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40 Hour LPC LMFT Supervisor Training 2023

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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This forty-hour post-graduate program is designed for professional counselors who wish to provide clinical supervision to mental health trainees gaining experience hours toward licensure. Lessons will help participants learn clinical supervision models, practices, and processes in order to successfully demonstrate understanding through quizzes, a completed supervision contract, written reflections, and presentations utilizing technology.

Program Learning Objectives

Program lessons focus on critical information needed to successfully supervise post-graduate trainees including:

  1. Foundational and well-established counseling theories, principles, and techniques of counseling and their application in mental health settings. Topics include wellness and prevention within counseling and treatment, crisis intervention techniques for counselors to use in response to disaster or other rapid onset trauma-causing events, and distance counseling.

  2. Issues and trends in a multicultural and diverse society that impact professional counselors, the counseling profession and assessment and evaluation in counseling practice. Topics include roles and processes related to counselor advocacy on behalf of the profession and the client.

  3. Counselor professional identity and practice issues including professional functioning as a post-graduate-level counselor and self-assessment to address areas for ongoing professional growth. Topics include ACA ethical codes and Texas state and US federal conduct standards in professional counseling.

  4. Ethical decision-making models directly related to counseling practice Texas state licensure, and related mental health public policy. Topics include the counselor’s role and function as a member of an interdisciplinary team; the ethics of starting and maintaining a counseling practice including business-planning, quality control, service delivery, referrals, and ethical marketing; and effective and ethical utilization of social media.

  5. The counselor supervisor’s role and function as a professional consultant.

Program Goals

Participants successfully completing this forty-hour course will:

  1. Understand the basic principles and techniques of clinical supervision

  2. Know how to integrate supervisor roles (teacher, counselor, and consultant) and apply supervision models based on supervisee need and development.

  3. Comprehend practices according to federal and Texas state regulations, ACA, and AAMFT and how to incorporate them into a successful supervision plan.

  4. Successfully complete two written reflections, a supervision contract, and video role play demonstrating confident application and understanding of foundational and well-established models of supervision.

CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION

Lessons with quiz - 16 Hours

  • Orientation to Supervision and the 2023 40 Hour Supervisor Training Course 1 CE Hour

  • Developmental Models of Supervision and ACES Best Practices  3 CE Hours

·      Ethical and Legal Issues in Supervision: Technology and ACA Best Practices  3 CE Hours

  • Theories of Counseling and Supervision  3 CE Hours

  • Ethics of the Supervisory Relationship and Counselor Development 3 CE Hours

  • Privacy and Security Training for Counselors and Staff 3 CE Hours

Interactive assignments (instructor will give feedback) – 24 Hours

  • Contract and Plan Project: Create a supervision contract and plan based on most recent Texas license rules, then using technology present the final draft of the supervision contract and plan based on grader feedback 7 CE Hours

  • Roles, Interventions, and Evaluation Project: Create a role-play based on a supervision issue and covering roles, interventions, and evaluation then film the final draft of the role play based on grader feedback 6 CE Hours

  • Reflection Project Ethics and the Multiculturally Competent Supervisor Evaluation and Remediation: Reflect on the importance of multicultural competency in supervision evaluation and remediation. Write a self-reflection focusing on future supervision practice.  5 CE Hours

  • Ethical Dilemma Analysis: Managing Critical Incidents in Supervision 6 CE Hours

This online course provides forty hours of continuing education in an interactive and asynchronous home study format. Home study course hours are calculated via written text (6000 words = one hour) and video (one hour = one hour).

Upon successful completion participants will receive a certificate via email indicating:

  • NBCC Hours: 40

  • Supervisor CE Hours: 40

  • Ethics CE Hours: 27

  • Technology CE Hours: 6

NBCC Program Content Requirements

Courses offered through Kate Walker Training LLC are rigorously reviewed and held to the highest standards:

  1. This program is directly and primarily about a topic related to the practice of professional counseling.

  2. Program information includes a clear statement of the program learning objectives requirement.

  3. This is an advanced course for licensed mental health providers and licensed mental health supervisors with a master’s or doctoral degree in counseling or related field.

  4. This program was designed Kate M. Walker, a licensed mental health professional with the necessary experience and knowledge in the topic(s) presented. Dr. Walker holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and she is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor in Texas.

  5. Kate Walker Training provides participants with a mechanism for evaluating our programs.

  6. Kate Walker Training provides participants who successfully complete the program with a certificate displaying the licensee's name, program title, date course was completed, the number of NBCC hours awarded (for applicable programs), the name and signature of the approved continuing education provider along with the NBCC ACEP number and contact information, including mailing address, telephone number, e-mail address and website address.

  7. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.

  8. We keep all continuing education record of attendance on file for six years (or more) and records are available upon written request.

Kate Walker Ph.D., LPC/LMFT Supervisor has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP # 7040. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Kate Walker Ph.D., LPC-S, LMFT-S is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Kate Walker Training LLC provides continuing education for mental health providers. Always check with your licensing board before purchasing a course for professional continuing education.

STATEMENT REGARDING ACCESSIBILITY OF COURSE RESOURCES

This online training is currently available in English only.  It is delivered via audible narration, video, and visual text.

Kate Walker Training LLC charges a fee for online training. All of the resources used to design the course are listed within the course, along with the resource URL where available. You do NOT need to purchase the Kate Walker Training LLC course to access those resources. Kate Walker Training LLC will not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from accessing those resources, nor hinder anything the listed resources’ licenses permit.

The open-source resources we have chosen for this course are:

Carlos and Audrey Video Clips.docx (19.4 KB)

·       Corey, G. (2013). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (9th ed.). Thomson/Brooks/Cole.

·       Crunk, & Barden, S. M. (2017). The Common Factors Discrimination Model: An Integrated Approach to Counselor Supervision. The Professional Counselor (Greensboro, N.C.),  7(1), 62–75. https://doi.org/10.15241/aec.7.1.62

·       Morris. (2003). A metamodel of theories of psychotherapy: a guide to their analysis, comparison, integration and use. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, 10(1), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.351

·       Nelson-Jones, R. (2015). Nelson-Jones' theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy

(6th ed.). SAGE.

·       OUMtext Author unknown.

·       Resources for supervision. SACES (Southern Association for Counselor Education and Supervision) - Resources for Supervision. (2020). Retrieved from http://www.saces.org/page-1360109

·       What's Mine Is Not Yours! School Districts Reminded Of FERPA's Sole Possession Exception.

(2017). Mondaq Business Briefing.*Article no longer available through link. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Education. (2008, November). Joint guidance on the application of the Ferpa and HIPAA (PDF) - ed. Retrieved from  https://studentprivacy.ed.gov/sites/default/files/resource_document/file/ferpa-hipaa-guidance.pdf

Recommended Texts and Resources:

Bernard, J. M., & Goodyear, R. K. (2013). Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision (5th ed.).

Pearson.

Fall, M., & Sutton, J. M. (2004). Clinical supervision: A handbook for practicioners. Allyn &

Bacon.

Halbur, D., & Halbur, K. V. (2018). Developing your theoretical orientation for counseling and

psychotherapy (4th ed.). Pearson.

Haynes, R., Corey, G., & Moulton, P. (2003). Clinical supervision in the helping professions: A

practical guide (1st ed.). Brooks/Cole-Thomson Learning.

Kendi, I. X. (2019). How to be an antiracist. One World.

Todd, T. C., & Storm, C. L. (2014). The complete systemic supervisor: Context, philosophy, and

pragmatics (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Son, Ltd.

Email

This course relies on email communication. We cannot be responsible if our emails go to your spam so please make sure you are able to receive email from the following addresses:

·      Email to submit your work: assignment@fortyhoursupervisortraining.com

·      Email to contact support: support@katewalkertraining.com

You will receive emails:

  • Within 24 hours of receipt of assignments with a message indicating the date of receipt. Assignments received after 5:00 PM on Fridays and on some national and religious holidays may be received the following business day.

  • Within 5 days indicating assignment needs more work, links aren’t working, or the grader cannot access the content.

  • Every 30 days and less informing you of time remaining. This is a courtesy only. Participants are encouraged to keep track of their own time remaining.

COURSE LENGTH AND LIMITS

  • Courses are updated annually. Old courses are removed from the website but not from purchaser’s profile. Once you purchase the course it is yours.

·       Your grader has 10 days to grade each assignment so plan accordingly. Grader may not grade assignments on holidays, weekends, and vacation days.

·       Updated March 7, 2023: In accordance with Texas LPC 681.147 (2) and LMFT 801.143 (2) you have 90 days to complete the course requirements. We cannot extend this time for you. Kate Walker Training begins the 90 day countdown from the date of purchase. Participants seeking the supervisor designation who complete the course after 90 days will receive a certificate indicating that the course was NOT completed within 90 days and they are ineligible for the Supervisor designation through Kate Walker Training.

·       Participants are still eligible for the Supervisor designation but because they cannot re-take or re-purchase the Kate Walker Training course, they must get their supervisor designation elsewhere.

·       Course cannot be extended due to grader, revisions, or life events.

ASSIGNMENTS

Written assignments must be submitted using Microsoft Word Doc or Google Docs. Submissions using pdf, Pages, and others will be returned to sender.

Presentations can utilize Power Point, Prezi, or similar software.

Video presentation technology moves fast and we are open to your creativity. You can use your phone and ask a friend to record you presenting. Zoom works great too. The only thing we need you to remember is video files are too large to submit as an attachment via email, so you must share links with your grader using file sharing software. We recommend Dropbox, Google docs, or an unlisted You Tube link, but there are other solutions out there on the web. Your grader will let you know within 5 days of receipt if the link is not working.

Note: The terms 'lesson,' 'lecture,' ‘assignment,’ and 'module' may be used interchangeably. The terms 'supervisee,' associate,’ 'trainee,' and 'intern,' may be used interchangeably.

1.     Orientation to Supervision and the 2023 40 Hour Supervisor Training Course 1 CE Hour

Directions: Participant will watch a lecture.

2.     Developmental Models of Supervision and ACES Best Practices  3 CE Hours

Directions: Participant will watch a lecture, read written material, and successfully complete a quiz.

3.     Ethical and Legal Issues in Supervision: Technology and ACA best Practices  3 CE Hours

Directions: Participant will watch a lecture, read written material, and successfully complete a quiz.

4.     Theories of Counseling and Supervision  3 CE Hours

Directions: Participant will watch a lecture, read written material, and successfully complete a quiz.

5.     Ethics of the Supervisory Relationship and Counselor/Marriage and Family Therapist Development 3 CE Hours

Directions: Participant will watch a lecture, read written material and successfully complete a quiz.

6.     Privacy and Security Training for Counselors and Staff  3 CE Hours

Directions: Participant will read written material, watch a lecture, and successfully complete a quiz.

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7.     Contract and Plan Project: Create and present a supervision contract and supervision plan based on the most recent licensure laws 7 CE Hours

Directions: Watch a lecture then create a supervision contract and plan based on most recent Texas license rules and submit as a first draft. Using technology present the final draft of the supervision contract and plan based on grader feedback.

8.     Roles, Interventions, and Evaluation Project: Create a script and a video role-play of a supervision session 6 CE Hours

Directions: Create a role-play based on a supervision issue and covering roles, interventions, and evaluation and submit as a first draft. Using technology film the final draft of the role play based on grader feedback.

9.     Reflection Project: Ethics and the Multiculturally Competent Supervisor Evaluation and Remediation 5 CE Hours

Directions: Watch a lecture, complete experiential activities and write a self-reflection paper.

10.  Vignette Project: Managing Critical Incidents in Supervision 6 CE Hours

Directions: Analyze three ethics vignettes. Write about each vignette from the point of view of the supervisor.