Clinical Supervision Training (Providing Good Clinical Supervision)

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 the professional bodies say about 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.

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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, and introduce you to 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.

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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.
• 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.
• 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?
• Supervising the supervisor. The buck never stops quite where you think it does.
• Video of delivery of supervision, and associated exercise.
• Legal and ethical issues and responsibilities.
• Trouble-shooting. Conflicts and other problems.
• Finale exercise, including inter-group quiz.
• Registration, wind-down and feedback.

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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 know what people are talking about when they refer to models of supervision, and be confident that you have a model that is a good one.
• 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 have the skill (and the downloadable resources) to deliver on the contracts you establish.
• You will have the confidence that you know about - and can therefore feel relaxed about - the legal and ethical issues involved in supervision.

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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. 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.

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