Syllabus

40 Hour LPC LMFT Supervisor Training 2024

Syllabus

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 written reflections, a supervision contract and plan, video role play demonstrating confident application and understanding of foundational and well-established models of supervision, and pass lessons with quizzes.

CONTINUING EDUCATION INFORMATION

Orientation to Supervision and the 40 Hour Supervisor Training Course 2 CE Hours

Foundations of Supervision Lessons and Quizzes 13 CE Hours

  • Ethics of the Supervisory Relationship and Counselor/Marriage and Family Therapist Development

  • Theories of Counseling and Supervision 

  • Developmental Models of Supervision and ACES Best Practices 

  • Ethical and Legal issues: Technology and ACA best Practices 

HIPAA and FERPA Privacy and Security Training for Counselors and Staff 2 CE Hours

Written assignments (instructor will give feedback) 23 CE Hours

  • Create a supervision contract and supervision plan first and final draft 8 CE Hours

  • Create a role-play of a supervision session 6 CE Hours

  • Ethics and the multiculturally competent supervisor: Evaluation and remediation 4 CE Hours

  • Managing critical incidents in supervision 5 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).

Kate Walker Training courses fulfill the Texas LPC and LMFT rules requiring that 50% of continuing education courses come from a designated provider type.

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

  • NBCC Hours: 40

  • Supervisor CE Hours: 40

  • Ethics CE Hours: 26

  • Technology CE Hours: 5

  • Multicultural CE Hours: 4

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:

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 from us:

  • Immediately

    • When the course purchased

    • If you use the learning management system to re-set your password

  • Within 24 hours

    • For assignments received Monday through Friday during business hours.

      This will be an email indicating the date your assignment was received and that it is in the grading queue. Assignments received after 5:00 PM on Fridays and on some national and religious holidays will be replied to the following business day.

    • For questions and support requests received Monday through Friday during business hours

  • Every 30 days

    • Courtesy automated emails informing you of time remaining to remain eligible for the supervisor designation through Kate Walker Training

COURSE LENGTH AND LIMITS

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

  • Fast track assignments will be completed in less than 48 hours during business hours. Grader may not grade assignments on holidays, weekends, and vacation days.

  • In accordance with Texas LPC and LMFT rules you have 90 days to complete the course requirements in order to be eligible for the supervisor designation through Kate Walker Training. We cannot extend this time for you.

  • Kate Walker Training begins the 90 day countdown from the date of purchase.

  • If you complete the course after 90 days you will receive a certificate indicating that the course was NOT completed within 90 days.

  • 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.

ASSIGNMENTS

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

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. Your grader will let you know if the link is not working.

Reflection papers are based on your thoughts and opinions and do not require citations, references, or APA formatting. Each paper must be in a Word or Google document.

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 40 Hour Supervisor Training Course 2 CE Hours

    Participant will watch a lecture, read material, and listen to recordings.

  2. Foundations of Supervision Lessons:

    Theories of Counseling and Supervision 3 CE Hours

    Developmental Models of Supervision and ACES Best Practices  3 CE Hours

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

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

    Directions: Participant will watch lectures, read material, listen to recordings and successfully complete a quiz.

  3. Foundations of Supervision Writing Prompt Assignment 1 CE Hour

    Complete assignment looks like: Completed writing prompt template addressing each of the writing prompts in each Foundations Lesson emailed to assignment@fortyhoursupervisortraining.com before the course end date.

  4. HIPAA and FERPA Privacy and Security Training for Counselors and Staff  2 CE Hours

    Directions: Participant will watch a lecture, read material, listen to recordings and successfully complete a quiz.

  5. Ethics and the Multiculturally Competent Supervisor: Evaluation and Remediation 4 CE Hours

    Directions: Write a response to each bullet in the module.

    Complete assignment meets the following criteria:

    Assignment emailed to assignment@fortyhoursupervisortraining.com before the course end date.

    Assignment addresses each of the bullet points specified in the lesson.

  6. Ethical Dilemma Analysis: Managing Critical Incidents in Supervision 5 CE Hours

    Directions: Write a response to each bullet in the module.

    Complete assignment meets the following criteria:

    Assignment emailed to assignment@fortyhoursupervisortraining.com before the course end date.

    Assignment addresses each of the bullet points specified in the lesson.

  7. Role play script and video based on a supervision issue and covering roles, interventions, and evaluation 6 CE Hours

    This is a two-part assignment.

    Complete Part 1 assignment meets the following criteria:

    Complete role-play first draft emailed to assignment@fortyhoursupervisortraining.com before your course end date.

    Supervisor and supervisee are clearly identifiable.

    Script covers the bullets outlined in the module.

    Graders have 10 days to make corrections and comments and email back to participant.

    Complete Part 2 assignment meets the following criteria:

    Presentation link must be emailed to assignment@fortyhoursupervisortraining.com before the course end date.

    Presentation link must be viable and audio and video are clear – if your grader can’t watch it they can’t give credit.

    Role play incorporates the grader’s edits.

    “Break the 4th Wall Moment” includes roughly one minute of you addressing the camera as YOU (not as your supervisor character) explaining your thoughts about becoming a supervisor

8.     Supervision Contract and Plan based on most recent Texas license rules 8 CE Hours This is a 2-part assignment.

Complete Part 1 assignment meets the following criteria:

  • Complete contract and plan first draft emailed to assignment@fortyhoursupervisortraining.com before your course end date.

  • Contract and plan address all the bulleted criteria in the module and if something isn’t applicable, state ‘not applicable.’

  • Contract and plan utilize the templates provided.

Graders have 10 days to make corrections and comments and email back to participant.

Complete Part 2 assignment meets the following criteria: