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Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors

  • 1st Edition - August 9, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Loredana-Ileana Viscu, Ioana-Eva Cădariu, Clifton Edward Watkins Jr
  • Language: English

Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors builds upon the current competencies schema to design a framework for training programs. The book's authors begin with a practi… Read more

Description

Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors builds upon the current competencies schema to design a framework for training programs. The book's authors begin with a practical program curriculum, addressing the challenges of treatment and workplace satisfaction. The next sections are divided based on transversal competencies, including intellectual order, methodological order, personal and social order, and communication order. The last section of the book is dedicated to ethics in both training programs and models for psychotherapy and clinical supervision.

Key features

  • Presents a practical training program for supervisors that includes program curriculum, requirements, and final evaluation procedures
  • Reviews ICT competencies in relation to clinical supervision
  • Includes two chapters on ethics in training programs

Readership

Psychotherapy students, counselling students, psychotherapists, counselors, psychotherapy and counselling Supervisors

Table of contents

I. TRAINING PROGRAM FOR SUPERVISORS1. The Competencies Schema2. Supervision models based on competencies3. Competency-based training program for supervisors developed by Vîșcu, Cădariu and Watkins

II. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE INTELLECTUAL ORDER TRANSVERSALCOMPETENCIES4. Updating with new information in the supervision domain5. Solving issues in supervision6. Learning, research, publishing studies in the supervision domain

III. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE METHODOLOGICAL ORDER TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES7. Managing individual and group supervision session8. Relational breathing9. Pedagogical competencies10. ICT competencies

IV. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL ORDER TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES11. Professional engine12. Professional model13. Becoming a myth

V. THE SUPERVISOR’S COMPETENCIES DERIVED FROM THE COMMUNICATION ORDER TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCIES14. Flexible communication. Multicultural communication, cultural humility and sensitivity in supervision15. Online and digital communication in live supervision. Case studies16. Email supervision

VI. ETHICS IN TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AND CLINICAL SUPERVISORS17. Ethics in training programs18. Ethical models in psychotherapy and clinical supervision

VII. THE MIXED STANDARD RATING SCALE FOR THE CLINICAL SUPERVISOR AND THE TRAINER SUPERVISOR’S VULNERABILITY – CASE STUDIES19. The Mixed Standard Rating Scale for the clinical supervisor – Study.20. Analysis between MSRS professional dimensions and the Competencies Schema (Vîșcu and Watkins, 2021)21. The trainer supervisor, the supervisor’s and the supervisee’s vulnerability

VIII. A PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH TO TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR SUPERVISORS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS22. Introduction to a pedagogical approach to training programs for supervisors and psychotherapists23. The professional training provider for psychotherapy/ supervision training programs24. Historical incursion on adult pedagogy and conceptual delimitations25. The trainers’ mentoring and coaching26. Adult pedagogy. Adult education. Educational strategies. Evaluation types.

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 11, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Loredana-Ileana Viscu

Dr. Loredana-Ileana Viscu is Vice-Rector of Tibiscus University and President of the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counselling and Clinical Supervision (IPCS), Romania. Dr. Viscu obtained her BSc from West University, Timisoara, and her PhD from University of Bucharest. She brings more than two decades of clinical psychotherapy experience and a decade of psychology teaching experience. Dr. Viscu’s areas of interest include clinician supervision in psychotherapy, integrative psychotherapy, and psychotherapy training. She coordinates training programs in integrative psychotherapy and integrative psychological counseling for children, adolescents, and families at the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counselling and Clinical Supervision. Dr. Viscu brings prior book development experience, including Elsevier’s Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors; A Guide to Clinical Supervision; and The Supervision Pyramid.

Affiliations and expertise
Tibiscus University, Timisoara, Romania

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Ioana-Eva Cădariu

Dr. Ioana-Eva Cadariu is Associate Professor at Tibiscus University, Romania. Dr. Cadariu obtained her MS from West University and PhD from Tibiscus University, Romania. Her work specializes in clinical supervision and psychotherapy, mental health, education psychology, social work, and clinical supervision. She is also engaged in research exploring the impact of artificial intelligence and digitalization on education, counselling, and psychosocial practice. Dr. Cadariu brings prior book development experience from Elsevier’s Competency Based Training for Clinical Supervisors.

Affiliations and expertise
Tibiscus University, Timisoara, Romania

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Clifton Edward Watkins Jr

Clifton Edward Watkins, Jr., is Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of North Texas, Denton, and a trainer and a supervisor within the Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling and Clinical Supervision. His primary professional interests focus on psychotherapy supervision and psychoanalytic theory, practice, and research. His specific supervision interests focus on psychoanalytic, trans-theoretical, and common factors perspectives. He is editor of the Handbook of Psychotherapy Supervision (1997), co-editor (with Derek Milne) of the Wiley International Handbook of Clinical Supervision (2014), and co-author (with Loredana-Ileana Vıscu) of A Guide to Clinical supervision (2021). He is a Fellow of Divisions 29 (Psychotherapy) and 17 (Counseling Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.
Affiliations and expertise
University of North Texas, Denton, TX, The Institute of Psychotherapy, Psychological Counseling and Clinical Supervision, USA

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