The eLearning Center for Gatlin Education Services

Participants will:

Develop an understanding of different models of supervision;
Be able to distinguish between psychotherapy and supervision; and
Learn important elements of supervisory ethics.

Clinical supervision, while appearing on the surface to be similar to psychotherapy, is a different relationship, a different set of skills, with unique qualities and characteristics that set it apart. In this program on supervision, Barbara Alexander, LCSW, BCD, interviews four experts who discuss various aspects of supervision.

Russell Haber, PhD, discusses the dimensions of supervision from a systemic point of view: How the intellect, skills, emotions, and intuition all play a crucial roll in the supervisor, supervisee, client system.

Dr. Wendy Haskell continues and elaborates on the relational model of supervision, discussing the positioning of the supervisor, what impacts the supervisor''s decisions about what gets focused on in supervision, and how the fundamental reality of the diversity of supervisors and supervisees --- culture, character, and gender --- all impact and deepen the learning process.

Jerrold Brandell, PhD, presents focal process analysis, an example of the classical model of supervision and a method of helping beginning therapists learn to listen carefully to the clinical process of their patients.

Dr. Carlton Munson discusses the ways in which supervision presents the supervisor with a complex balancing act between the rights and welfare of the clients, the ethical codes of the various disciplines, the policies and procedures of the organization or agency, and, of course, the learning of the supervisee.

Part 1: Dimensions of Supervision
  Interview with Russell Haber, PhD
Part 2: Deepening the Supervisory Relationship
  Interview with Wendy Haskell, PhD
Part 3: Focal Conflict Analysis in Supervision
  Interview with Jerrold Brandell, PhD
Part 4: Supervisory Ethics
  Interview with Carlton Munson, PhD
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