Tools for Getting Unstuck in Clinical Supervision

Date: 17^th FEBRUARY 2025 (Registrations close 13th Dec 2024)         

Overview:

This webinar workshop explores how to address stuckness within a competency-based and reflective
supervision approach. The workshop uses video vignettes to highlight stuckness and rupture in the
supervisory relationship, which can present in terms of resistance, disengagement or lack of
progress. The workshop provides frameworks and processes to (re)establish safety, align goals, and
helpfully challenge supervisees to promote professional growth and safe and effective practice.
Participants are guided through experiential exercises to consolidate learning into everyday
supervisory practice.

In relation to the Psychology Board of Australia’s (2018) six supervision competencies, this workshop
provides:
1. Knowledge and skills-building in relation to models of supervision, contracting, agenda
setting, monitoring, and evaluation.
2. Knowledge and skills-building regarding the supervisory relationship, and particularly how to
enhance the relationship, address ruptures, and promote safe and effective supervision.
3. Practice in facilitating and providing feedback that addresses supervisee’s competencies.
4. Practice is using measures to evaluate the supervisory process.
5. Practice in establishing a supervisory frame that acknowledges cultural and social diversity.
6. Practice in considering ethical issues within the supervisory relationship and establishing a
safe supervisory relationship that invites genuine disclosure from supervisees.

Learning Outcomes:

At the completion of the workshop, participants will be able to:
• Describe how to promote safe and effective clinical supervision.
• Demonstrate alliance building, repair, and maintenance skills in supervision via pair and
small-group exercises.
• Demonstrate use of frameworks and models to guide supervisory process.
• Demonstrate use of feedback and measures to promote safe and effective supervision.

Methods/Activities:

The workshop is conducted in one-day and two half-day webinar formats (maximum 24 attendees)
and utilises adult learning principles (7 hours CPD). For larger groups, Helen Donovan (administrator,
RST) assists with managing breakout rooms and participants with any IT issues:
• Pre-reading of key materials and preparation of reflective material via Notable Incident.
• Discussion of participants workshop goals and relevant previous experience.
• Interactive didactic presentation of evidence-based content.
• Small group discussions of key concepts.
• Live and video demonstrations.
• Pair and small group experiential exercises.
• Larger group reflections of key content and learning from exercises.

Evaluation:

Psychologists wanting to update their Psychology Board of Australia Board-Approved Supervisor
status need to meet each of the three criteria below to be issued with a Certificate of Competence
for the Board. Other practitioners will be provided with a Certificate of Attendance for Continuing
Professional Development, regardless of whether they complete the below evaluation.

There are three (3) methods of evaluation to help participants to consolidate workshop materials,
and to ensure that participants have demonstrated competence:
• Demonstration of reflective supervision skills (via pre-workshop Notable Incident exercise
and experiential exercises in workshop).
• Demonstration of knowledge via achieving at least 80% on a post-workshop multiple-choice
assessment task (10 questions).

Presenter Details:

Dr Mark Donovan is lead-trainer and co-partner of the Reflective Supervision Team. Mark has
previously worked in University and Health Service settings in Australia and the UK, and has over 30
years of practice as a registered clinical psychologist. Mark has presented at national and
international conferences and workshops on a range of topics over the past 25 years, including
clinical supervision, mindful parenting, cognitive behavioural therapy, acceptance and commitment
therapy and narrative therapy. Mark enjoys bringing workshop materials to life through interactive
discussions, practical examples, live demonstrations and skills practice.

Registration:

This event is open to SRP Approved Supervisors and non-SPS members who are clinical supervisors in the mental-health sector. Participants should possess minimally, a Post-Graduate Degree in Psychology or Counselling.

To register:

Write to srp@singaporepsychologicalsociety.org

Provide:
Full Name:
SPS Membership Number (Optional):
SRP Membership Number (Optional):
Company Name:
Area of Specialization:
Number of Seats:

Workshop Fees:
The fees for the event are as follows:
$280 SPS members
$350 non-SPS members

Registration for this workshop is on a first-come first-served basis, and will close on 13th Dec 2024.