Clinical supervision is an important aspect of mental health practice. Essentials of Clinical Supervision presents a comprehensive model and techniques for supervising mental health professionals individually and in groups, as well as peer supervision. A clear and accessible resource, it provides step-by-step guidelines for supervising beginning as well as advanced practitioners, along with proven tips for effective supervision, including how to give constructive feedback and how to apply coaching strategies to motivate supervisees.

As part of the Essentials of Mental Health Practice series, this book provides information mental health professionals need to practice knowledgably and ethically in today's behavioral healthcare environment. Each concise chapter features numerous callout boxes highlighting key concepts, bulleted points, and extensive illustrative material, as well as 'Test Yourself' questions that help you gauge and reinforce your grasp of the information covered.

Essentials of Clinical Supervision covers basic skills such as goal setting, evaluation, building the supervision relationship, and solving problems. It also discusses specific supervision strategies such as teaching, mentoring, coaching, and consulting; explains how to document supervision; and describes specialized techniques, such as using video in supervision. Finally, it incorporates an important section on ethical, legal, multicultural, and crisis management issues that may arise when supervising others. Essentials of Clinical Supervision supplies professionals and students in all mental health fields with key resource for effective practice.

Educational Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the clinician will be able to:

• Identify the skills and behaviors necessary for effective clinical supervision.
• Differentiate models of clinical supervision and apply these models appropriately in the practice of supervision.
• Identify the formats for clinical supervision and select the structure to best actualize one's model for supervision.
• Address ethical, legal, multicultural, and crisis management issues that arise in the supervision of others.
• Differentiate the specific concerns of supervisees in the beginning, intermediate, and advanced stages of supervision and apply that knowledge in supervision to meet the needs of supervisees.
• Motivate supervisees using constructive feedback and coaching strategies.

Syllabus / Course Instructions

• This course is suitable for CE for beginning, intermediate and advanced level clinicians.
• The Course consists of reading the selected book, successfully completing an online posttest and filling out a course evaluation.
• The printed book is not included in the cost of the course. It must be purchased separately. We have supplied a link to Amazon.com for your convenience.
• Purchasing your course will give you access to both a printable copy of the test and an online version of the test. Print the test to use as a companion as you read the book and answer the questions.
• You cannot exit the online test once you begin, so have your answers available.

Additional Resources On This Site for CE

• The Gift of Therapy
  by Irvin Yalom: 10 CE Credits
• Getting Over OCD: A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life
  Jonathan S. Abramowitz, PhD: 12 CE Credits
• The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know (2nd Edition)
  David J. Miklowitz, Ph.D.: 15 CE Credits
• Flourish: A New Understanding of Well-being
  by Martin E.P. Seligman: 13 CE Credits
• The Strengths Perspective in Social Work Practice (Fifth Edition)......................[This Course is not available for CE for psychologists]
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• The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress, and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors
  by Rebecca Williams, PhD and Julie Kraft MA, LMFT: 7 CE Credits
• On Becoming a Better Therapist: Evidence-Based Practice One Client at a Time (2nd Edition)
  by Barry L. Duncan: 10 CE Credits

Additional Resources Not On This Site

• www.theheartandsoulofchange.com
• www.whatsrightwithyou.com
• barrylduncan@comcast.net
• American Psychological Association
• Association of Social Work Boards
• National Association of Certified Counselors
• National Association of Addiction Professionals

Bio: Jane M. Campbell, PhD, NCC, ACS

Jane M. Campell, PhD, NCC, ACS, is a licensed psychologist in the state of Texas, a clinical member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT), and a National Board for Certified Counselors Approved Clinical Supervisor. Over a long career in the field of mental health, she has been in private practice, taught in schools as well as on the faculties of the University of Houston and University of Houston-Clear Lake.

In the late 1990s she was a visiting assistant professor at George Washington University. Dr. Campbell has presented on the local, state, national, and international level on supervision as well as brief psychotherapy intervention strategies, ethics, and grief counseling. In 2000, she published Becoming an Effective Supervisor: A Workbook for Counselors and Psychotherapists, which is based on her experience teaching a 40-hour course for those seeking certification as supervisors in the state of Texas. For the past 5 years she has been crisscrossing the nation teaching clinical supervision to broad audiences in the mental and behavioral health field. Dr. Campbell can be found at drjmcamp@aol.com.

Bio: Barbara Herlihy, PhD, NCC, IPC

Barbara Herlihy, PhD, NCC, IPC, is a professor of counselor education at the University of New Orleans. She is the co-author of six books on ethics in counseling and psychotherapy. She is also the author or co-author of numerous articles and book chapters on ethical issues, supervision, multicultural counseling, and feminist therapy.