Clinical Supervision: An Evidence-Based Framework for Developing Competent, Compassionate, and Skilled Clinicians – Richard Sears

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Are your supervision sessions becoming routine? Does it feel like you are just checking a box? Or, do you find that your supervisees only know theory, and have trouble getting comfortable with moving experientially into the therapy process?

Clinical supervision is so much more than arbitrary case reviews and signatures!

Bring vitality and clinical value to your supervision sessions by infusing empirically-grounded principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, behavior therapy, and experiential exercises.

Help move supervisees from passive participants to curious, competent, flexible professionals by facilitating supervision using the SHAPE framework (Morris & Bilich-Eric), an accessible, contextual model that teaches supervisees to:

• identify when to persist and when to change what they do in therapy
• learn from experience and loosen strict rule-governed behaviors
• avoid getting caught up in struggles with clients’ thoughts and emotions
• construct the big picture of what therapy and supervision are all about
• take small action steps as key to creating a pattern of change
• engage in supervision on a deeper level as opposed to rote case review
• and more!

Through lecture, discussion, video, case examples, role play, and experiential exercises, expert presenter Dr. Richard Sears will bring the principles of ACT and other approaches to life with his wisdom, humor, and passion to help SHAPE your supervisees into competent professionals in your very next supervision session!

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1. Determine how the six core principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy apply to clinical supervision practices and goals.
2. Integrate supervisory strategies for helping supervisees develop psychological flexibility as related to case conceptualization and treatment implementation.
3. Develop clinical strategies for giving difficult and constructive feedback to supervisees.
4. Conduct a functional analysis of how the supervisee affects client behaviors.
5. Prepare experiential exercises to utilize in clinical supervision to enhance supervisee competence and address barriers to effective treatment.
6. Apply techniques to help supervisees be more present with clients, even with uncomfortable emotions.

Why Integrate ACT Principles into Clinical Supervision?

• What makes ACT so accessible?
• The 6 core principles of ACT
  • Being in the moment v. lost in the past or future
  • Accepting reality as it is right now
  • Noticing thoughts v. getting caught up in them
  • Connecting to a bigger sense of self
  • Making values-driven decisions
  • Taking meaningful action
• Limitations of the research and potential risks

The SHAPE Framework of Clinical Supervision

Supervision Values

• Clarify goals and big picture values for the supervision process
• Contract to create meaningful commitment
• Check in regularly on direction and goals of supervision
• How to give difficult feedback effectively
• Attending to the highs and lows of the supervisory relationship

Hold Stories Lightly

• How to help supervisees learn from experience to loosen strict rule-governed behaviors
• Attend to workability
• Monitor stories and encourage flexible responding

Analysis of Function

• How to foster curiosity about the context and function of client behaviors
• Functional analysis of how the supervisee affects client behaviors
• Attending to the context and workability of what happens in the supervision sessions

Perspective Taking

• Why it’s important to promote flexible perspective taking
• How to help supervisees notice variations of experience and perspectives across contexts
• How to take different perspectives of the same experience
• Building reflective ability by seeing things form clients’ and supervisor’s perspectives, and assessing workability

Experiential Methods

• Why it’s important to use experiential methods to increase sensitivity to client-therapist context
• Noticing the effects of describing versus evaluating
• What to do when the supervisee is stuck or when things are not working