceptionally well delivered course which was wonderfully facilitated by the tutor. Depth and breadth of information that I will be able to take forward and introduce within my own occupational environment. Thank you, a great and valuable course."
