Summary: <p>12 Things Counselors Need to Learn and How Supervisors Can Facilitate Them<br> Instructor: Dr. Dawn-Elise Snipes, PhD<br> Executive Director: AllCEUs.com, Counselor Education and Training<br> Podcast Host: Counselor Toolbox & Happiness Isn’t Brain Surgery</p> <p>Objectives<br> ~ Define 12 things counselors need to learn and discuss how supervisors can facilitate them<br> What Counselors Need to Learn<br> ~ How to attend themselves to the client's feelings, establish rapport, to demonstrate caring, compassion, and empathy<br> ~ How to find a collaborative, instead of combative, metaphor for treatment<br> ~ How to develop and monitor the therapeutic alliance<br> ~ How to marshal and enhance the potential for success through the use of<br> ~ social support networks<br> ~ community services<br> ~ family and community resources</p> <p>What Counselors Need to Learn<br> ~ How to avoid falling into conventional wisdom that when treatment does not meet the desired outcome it is the client's fault<br> ~ How to promote the client’s sense of personal control and empowerment<br> ~ How to focus on the future and the client's ability to overcome the past<br> ~ How to engage in brief therapy<br> What Counselors Need to Learn<br> ~ How to establish the affective qualities essential to counseling before launching into diagnostics<br> ~ How to adapt a relationship to different clients and their needs<br> ~ The earlier change happens in treatment the more likely will be a positive outcome<br> ~ How to identify not what the person needs, but what the person already has to work with</p> <p>How Can Supervisors Help<br> ~ Help is when the mind is present in the heart, when mind, body and spirit are integrated and when an individual is at peace with his mind body and spirit even if one of those elements is experiencing pain or suffering</p> <p>Supervisors need to<br> ~ Offer mystery, compassion, openness, and a simple presence instead of answers or being the expert<br> ~ Learn contemplative listening which means<br> ~ Being receptive to visual, auditory, kinesthetic and intuitive cues<br> ~ Without an agenda<br> ~ Without a compulsion to help<br> ~ The most important phrases a supervisor can learn are “I don't know” and “I could be wrong”<br> Establishing Supervisory Relationships<br> ~ Creating a contract involving mutually defined goals for both parties that allow for realistic accountability<br> ~ Establishing a working relationship which includes laying groundwork of trust and respect<br> ~ Assessing the counselor's clinical knowledge and skills and training needs using standardized instruments, transcripts and other methods of observation<br> ~ Setting learning goals for the supervision and a form of supervision training plan<br> Goals of Supervision should be<br> ~ Clearly stated, attainable, specific, measurable and observable<br> ~ In writing (individual development plan, IDP) and agreed upon by the supervisor and supervisee<br> ~ Contain specific action steps to bring about the outcome<br> ~ Contain specific procedures to evaluate the outcome<br> Individual Development Plans<br> ~ Include the following<br> ~ Expectations for supervision including<br> ~ the model of therapy<br> ~ the number and types of patient to be seen<br> ~ the number and duration of supervision sessions<br> ~ the techniques and interventions to be used<br> ~ The counselor's experience and readiness for the position including<br> ~ the counselor's base of knowledge<br> ~ his or her strengths and areas for growth<br> IDPs cont…<br> ~ Procedures to be used to observe the counselor and practice<br> ~ Procedures to be used to determine the counselor's reasoning, conceptualization, and decision-making skills<br> ~ Procedures to be used to evaluate the counselor<br> ~ Procedures to be used to intervene to help the counselor achieve supervision goa</p>
