Clinical Supervision | A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach
February 4, 2012
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Through lecture, exercises, shared clinical vignettes, and discussion this course will examine the supervisory process. Utilizing concepts such as mutuality, multiple self-organization, and co-transference, as well as drawing from psychotherapy outcome research this course will present a contemporary psychoanalytic model of supervision. It will attempt to make explicit personal organizing principles that influence how we think about ourselves, how we understand psychological development psychological change, and how we conduct therapy and supervision. Participants will examine their growth as a therapist, reflecting on critical experiences that shaped their development in order to better understand their role as a supervisor. They will learn about the stages in the development of a psychotherapist and a supervisor, and characteristics of effective supervision. Through questions and shared clinical vignettes, participants will look at the nuts and bolts of supervision. Participants will discuss common ethical dilemmas that arise in supervision and examine California laws that are most relevant to conducting ethical supervision.
The Therapist’s Journey: Deepening Personal Understanding and Increasing Therapeutic Effectiveness
March 1, 2012
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
The workshop will facilitate a process of professional self-examination. Through a combination of lecture, discussion and practical exercises this course will examine the relationship between one’s professional practice and personal life. It will look at critical experiences that influenced participants to become therapists and those experiences that shaped their professional development. It will look at the factors that contributed to the development of one’s professional style and theoretical orientation. It will examine how participants structure their clinical work, focusing on how clinician’s set up rules and procedures that define the structure and tone of their practice and what emotional factors influence this decision making process. It will examine how an individual’s practice impacts his or her personal life, how his or her personality impacts practice and the tension in balancing the personal and professional aspects of life. This workshop will draw on contemporary psychoanalytic thinking including the work of Christopher Bollas, Stephen Mitchell, Judy Vida and Gershon Molad to help think about the tensions between the personal and professional aspects of self. It will delineate a model of professional Identity development based on how one deals with the wounded aspects of the self.
