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Digital Seminar

From Therapist to Supervisor: A Four-Stage Model (A803) (Audio Only)


Average Rating:
   1
Faculty:
Robert Taibbi, LCSW, Psychotherapy
Duration:
3 Hours 47 Minutes
Format:
Audio Only
Copyright:
Jan 01, 2012
Product Code:
NOS095541
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Enhance your awareness of therapists' strengths, weaknesses, and instructional needs at different stages in their careers, and learn how to use this knowledge to become a better supervisor.

Being a supervisor requires strong clinical skills, along with an understanding of the needs of therapists at different stages in their development and the key trouble spots they’re likely to encounter. In this course, we’ll explore a four-stage model for appropriate supervision of therapists as they gain experience and maturity.

  • How to serve as teacher to the often overwhelmed beginner.
  • Techniques for facilitating the professional and personal growth of the more advanced practitioner.
  • How to encourage autonomy and accountability in the mature therapist.
  • Steps you can take to further the creativity of the expert clinician.
  • Why mistakes are valuable.
  • A guide to overcoming the ethical and professional challenges facing new supervisors.
  • The pros and cons of group supervision.

Session 1:

  • The challenge of supervision – goals, obstacles
  • Principles and assumptions of model
  • Core concepts: Anxiety coping styles and parallel process

Session 2:

  • Stage 1:  Supervisor as Teacher
  • Characteristics – Know what you don’t know, anxiety
  • Supervision goals and tasks – assessment, relationship building
  • Dangers – over-responsibility, burn-out, rigidity
     
  • Stage 2: Supervisor as Guide
  • Characteristics – Don’t know what you know
  • Supervision goals and tasks – self awareness, power in the process
  • Dangers – dependency

Session 3:

  • Stage 3: Supervisor as Gatekeeper
  • Characteristics – Don’t know what don’t know
  • Goals and tasks – setting boundaries, encourage individuality
  • Dangers – testing, abuse of power, loss
     
  • Stage 4: Supervisor as Consultant
  • Characteristics – Know what you know
  • Goals and tasks – brainstorming, maintaining creativity
  • Dangers – boredom, blurred relationship

Session 4:

  • Challenges of New Supervisors
  • Use of group supervision
  • Time management – Covey model
  • Recordkeeping guidelines
  • Guidelines for hiring & firing

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after completing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.


Counselors

This intermediate self-study activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements.


Social Workers

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the course. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2017 - January 27, 2020. Social Workers completing this course receive 6.0 () continuing education credits for completing this intermediate level course. A certificate of attendance will be awarded at the end of the program to social workers who complete the program evaluation. Full attendance is required. No partial credit will be offered for partial attendance. 


Psychologists

Marriage & Family Therapists

This self-study activity consists of 6.0 clock hours of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save this course outline, the certificate of completion you receive from this self-study activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.0 continuing education clock hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.



Faculty

Robert Taibbi, LCSW, Psychotherapy Related seminars and products


Robert Taibbi, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with over 40 years of experience primarily in community mental health working with couples and families as a clinician, supervisor and clinical director. Bob is the author of Clinical Supervision: A Four-Stage Process of Growth andDiscovery and Clinical Social Work Supervision.

Bob is the author of four other books: Doing Couples Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate PartnersDoing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice, now in its 3rd edition and recently translated into Chinese and Portuguese; Boot Camp Therapy: Action-Oriented Brief Treatment of Anxiety, Anger & Depression, and the forthcoming The Art of the First Session.

Bob is also an online columnist for Psychotherapy Today magazine, has published over 300 magazine and journal articles, and has contributed several book chapters including Favorite Counseling Techniques: 55 Masters Share Their Secrets which cited him among the top 100 therapists in the country. He served as teen advice columnist for Current Health, a contributing editor to Your Health and Fitness, and has received three national writing awards for Best Consumer Health Writing.

Bob is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina, and has served as adjunct professor at several universities. He provides trainings nationally and internationally in the areas of supervision, couple therapy, family therapy, and brief therapy. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Robert Taibbi is in private practice. He receives royalties as an author for The Guilford Press publishers, Pearson publishers, and Norton publishers. He receives compensation for a monthly advice column for Charlottesville Family magazine. Mr. Taibbi receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.

Non-financial: Robert Taibbi does not receive compensation for his contribution of book chapters. 
 


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive) Access never expires for this product.

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