Online Course - Multi Media
Clinical Supervision, Part II: Internal Structures
Course Description
This seven (7) hour course can be used to fulfill a portion of the education/training/coursework component of the CAMFT Certified Supervisor Program. Or, the course can stand on its own, providing a useful resource for anyone who provides clinical supervision. Part II, when combined with Parts I and III, will fulfill the education/training/coursework requirements for the CAMFT Certified Supervisor Program. Part II will focus on internal structures of supervision: Developmental Stages of Supervisee Learning; Applied Supervisory Skills; Contextual Issues; Theory on Therapy and Philosophy of Supervision. This course meets the California Board of Psychology and the California Board of Behavioral Sciences on-going requirement for Clinical Supervisors to complete six (6) hours of supervision coursework each license renewal cycle.
Objective
Upon completion of this course, the participant will:
(1) Recognize the characteristics of the beginning, intermediate, advanced and transitional
stages of the pre-licensed therapist’s growth as well as possess a working knowledge
of the tasks and goals within each stage.
(2) Facilitate the co-evolving therapist-client and supervisor-therapist-client relationships while identifying the
isomorphism that occurs within them and its impact.
(3) Identify contextual variables in supervision such as culture, gender, ethnicity,
and socio-economic status and demonstrate an awareness and sensitivity to the impact
of these contextual variables in the context of supervision.
(4) Develop perceptual and conceptual skills to monitor and evaluate progress in the therapist-client subsystem
as well as the therapist-supervisor relationship.
(5) Be familiar with major models of counseling and supervision and the pragmatic
implications of each model in terms of supervisory goals and interventions.
(6) Articulate a personal model of supervision, drawn from existing models of supervision and from preferred
styles of therapy.
(7) Apply supervisory skills to evaluate and identify and manage difficulties in therapist-client and supervisor-
therapist relationships.
For more information about the CAMFT Certified Supervisor Program, please click here.
Instructor
Sharon Duffy, Psy.D.
Dr. Sharon Duffy is in private practice in Woodland Hills, California. She supervises interns in her practice as well as at Phillip's Graduate Institute's California Family Center. She conducts a number of workshops on various issues in Clinical Supervision and is an adjunct professor at the California Graduate Institute. Dr. Duffy's doctoral dissertation was written on Supervisor- Supervisee Attachment Issues. She is a Past President of the San Fernando Valley Chapter of CAMFT.