GENERAL AGENDA, TOPICS, & LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Opening Plenary:
Title: Overcoming Stress and Building Resilience
Speaker: Felicia Gibson
Description: This session will discuss the impact of secondary traumatic stress (STS) on mental health providers and clinical supervisors. Session attendees will engage in group discussion about empathic strain and explore strategies that support resilience and compassion satisfaction for instructors and leaders.
Learning Objectives :
- Upon completion participants will be able to:
- Discuss the prevalence of secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue and burnout
- Apply theories of learning, wellbeing and resilience to current workforce stressors
- Enhance understanding of healthy coping mechanisms that mitigate the impact of provider burnout and promote quality engagement
Breakout Session A:
Title: Cultivating the Supervisory Alliance: Strengths, Stressors, & Solutions
Speaker: Theresa Palmer
Training Description: The quality and effectiveness of the supervision experience largely depends on the supervisory alliance. The working relationship between the supervisor and supervisee plays a critical role in the growth and development of the clinician receiving supervision. This workshop will explore various factors that enhance as well as impede the cultivation of a supervisory alliance that effectively promotes supervisee growth. Supervisory solutions for addressing counterproductive situations as well capitalizing on existing strengths will be explored, including the role of personal development in the context of supervision.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Identify key components of the supervisory alliance.
- Articulate stressors impacting the supervisor-supervisee working relationship.
- Develop strategies to overcome dynamics that are counterproductive to supervise growth.
- Explore aspects of the supervisory alliance that appropriately promote personal development in the context of clinical supervision.
Breakout Session B:
Title: Using AI in advancing clinical supervision with ethical considerations
Speaker: Michael Daniels, MSW, LCAS, CCS, LCSW-A
Training Description: As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in clinical care, clinical supervisors encounter the crucial task of ethically incorporating these advanced technologies. Attendees will explore dynamics of AI technology, the impact AI has on clinical practice, and ethical principles which guides implementation of AI interventions, emphasizing client well-being, privacy, and informed consent.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Discuss data privacy concerns and confidentiality issues related to AI in clinical supervision.
- Identify and examine biases in AI systems and their implications for clinical supervision.
- Review the importance of informed consent and transparency when using AI tools in clinical contexts.
- Identify legal and regulatory frameworks governing AI in healthcare.
- Identify ethical decision-making frameworks to scenarios involving AI in clinical supervision.
Breakout Session C:
Title: Sustaining Strength: How Clinical Supervisors Can Cultivate Vicarious Resilience
Speaker: Dr. Josalin Hunter
Training Description:
- Define vicarious resilience and differentiate it from vicarious trauma and burnout in clinical supervision.
- Identify strategies to cultivate resilience while supporting clinical social workers working with challenging cases.
- Distinguish personal supervisory style and recognize unique resiliency needs.
- Explore the impact of supervision dynamics on both the supervisor’s and supervisee’s well-being.
- Develop practical self-care and boundary-setting techniques to enhance professional sustainability.
- Implement strength-based supervision approaches that foster growth, hope, and resilience in supervisees.
Closing Plenary:
Title: Supporting Clinical Supervisors in Mitigating the Impacts of Secondary Traumatic Stress for Supervisees and Client Populations
Speaker: Dr. Sarah Reives-Huston and Felicia Gibson
Training Description: The recent mental health crisis has heightened the need for quality treatment, prevention and intervention services that support NC residents struggling with mental health and substance use challenges. With such a strong emphasis and attention being placed on the needs of client populations, often times the needs of the providers and the organizations providing those resources and supports are frequently overlooked. During the in-person Clinical Supervision Retreat, participants will expand their understanding of these concepts and engage with other Clinical Supervisors in case-based applications and exercises.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will:
- Apply theories of learning, wellbeing and resilience to current workforce stressors
- Enhance understanding of healthy coping mechanisms that mitigate the impact of provider burnout and promote quality engagement