Workshop Description:

This half-day workshop is focused on training and supporting competent clinical supervisors. Supervisory skill is a professional competency that is relevant to all levels of practice, from the initial development of supervisory skills among graduate students and interns, to the ongoing support of experienced clinical supervisors in our training settings. This workshop will address the best (and worst) supervisory practices – the “do’s and don’ts” of supervision. Participants will receive training in an evidence-based model of clinical supervision. In addition, participants will explore strategies for the self-assessment of supervisory competence and reflect on the use of professional disclosure statements and supervision contracts in one’s supervision practice. The coverage of these topics will be facilitated by large and small group discussion including a) the use of vignettes to identify best (and worst) practices and supervision challenges; b) the personal, institutional, and systemic factors that affect their clinical supervision practice; and c) the identification of one or more best practices that participants wish to adopt into their supervision practice..