Master Class Information
This workshop is a PsyBA approved one day Master Class which will provide participants who are already approved supervisors with ongoing AHPRA accreditation for 5 years. The workshop covers theory and practice in implementing a reflective practice framework within a competency based supervision model of practice. Participants will develop meta competencies for setting up, facilitating and evaluating supervisee reflectivity in practice. Participants will learn the process of dialogical reflectivity using the micro skill of immediacy in supervision to facilitate relational engagement and develop supervisee relational competence.
The workshop will assume supervisors already have the foundational core competencies of establishing a competency based framework for supervision as this workshop will extend on this knowledge in using reflexivity-in-action. Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency based supervision to ensure participants are familiar with the Board requirements. Relational factors such as client- supervisee-supervisor parallel processes will also be examined with critical reflection of the supervisor- supervisee dynamics and implications for assessment and evaluation.
Presenter: Christine Senediak
By the end of the workshop participants will:
Have a greater understanding of systemic theory and how to apply in a supervisory context
- Improve awareness of, and be able to better manage self-issues that can interfere and detract from professional practice
- Be introduced to the concepts of the “person of the therapist’ and its relevance in therapy and supervision
- Develop confidence and competence working with parallel process in supervision
- Have a strong theoretical framework to apply systemic supervision in your workplace
- Understand clinical presentations systemically taking into consideration multiple stakeholders, relationships and the interplay of mentoring and monitoring tasks in supervision
- Know how to set up, practice and evaluate the effectiveness of systemic supervision in your workplace.
Workshop content
- Systemic theory and its application within clinical practice, supervision and team functioning
- Practical demonstrations and application of genogram and ecogram/sociogram mapping for systemic analysis and intervention
- Live demonstration of systemic practice in supervision
- How to stimulate personal reflection of self and review and manage the relational factors within therapeutic, managerial and supervisory contexts
- Explore the role of parallel process in supervision
- Small group micro skill practice and review of case examples using a systemic supervision model
- How to make connection between personal and professional (the ‘Person of the Therapist’)
- Consider how systemic ideas and practice support management and clinical practice
- How to consider and manage wider systems issues (including cultural, institutional and the social landscape) using both genograms and ecograms in practice.
Workshop content
- Systemic theory and its application within clinical practice, supervision and team functioning
- Practical demonstrations and application of genogram and ecogram/sociogram mapping for systemic analysis and intervention
- Live demonstration of systemic practice in supervision
- How to stimulate personal reflection of self and review and manage the relational factors within therapeutic, managerial and supervisory contexts
- Explore the role of parallel process in supervision
- Small group micro skill practice and review of case examples using a systemic supervision model
- How to make connection between personal and professional (the ‘Person of the Therapist’)
- Consider how systemic ideas and practice support management and clinical practice
- How to consider and manage wider systems issues (including cultural, institutional and the social landscape) using both genograms and ecograms in practice
This one day workshop will provide a framework for clinicians, supervisors and managers to broaden their knowledge and skills in the theory and practice of systemic supervision. Systemic supervision looks at ways to stimulate supervisee’s personal and professional development through the use of reflective and reflexive learning tasks, exploration of emotions and patterns in relationships. A systems approach to supervision and management considers cultural and contextual factors that can influence relationships and helps clients, therapists, managers and supervisors work towards managing challenging relationships and dynamics that can impact on the delivery of mental and health services. By attending this workshop you will gain the skills to conduct systemically focused supervision sessions using a competency based framework.
What you will learn?
- How to meaningfully and experientially use genograms and ecograms in assessment and treatment
- How to make connection between personal and professional (the ‘person of the therapist’)
- How systemic ideas and practice can support management and clinical practice
- How to set up, practice and evaluate the effectiveness of systemic supervision in your workplace
- How to consider and manage wider systems issues (including cultural, institutional and the social landscape)
Why do this course?
By the end of this one day workshop you will
- Have a greater understanding of systemic theory and how to apply in a supervisory context
- Improve awareness of, and be able to better manage, self-issues that can interfere and detract from professional practice
- Develop confidence and competence working with parallel process in supervision
- Have a strong theoretical framework to apply systemic supervision in your workplace
Workshop content
- Systemic theory and its application to supervision
- Practical demonstration and application of genogram and ecogram/sociogram mapping for systemic analysis and intervention
- Live demonstration of systemic practice in supervision
- How to stimulate personal reflection of self and review and manage the relational factors within therapeutic, managerial and supervisory contexts
- Exploration of parallel process in supervision
- Small group micro skill practice and review of case examples using a systemic supervision models.
This workshop is a PsyBA approved one day Master Class and will provide participants with an understanding of a number of ethical and legal issues relevant to supervisors and supervisees, including confidentiality, dual relationships, direct and vicarious liability, duty to warn and informed consent and the related challenges of ethical decision making. In addition, the workshop will discuss ways to identify and manage issues that may arise in the supervisory relationship and deal with difficulties that can occur in supervision, including feedback, evaluation and managing underperforming supervisees. Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency based supervision to ensure participants are familiar with the Board requirements.
Presenter: Christine Senediak
By the end of the workshop participants will:
- Understand core competencies of ethical practice in supervision
- Understand the multiple roles of the supervisor
- Have a solid understanding of professional boundaries and issues of confidentiality as related to professional practice issues in competency based supervision
- Have a solid understanding and be able to apply professional standards of practice in all aspects of supervision provision
- Understand ethical decision making in clinical and supervisory contexts
- Be aware of legal responsibility and related decision making regarding ethical issues and clinical competence, and personal functioning
- Be competent to apply ethical decision making regarding gatekeeping, monitoring and evaluation across all pathways
- Be aware of and competent to manage challenging issues that may arise in the different contexts of supervision
- Be able to identify and manage challenging supervisory relationships and difficulties
- Be able to give difficult feedback and evaluation to supervisees
- Be able to manage other challenging contexts of supervision (e.g. incompetent supervisee; role conflict, gender and religious issues).
Component / workshop structure and activities
- Integrating ethical awareness in clinical supervision
- Ethical guidelines in clinical practice and supervision
- Developing ethical maturity; sustaining lifetime practices
- The supervisory relationship – building an alliance on solid ground
- The limits of confidentiality
- How the APS Code of Ethics informs professional practice and the development of ethical maturity
- Specific issues of ethics related to supervisor – supervisee relationships
- Managing conflicts in supervision
- Managing the underperforming supervisee
- Using feedback and evaluation in competency based supervision
This workshop has been developed for psychologists who specialise in assessment and neuropsychological services. Neuropsychology is recognised as a distinct discipline of psychology and this workshop provides participants with a framework and practical guide to incorporate reflective practice into neuropsychology supervision based on developmental and competency models of practice. Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency based supervision to ensure participants are familiar with the Board requirements.
Presenter: Dr. Nicola Gates
By the end of the workshop participants will:
- Have a sound knowledge of the theory of reflective practice in neuropsychology supervision
- Understand the principles of how reflectivity promotes independent thinking, improved clinician self-awareness and creativity
- Be aware of the importance of reflective supervision for therapeutic intervention and neuropsychological feedback
- Be able to apply reflective practice & model reflectivity to supervisees
- Understand the challenges of working in the field of neuropsychology and apply this in supervision
- Understand how to use journals/diaries in supervision that promote reflective practice within a neuropsychological framework
Workshop structure/content
- Definition of reflective practice
- Competency standards for neuropsychological supervision
- Differences between reflective practice and traditional didactic neuropsychology supervision techniques
- The role of reflectivity in neuropsychology supervision
- Application of reflective practice in enhancing neuropsychological feedback
- Demonstration of reflective practice supervision: setting up supervision using these guidelines
- Application to case review – participants are required to bring to the session a case issue or supervision issue to review competency based neuropsychological supervision
This one day workshop has been has been especially designed to meet the needs of those who are currently supervising or planning to supervise school counsellors and those working in a school context offering counselling and support to school community
Pre-reading will be provided in addition to class notes provided at the workshop. Small class practice sessions, application to case review and exercises are used throughout the training. This workshop covers supervision of school based issues including managing complex issues within the school system, ethical issues, working remotely and balancing different roles and responsibilities of school counselling.
The Presenter:
Lydia Senediak, BA (Hons), DipEd,MA (Childhood Studies), M (Clin Psychol)
By the end of the Workshop participants will
- Have a comprehensive understanding of the principles of setting up competency based supervision for school counsellors within the school system
- Have a understanding of the interplay of systemic issues within the organisational culture of the school and how this impacts on the clinical practice, professional development and self-care of the school counsellor
- Develop an awareness and review complex ethical issues as they relate to supervision for school counsellors
- Facilitate ways for the supervisor to build reflective practice and self-supervision strategies to help the supervisee manage outside the supervision session
- Build in ways to utilise technology in supervision for school counsellors that work remotely, as individual practitioners and with little supports
- Have a solid understanding of managing line management vs clinical supervision within the school system
- Review best practice strategies for establishing and reviewing peer, individual , in-house, external and group supervision contexts for school counsellors
- Have a solid understanding of how to managing trauma, complex issues and school systems within a supervisory context
- APS Framework for delivery of school psychological services
Workshop structure/content
- This workshop provides participants with the knowledge and skills to implement competency based supervision within the school system, addressing the complexities of balancing educational, support, and administrative roles in supervision.
- There is opportunity to reflect and review complex ethical and legal issues that arise in the school context
- Review of crisis supervision and managing risk in the school context
- Managing systemic issues within a school based context
- Legal issues in school counselling supervision
- Managing assessment and evaluation of supervisee competencies
- Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency based supervision to ensure participants are familiar with the Board requirements
This is an AHPRA approved Supervisor Master Class. Psychologists who are endorsed supervisors are eligible to enrol in the Master Class. By undertaking this workshop psychologists will be eligible to apply for ongoing accreditation as a Board approved supervisor for a period of 5 years. The study of neurobiology has made a significant impact in recent years on deepening knowledge about the effects of abuse related trauma.This workshop provides participants with an opportunity to critically examine the practice of competency based supervision across the different pathways within a trauma informed practice lens.
Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency based supervision to ensure participants are familiar with the Board requirements
Presenter: Christine Senediak
By the end of the workshop participants will:
- An increased understanding of the complexity of working with clients people who have experienced relationally based complex trauma and the challenges for supervisees
- Insight into the personal, professional, organisational impact of trauma
- Supervision strategies and processes to ensure that trauma informed practice remains at the forefront of practice when working with clients who have experienced trauma
- A framework/model of reflective practice in trauma-informed supervision management within a competency based framework
Workshop structure/content
- Goals, nature and function of supervision within trauma-informed care
- Setting up and implementing a reflective practice supervision framework within trauma- informed services
- Sensitivity to trauma in the supervisory context
- Application of a competency based and reflective practice in psychological practice
- Setting up and maintaining safe supervision
- Maintaining boundaries and sound ethical practice in supervision
- Self-care of the professional
- Managing complex presentations, ethical issues and agency related challenges
- Balancing educational, support, and administrative roles in supervision
- Evaluation of the supervisory process and diversity (managing expectations and responsibilities; providing feedback in trauma-informed supervision)
- Ensuring supervisors develop a solid skills and knowledge to manage the supervisory relationship (e.g. managing developmental stages of supervision; vicarious trauma, self-care, boundary setting)
- Knowledge of supervision as it relates specifically to trauma-informed supervision theory and practice including ethical and professional practice in trauma-informed supervision
- Assessment of supervisee competency (application of therapeutic interventions in trauma-informed practice.
Remote delivery group size 12
This workshop is a new workshop not previously approved as a Master Class. The workshop provides a framework for competency based supervision for supervisees working with clients who present with complex mental health and comorbid presentations. There is a focus on identifying risk and managing the often complex clinical issues that arise from working with clients who present with acute or chronic complex mental health presentations. Coverage of systemic issues and working within a multidisciplinary context and medical model is also addressed with regards to clinical management issues, reporting and confidentiality issues. Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency based supervision to ensure participants are familiar with the Board requirements.
Presenter: Sam Vasta
By the end of the workshop participants will:
- Have sound knowledge of the application of competency based supervision in adult mental health clinical contexts
- Understand the principles of how reflectivity promotes independent thinking, improved clinician self-awareness, self-care
- Applying dialogical reflexivity in supervision evaluation and feedback
- Be aware of the importance of reflective supervision for therapeutic intervention and the development of meta competencies in practice
- Be able to apply reflective practice & model reflectivity to supervisees
- Identify and manage the challenges of working in the field of adult mental health and complex comorbid clinical mental health presentations
- Be able to identify and manage complex risk, legal and ethical issues
- Review of clinical/workplace issues brought to the session by participants
Workshop structure/content
- Understanding the ethical, legal and risk factors facing the supervisee working in an adult mental health context
- Confidentiality – managing competing demands of system, client and family (Case review scenarios and critical decision making in practice) – small group discussion and role plays
- Assessment, evaluation and feedback using a competency based framework: developing metacompetencies in practice
- Dialogical reflexivity – enhancing supervisee self-reflection and in-action
This workshop provides a context to review and understand the practice of competency based supervision within an organisational psychology context. This workshop will provide participants with specific knowledge and skills to apply supervision for those working in the varied roles of an organisational psychology practice. Pre-reading resources are provided, including revision documents of competency based supervision to ensure participants are familiar with the Board requirements.
Presenter: Fernanda Afonso
By the end of the workshop participants will:
- Have sound knowledge of the theory and practice of reflectivity in practice using competency based supervision principles as it applies across the wide spectrum f organisational psychology interventions
- Understand the principles of how to use reflectivity in recruitment, facilitating training, psychological testing and behavioural interviewing
- Develop specific supervisee relational and reflective competencies for coaching and mentoring
- Develop skills to enhance supervisee exploration of cognition, behaviour, emotions in practice, developing reflection-in-action, on-action and for-action
- Be able to teach supervisees to apply self-supervision, dialogical reflectivity for in-action experiential and transformational learning
Workshop structure/content
- Participants are required to bring a workplace scenario where they have personally experienced a challenging supervisory encounter either as supervisee or supervisor. Small group discussion and role play exercises will then be used to demonstrate, model and workshop preferred interventions
- The specific tasks of the supervisor in the organisational context – how to manage stakeholder issues impacting on service delivery, delivering corrective feedback, challenging systems and critical issues
- Supervisor- supervisee – wider system relational factors. Building a secure supervisory alliance and managing parallel processes
- Supervising the underperforming supervisee
- Applying supervision tasks in change management
- Self –care in the workplace