Larry Brooks, PHD

Clinical Supervision

A Contemporary Psychoanalytic Approach

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 and change, and how we think about and describe what we do in 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 Ïnuts and bolts of supervision and examine California laws that are most relevant to conducting ethical supervision.

9:00 – 10:45  Conceptualizing Supervision: Part 1

1) Introduction -The map of supervision – delineating the elements of supervision

2) The Therapist’s Journey: The Establishment of a Professional Identity

3) The Evolution of a Psychotherapist: A developmental model

• Beginning Level
• Intermediate Level
• Advance: Integration and Professional Individuation

4) The Development of a Supervisor

10:45 – 11:00 Break

11:00 – 12:30  Conceptualizing Supervision : Part 2

1) The Relational Self

2) How people change

• Prochaska  Transtheoretical model of change
• Findings from psychotherapy outcome research
• Findings from Attachment theory

3) A Relational Model of Supervision

12:30 – 1:30     Lunch

1:30-2:30 Conceptualizing Supervision: Part 3

1) What we do

• The Tasks of Psychotherapy
• What Makes a Good Therapist
• What Makes Good Psychotherapy
• Inside A Therapist’s Mind

2) The Nuts And Bolts of Supervision

• Examining the supervision session
• Establishing learning goals
• Structuring the session
• Documentation of the supervision session
• Evaluation as process

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 –4:00    Legal and Ethical Issues

1) An Ethical Awakening

• Rationalizations for substandard practice
• Questions for an ethical self-evaluation

2) Guidelines For the Ethical Practice of Supervision

3)Recent changes in laws and regulations pertaining to supervision

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will learn a contemporary psychoanalytic framework for conceptualizing supervision.
2. Participants will make explicit their organizing principles that influence how they think about and conduct supervision.
3. Participants will learn the stages of supervisee development and ways to work with supervisees at different levels of training.
4. Participants will be able to identify effective and ineffective characteristics of supervision.
5. Participants will learn laws relevant to the practice of supervision and understand the responsibilities of supervision and ways to reduce risk.

Registration Information

Continuing Education: This conference is approved for 6 hours  of continuing education for Psychologists, Social Workers and Marriage and Family Therapists and meets the requirements for Supervisory Experience.

Fees: $140.00

Payment: You can pay online by clicking the Buy Now button at the bottom of the page or by  check. Please  make the check out to Larry Brooks Ph.D. and mail to 138 N. Brand # 300, Glendale CA 91203.

Refund Policy:  You will be refunded the fee minus $15.00 if cancellation occurs prior to 10/10/10.

Location: The workshop will be held at 138 N. Brand #300 Glendale, CA  91203.

Contact Information: Larry Brooks Ph.D.  (818) 243-0839 or drbrooks@drlarrybrooks.com