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Providing Good Clinical Supervision.
Providing Good Clinical Supervision is a 2-day clinical supervision training course from APT, a leading independent provider of training in mental health and related areas. We bring this APT-Accredited course to your own organization and train a group of 6-15 people. (Live webinar also available.)
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 the current models of supervision, what the professional bodies say about it, and more. The 'more' consists predominantly of learning how to do it, or learning to do it better. The aim is, therefore, that by the end of the 2 days 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?
- What do professional bodies say is required?
- 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 Dialogue
- Focusing the conversation.
- Giving information and helping the supervise 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, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.
Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.
Booking this training is easy.
Option 1: Live webinar:
This course can be provided as a live webinar for groups and individuals. A webinar typically takes slightly less time than the live course on which it is based (because of less group discussion and group exercises) but they have equivalence in accreditation and are live and pleasingly interactive.
Delegates can be anywhere that is conducive to concentrating, all together or separate, so long as they have access to a computer with a good internet connection.
Exclusive Live Webinars (for groups)
$4,850 for a group of up to 15 people.
Open Live Webinar (for Individuals)
Dates Available:
5-6 Oct 2020 (This is a 2-day webinar.)
20-21 April 2021 (This is a 2-day webinar.)
14-15 Dec 2021 (This is a 2-day webinar.)
Times and Cost:
10am - 3pm (EDT) daily (Including an hour's break.)
$400 per person
Option 2: Bring the course to your organization:
We bring this 2-day course to your own organization for a fixed fee of $4,695 (plus tutor travel and accommodation expenses) and up to 15 people can attend.
To book, email office@aptcanada.com, or click the button:
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Option 3: 'Train the Trainer':
If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organization, under license.
This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organization the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules.
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Feedback Ratings.
We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course.
Average Presentation rating: 97%
Average Relevance rating: 95%
*These statistics were last updated in April 2017.
Written Feedback.
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."