Clinical Supervision During Difficult Times *NEW*
Since time immoral, generations living through difficult times have said some version of the following in response to those times: “This isn’t new.”; “We’ve been here before, we’ll get through this.”; “We have to continue to make a way out of no way.” While, perhaps, comforting and hopeful during those times and now, what does it mean to be providing the service of clinical supervision during difficult times? How do we do it? In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the factors necessary to constitute a difficult time and the impact on the supervisor-supervisee relationship. Next, the inter-connected impact of their own personal and professional lived experiences, while also providing clinical supervision, will be explored. Lastly, participants will have the opportunity to “role play” being both a supervisor and a supervisee in scenarios of their creation to share better practices with one another on how best to navigate the role of clinical supervisor during these current difficult times.
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define the many factors present during difficult times and how they influence the supervisor-supervisee relationship.
- Interrogate these factors as they relate to their own interconnected personal and professional lived experiences, while also providing clinical supervision.
- Demonstrate better practices for navigating the role of being a clinical supervisor during these current difficult times.
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define the many factors present during difficult times and how they influence the supervisor-supervisee relationship.
- Interrogate these factors as they relate to their own interconnected personal and professional lived experiences, while also providing clinical supervision.
- Demonstrate better practices for navigating the role of being a clinical supervisor during these current difficult times.
Continuing Education Hour Pre-Approvals
Participants in this workshop are eligible to receive up to 3 CE Hours pre-approved by the following Minnesota licensing boards:
- Board of Social Work (BoSW): 3 Supervision CEs
Center for Practice Transformation – University of Minnesota has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7404. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Practice Transformation – University of Minnesota is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
About the Presenter
Shari L. Robinson, MSW, ACSW
Shari L. Robinson (she/her) is the sole proprietor for The Traveling Diversity Professor which, for nearly three decades, has developed and provided strategic and equity-based knowledge and skill building educational opportunities for non-profit organizations across the United States. With educational training in social work and anthropology, Shari was a professional social worker working, primarily, with older adults which included a private practice before retiring from direct practice. She also has decades of experience in higher education which includes full time and adjunct faculty roles developing and teaching social work and anthropology focused courses on anti-oppressive clinical practices, TBLGQIA+ and older adults. Additionally, she has held positions in faculty development, curriculum design, critical community service-learning, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and Inclusive Excellence at universities and colleges across Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota where she now resides. In her, spare but rare time, Shari enjoys cooking and eating spicy dishes followed by ice cream, though she often enjoys dessert first. She also enjoys growing plants and vegetables, watching British detective mysteries, reading, traveling, and consuming all things Star Trek and Afro-futurism.