Upcoming Events

Anti-Racism in Clinical Supervision: Considerations for Practice and Research Dr. Alex Pieterse, Director, Institute for the Study of Race and Culture, Boston College, USA December 13, 2023 at 2:00pm (NYT) There is an increasing appreciation of the impact of racism on both the process and outcome of counseling and psychotherapy. Findings suggest that racism can negatively influence the utilization of services, the therapy relationship, the nature and efficacy of clinical interventions and overall treatment outcomes. Furthermore, some scholars have argued that accepted models of counseling and psychotherapy can be seen as forms of cultural imposition which are grounded in a Western/Eurocentric [...]

Caring for Carers: A clinical supervision program for mental health practitioners in humanitarian settings Dr. Ruth Wells and Colleagues, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney November 9, 2023 at 9:00am (NYT) An international team of clinicians and researchers will present a webinar about online group clinical supervision to support mental health workers in humanitarian settings. The session will involve an introduction to the context of supervision in Bangladesh and Syria and what the cultural and practical expectations are for supervision. We will then discuss lessons learned from an ongoing 2 year research study which examines the impact of supportive supervision on the [...]

The many faces of clinical supervision: Supervisees' perspectives on what helps and what hurts Dr. Heidi Hutman, Counseling Psychology, Temple University Wednesday, October 4, 2023, 1:30 pm (NYT) Clinical supervision is the central mechanism of training for helping professionals (Bernard & Goodyear, 2019). In spite of its centrality, the quality of supervision has been found to vary to a remarkable degree (Hutman et al., 2023). Thus, some supervisees report receiving supervision from relationally competent and knowledgeable supervisors whereas others report practices that fall short in significant ways, with profound implications for both themselves and their clients (Ellis et al., 2014, 2015). [...]