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Clinical Supervision and Professional Development

16.00 - CE credit hours training

$100.00 - Cost of course

This page contains important information about the course, including training details, a comprehensive course description, learning objectives, and source references. We encourage you to review each section to gain a clear understanding of the course content, educational goals, and supporting materials before beginning your training and taking the POST TEST below.

Target audience and instructional level of this course: foundational
There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support related to this CE program.

Clinical Supervision and Professional Development

Follow the link below, read the material and then take the 40 question post test

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Clinical Supervision and Professional Development

40 Questions

1. Supervision is a disciplined, tutorial process wherein principles are transformed into practical skills, with four overlapping foci: administrative, evaluative, clinical, and supportive
2. Effective supervisors observe, mentor, coach, evaluate, inspire, and create an atmosphere that promotes self-motivation, learning, and professional development. They build teams, create cohesion, resolve conflict, and shape agency culture, while attending to ethical and diversity issues in all aspects of the process.
3. Clinical supervision in substance abuse treatment most often requires balancing administrative and clinical supervision tasks.
4. Clinical supervision should involve indirect observation methods since indirect observation is one of the best ways to build skills and monitor counselor performance.
5. The characteristics of the first developmental stage of a counselor include focusing intently on the client, high degree of empathetic skill and integrative thinking.
6. Culture is one of the major contextual factors that influence supervisory interactions. Other contextual variables include race, ethnicity, age, gender, discipline, academic background, religious and spiritual practices, sexual orientation, disability, and recovery versus non-recovery status.
7. Legal and ethical issues that are not critical to clinical supervisors include (1) vicarious liability (or respondeat superior) and dual relationships and boundary concerns.
8. Informed consent is key to protecting the counselor and/or supervisor from legal concerns, requiring the recipient of any service or intervention to be sufficiently aware of what is to happen, and of the potential risks and alternative approaches, so that the person can make an informed and intelligent decision about participating in that service. The supervisor must inform the supervisee about the process of supervision, the feedback and evaluation criteria, and other expectations of supervision.
9. Under duty-to-warn requirements (e.g., child abuse, suicidal or homicidal ideation), supervisors need to be aware of and take action as soon as possible in situations in which confidentiality may need to be waived. Organizations should have a policy stating how clinical crises will be handled.
10. Contacting affected parties and notifying relevant authorities such as child and family services are steps to be taken while monitoring warning signs while dealing with ethical and legal concerns.
11. The substance abuse treatment field risks losing many skilled and compassionate healers when the life goes out of their work. Supervisors must not care about substance abuse counselors who get burned out since they dint have it in them to continue what they have started. Instead supervisors should focus on those counselors who are dedicated and want to help people.
12. A counselor will recall a session as he or she experienced it. If a counselor experiences a session positively or negatively, the report to the supervisor will reflect that. The report is also affected by the counselor's level of skill and experience.
13. Videotaping is not permitted in most prison settings and EAP services. Videotaping may not be advisable when treating patients with some diagnoses, such as paranoia or some schizophrenic illnesses.
14. Peer supervision is a hierarchical and includes a formal evaluation procedure. It offers a means of accountability for counselors that they might not have in other forms of supervision.
15. Group clinical supervision is not a frequently used format for supervision, team building, and staff growth since this form of supervision is ineffective. In case one decides to opt for this technique, the recommended size of the group should be twelve - fifteen persons.
16. To perform ethical decision making the supervisor should recognize the ethical issues by asking whether there is potentially something harmful personally, professionally, or clinically. The supervisor should also get the facts and evaluate alternate actions through an ethical lens.
17. An effective supervisor plays this dual role of advocating for both administrators and leadership and the line worker and client. Whether working on a factory floor or in a clinical setting, it is difficult being in the middle. To aid you in this position, it is helpful to; understand the rationale of both administrators and line staff.
18. A basic rule of supervision is "do not ask a supervisee to do something you're not willing to do first." A second rule is that "leaders bear pain, they don't inflict it."
19. The goal of personal counseling is personal growth and development, selfexploration, becoming a better person. Whereas the goal of supervising is to make the counselor a better counselor.
20. It is important for the supervisor and counselor to understand the impact of counter transference in a counseling relationship such as a counselor's personal issues may contaminate how he or she sees the client's issues.
21. One principle of clinical supervision are:
22. Things a new supervisor should know include:
23. Models of clinical supervision include:
24. Becoming culturally competent and able to integrate other contextual variables into supervision is:
25. Which of the following statements are true?
26. Informed consent and concerns for confidentiality should occur at three levels, that are:
27. Indirect methods of supervision such as process recordings, case notes, verbal reports by the supervisees, and verbatim have various:
28. The Consensus Panel recommends that supervisors use direct observation of counselors through recording devices such as:
29. Live observation of counselors interacting with their clients is useful because:
30. Problems related to counter transference (projecting unresolved personal issues onto a client or supervisee) often make for difficult therapeutic relationships. The signs of counter transference are:
31. Correct documentation and recordkeeping are essential aspects of supervision. Mechanisms must be in place to demonstrate the accountability of your role. These systems should document:
32. The contextual issues that shape the techniques and methods of supervision include:
33. To encourage acceptance of direct observation, the supervisor should:
34. While writing a supervision contract, the following elements might be included:
35. To introduce changes in the clinical practice the supervisor should be:
36. To address personal issues that affect job performance the supervisor can
37. Legal and Ethical issues for administrators include:
38. Fong and Lease (1997) have identified four areas that might present challenges. Two of these areas are:
39. To phase in a clinical supervision system which of the following things should be done:
40. Documentation and supervisory records help in:

Clinical Supervision and Professional Development

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Course Description:

This training focuses primarily on the teaching, coaching, consulting, and mentoring functions of clinical supervisors. Supervision, like substance abuse counseling, is a profession in its own right, with its own theories, practices, and standards. The profession requires knowledgeable, competent, and skillful individuals who are appropriately credentialed both as counselors and supervisors

Clinical Supervision and Professional Development

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Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

Learning Objectives

After completing this training the health care professional will:

  • Identify potential ethical and legal issues that may arise.
  • Respond effectively to diversity issues relevant to the supervisee's development.
  • Identify and appropriately respond to conscious and unconscious psychological and emotional issues in supervisees.
  • Identify the strategies and methods for supervision.
  • Utilize means of reducing liability risk for supervisor, supervisee, and agency.
  • Identify the stages of the supervision process and what they entail.
David J. Powell, Ph.D.
President, International Center for Health Concerns
Published by Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and SAMHSA