Overview

Clinical Supervision is one of the processes used to enhance counselling competencies and maintain professional ethical standards. This session will introduce participants to a Model of Supervision that is systemically informed and is reflexive in process. It will identify five areas of focus in supervision and will also present different tools used. Also discussed will be the relative strengths and limitations of each method.

Requisites

Prerequisites
PSC60015 Introduction to Clinical Supervision
PSC60016 Ethical and Legal Issues in Supervision

Rules

Pre-requisite
PSC60015 Introduction to Clinical Supervision
AND
PSC60016 Ethical and Legal Issues in Supervision

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Have knowledge of, and ability to work, within a Systemic Model of Supervision
  • Identify and describe the focus and outcome of supervision
  • Identify and describe different styles of Systematic supervision
  • Demonstrate the ability to work with process models in supervision

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Workshop		36.00 1 week 36
TOTAL36

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Class ExercisesIndividual/Group 10% 1,2,3,4 
EssayIndividual 70% 1,2,3,4 
JournalIndividual 20% 1,2,3,4 

Content

The areas covered include:

  • Systemic Theory and Models of Therapy in Supervision 
  • Goals and outcomes of Supervision
  • Different Styles of Systemic Supervision
  • Congruence of Model and Supervision
  • A process approach in supervision
  • Developing hypotheses systemic approach to supervision 
  • Case presentation and example of Systemic Hypothesis

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.