Course Code: REL-BHC-0-BMERCS
Hours: 1.5
Type: Online Course
Content Expiration Date: 12/31/2024
Learning Objectives:
Identify the key supervisor and supervisee factors that affect supervisory relationships.
Describe the role of self-awareness on the quality of supervisory relationships and ways you can enhance your supervisory integrity and skills through continual self-monitoring.
Indicate how to manage different communication styles between yourself and your supervisees and how to communicate supervisory feedback with respect for the basic dignity of your supervisees.
Explain how to effectively and respectfully transform challenges that arise with supervisees into opportunities that promote their professional development and growth.
Outline:
Section 1: Introduction
About This Course
Learning Objectives
Section 2: Supervisor Factors and the Supervisory Relationship
Sam’s Supervisory Relationship
The Importance of the Supervisory Relationship
Key Supervisor Factors
Supervisory Style
Social Skills
Mindfulness
Multicultural Competence
Expert and Referent Power
Quick Check
Supervisor’s Attachment Style
Use of Self-Disclosure
Supervisor’s Ethical Behavior
Review
Summary
Section 3: Supervisee Factors and the Supervisory Relationship
Supervisee Personality Traits
Level of Professional Development
Supervisee Engagement
Trust in the Supervisor
Agreement with Tasks and Goals
Supervisee Countertransference and Parallel Process
Review
Summary
Section 4: Supervisory Self-Awareness
Tonya’s Reaction
Self-Awareness
Supervisee Dependency
Divergent Styles and Values
Multicultural Differences
Life-Transitions and Challenges
Review
Summary
Section 5: Communicating Feedback with Respect and Dignity
Overview
Providing Feedback to Supervisees
Meet Taylor
Importance of Respect
Importance of Integrity
Review
Summary
Section 6: Transforming Challenges into Opportunities
Overview
Supervisory Relationship Ruptures
Supervisor Humility
Quick Check
Helpful Responses to Supervisory Ruptures
A Common Supervisory Challenge
Responding to Conflicts: Three Key Steps
Responding to Challenges
Transforming Challenges Through Self-Disclosure
Balanced Appraisals
Review
Summary
Section 7: Conclusion
Course Summary
Course Contributors
Resources
References
Congratulations!
Instructor: Brent Scobie, PhD, LCSW
Brent received his masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Maine. Over the past 20 years, he has worked in a number of clinical positions at an acute care psychiatric and substance abuse treatment facility and within private practice. He has provided both evaluative and therapeutic services within emergency departments and forensic, inpatient, residential, and nonresidential substance abuse and co-occurring disorders programs. His clinical interest areas include evaluation and treatment of adolescent addiction disorders, chronic pain, insomnia, and anxiety disorders. He is a part-time faculty member at the University of Maine where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on subjects including substance use disorders, adult and child psychopathology, and healthcare administration and management.
Staff Writer: Monique Kahn, Psy.D.
Monique Kahn, Psy.D. received her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from Nova Southeastern University in Florida. She completed a pre-doctoral internship at Spokane Mental Health in Washington, which included specialty rotations in behavioral medicine and time-limited psychotherapies. She is licensed as a psychologist in Maine, where she was in private practice for 14 years, providing services to adult clients with varied presenting issues, but with particular emphasis on the treatment of anxiety disorders, the relationship between psychosocial stress and illness, insomnia, and coping with chronic illness. She has taught in the undergraduate psychology program at Husson University in Maine. In addition, she has worked as a content writer and psychology subject matter expert for several major educational publishing firms. She joined Relias as a clinical content writer and subject matter expert in 2016.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this course is: Alcohol and Drug Counselors; Intermediate level Social Workers; Marriage and Family Therapists; Professional Counselors; Psychologists; in the following settings: Health and Human Services.
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All courses offered by Relias Learning, LLC are developed from a foundation of diversity, inclusiveness, and a multicultural perspective. Knowledge, values and awareness related to cultural competency are infused throughout the course content.
To earn continuing education credit for this course you must achieve a passing score of 80% on the post-test and complete the course evaluation.
Course Delivery Method and Format
Asynchronous Distance Learning with interactivity which includes quizzes with questions/answers, and posttests.