1. Clinical Supervision in Child Welfare Practice
Presentation to Steering Group
October 24, 2005
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2. Ideas emerging from other jurisdictions…
Transfer of learning is critical: need to keep providing learning opportunities long after the training has ended;
Successful design integrate collaboration with supervisors and empowerment strategies;
Desire to move supervision away from constant crises to planned quality time with staff members.
Clinical supervision training is becoming a ‘hot topic’ issues in the child welfare field: Alberta is also exploring clinical supervision curriculum design.
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Kentucky Model
Four States participating in the Model: Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri;
Intent is to design a ‘hybrid model of supervision’;
Study is examining organizational culture as a result of the training;
Transfer of learning is critical: Arkansas hired two full-time mentors to provide support to supervisors;
Mississippi has the best ‘buy in' as they did focus groups to design the curriculum;
Professor Crystal Camargo-Collins can come to Toronto as part of the study’s dissemination.
Added that Arkansas developed a supervisory assessment tool and on-line tutorials.
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4. Mississippi Model Part of the Kentucky Supervision Research Project
Held a focus group with a group of supervisors and then used this group as a team to design all aspects of the curriculum;
The team indicated that if you want supervisors to be good clinicians, you first need to educate them about being a good leader. First module focuses on leadership issues and other modules include cultural competency, boundary issues, vicarious liability…designed a series of modules;
Curriculum design ideas: have the group bring in their own challenging scenarios (anonymously), chart your career path, role play good and bad scenarios,
Senior managers attended all of the training;
Cultivate trust and respect in the learning environment
Kim Shackelford, professor at the University of Mississippi is willing to act as a consultant for the development of our training series. She will check to see if they will sell any of their curriculum, but doesn’t believe they can as the material is part of a research study.
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5. Research Study in New York State
Article did a three year review of supervisory outcomes following clinical consultation program;
The objectives of the training curriculum is to enhance supervisors ability to:
Coach and mentor staff in sound decision-making practices;
Convene and facilitate permanency planning case conferences;
Improve practice in the development of child-centred culturally relevant safety and permanency plans.
Curriculum designed using focus groups and needs assessments;
Heavy involvement from university faculty;
10 session format that involved participants bringing challenging clinical issues to the consultation; Katharine has a conference call scheduled with the author of the study on October 28.
Focused on the development of strengths based supervision that is planned out and not always crisis driven.
Katharine has contacted the author for more information on the design of curriculum.
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Emerging Ideas
Katharine has access to a digital camcorder and would like to videotape role plays and a clinical supervision session. She has put together a ‘demo’ for review;
Integrate a Needs Assessment questionnaire for supervisors prior to the training. This questionnaire would be anonymous but would provide information about the participant’s skill level and desired learning objectives. Supervisors can submit anonymous scenarios that they find challenging that could be integrated into the curriculum design;
Clinical Supervision Website—On the OACAS website? With readings, links etc? Tool kit on-line?
Supervisory Tool Kit that could go on-line
Demo is still being formatted by the AV person at OISE, U of T. Submitting scenarios was a key part of the Mississippi training model.
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7. Feedback others on Curriculum Design
Move away from lecture format into more interactive scenarios such as role plays, and case vignettes;
Provide this training to all supervisors in all service areas (protection, foster care, adoption)
Don’t put the manager in the role of mentoring the supervisor following training. Transfer of learning is critical but using the supervisor’s manager may become problematic.
Feedback came from members of the steering committee and the training advisory committee. Professor at University of Kentucky indicated that using the manager as coach could become problematic.
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Supervisory Tool Kit
Material taken from Carleton Munson’s book on Clinical Supervision:
Practitioner Self-Assessment Form is designed to focus on clinical aspects of a case;
Supervisee Bill of Rights
Website links—K.Dill still pulling together
Annotated Bibliography to be written K.Dill
Put the tool kit on-line—Web Ct?
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9. Proposed Design Changes
Curriculum is divided into six sections:
Section Two: Clinical Supervision in Child Protection;
Section Three: Defining Supervision in Child Welfare Practice
Section Four: The Parallel Process in Clinical Supervision
Section Five: Clinical Group Supervision
Section Six: Self Reflective Practice
Katharine has begun to format the curriculum. She needs the group or individuals who can help to edit and formulate the documents.
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Chapter Two: Introduction to Clinical Supervision in Child Welfare Practice
ACTIVITIES:
Introductions
Explore the fundamental elements of social work supervision: administrative, educational and clinical
Review the curriculum outline with participants
Review of core competencies for training
Have them start out with the career path exercise…what led them to their path of becoming a supervisor in child welfare practice?
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11. Chapter Three: Defining Clinical Supervision in Child Welfare Practice
ACTIVITIES:
Group Exercise: What does clinical supervision mean to you?
Balancing the role of the supervisor: Rocci’s suggestion of exploring how to balance the role of the administrative, clinician and educational supervisor;
Clinical Supervision Role Play: Katharine has done a video clip. Can be used as a way of providing an example to the group.Integrate Allan Moyle’s notes re exploring clinical themes and issues;
Role plays: groups are given vignettes and role play the scenarios;
Homework Assignment: Review articles and present them to large group following morning. Done in training session.
Or conversely, ask people to submit a scenario as part of their needs assessment survey that we send out ahead of time. This would be a great way of integrating their own learning. Be specific that scenarios need to focus on clinical issues such as the parallel process, challenging case situations etc.
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12. Chapter Four:Clinical Group Supervision
ACTIVITIES:
Small group discussion about how individuals integrate clinical supervision into a team setting;
Katharine would like to actually videotape a role play with a team. Use it as a discussion tool for the group. She has a good case example that addresses parallel process.
Role play would form the basis for promoting discussion about the elements of group supervision, team dynamics and stages of group development.
Katharine needs a team to do the role play with and video tape the event. If anyone can ‘lend’ Katharine a team, that would be helpful!
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13. Chapter Five: The Parallel Process in Clinical Supervision
ACTIVITIES:
Video clip is used as a demonstration of the issues and then people move into small groups and role play the following scenarios:
Building collaborative relationships with resistant clients;
Promoting effective use of power and authority in working relationships with clients;
Understanding and integrating the parallel process in clinical supervision
Bring themes and ideas back to the larger group
Again, use scenarios from the group on these various topics. Have them submit scenarios on the first day or again as part of the needs assessment letter
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14. Chapter Six: Self Reflective Practice
ACTIVITIES:
Write a letter to yourself focusing on one or two key areas that you wish to continue in your clinical practice and one or two issues that you wish to change.
Other suggestions here?
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Next Steps
We need to go through and carefully edit each of the curriculum chapters;
Group supervision role play—needs actors
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16. Preparing for the Focus Group Sessions
Dates selected for the focus group sessions are: November 15 and November 22;
How many participants from which service areas?
We need to decide what material we send to the participants ahead of time;
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