Trauma-informed Supervision: Evidence-based Strategies for Developing Ethical and Competent Supervisees
The clinical supervision literature highlights exemplary practices in trauma mental health supervision, offering foundational principles and practices to support clinical supervisors. However, there is still a lack of awareness about these critical resources, and training in competency-based trauma mental health supervision remains absent from most graduate-level programs.
The ongoing physical and psychological consequences of traumatic stress have become a growing public health concern. As a result, practitioners in various mental health settings will likely work with trauma survivors. It is essential that their professional training includes both core trauma knowledge and supervision in trauma-focused clinical skills.
Professional Codes of Ethics require specialized training and supervision before engaging in clinical practice in any specialized area. Without evidence-based training to support trauma-specific supervisory practices, supervisors risk practicing outside the scope of their clinical competence.
Empirical research offers trauma-informed mental health supervision models rooted in exemplary practices in trauma mental health ethics and supervision. These models include trauma-specific guidelines, such as six key principles for ethical decision-making in a trauma-informed approach and four critical components necessary for competent trauma-sensitive clinical supervision. By integrating these essential elements into clinical supervision, supervisors can ensure they practice ethically and within the boundaries of their clinical competence, utilizing evidence-based clinical supervision practices.
Attend this workshop to gain a step-by-step framework for providing trauma-competent mental health supervision, including essential elements of trauma-focused care. These elements are shared across all empirically-based trauma-specific supervision models. You will learn how to incorporate this framework into your current approach to ethical decision-making and clinical supervision to enhance your effectiveness and improve outcomes with supervisees.
Join Melinda Paige, Ph.D., LPC, CPCS, NCC, as she provides the tools and techniques to elevate your clinical supervision outcomes in this trauma-competent supervision and ethics training—just as she has for clinicians across the nation.
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