Supervision Training I
Presenter: Kim Dudley Lassiter, Ph.D.
Date: May 09, 2008
Participants will understand the extent to which clinical supervision is a core vehicle of training in mental health disciplines and a frequent professional activity for independently licensed providers; learn the fundamental role of the supervisory relationship in promoting professional development and ensuring ethical, efficacious service delivery; learn how to establish a context of safety in supervision, and how to promote discussion of difficult topics, such as individual and cultural differences, and mistakes made by the supervisee; learn what makes the supervisory relationship particularly vulnerable to conflict as well as ways of minimizing and managing conflict; learn the components and utility of a supervision contract.
Supervision Training II
Presenter: Kim Dudley Lassiter, Ph.D.
Date: May 16, 2008
Participants will identify different formats of supervision and understand the strengths and weaknesses of each; be able to list different methods of monitoring supervisee activity and identify the strengths and weaknesses of each; learn a spectrum of supervisory interventions and how to match these according to the level of the supervisee’s professional development; be able to identify the elements of evaluation and their function in supervision; be able to describe a variety of evaluation methods and their strengths and weaknesses; and learn the components of effective feedback and blocks to providing it.
Ethics
Presenter: Pam Reid, MSW
Date: Jun 06, 2008
This training will explore how we differ between our personal and professional values. Participants will examine how to differentiate between the two in order to make solid ethically sound decisions in our practice. The presenter will discuss how to develop and enhance boundaries, especially for those who work in rural areas, and what issues are common in practice. Participants will also have an opportunity to give case examples for discussions.
Threat Assessment
Presenter: Terry Kukor, PhD, ABPP
Date: Jul 11, 2008
This workshop will focus on the Secret Service model of threat assessment, which is patterned after the Exceptional Case Study Project, the Secret Service’s earlier five-year study of the thinking and behavior of individuals who carried out or attempted lethal attacks on public officials or prominent individuals in the United States since 1949. In June of 1999, the Safe School Initiative (SSI), a joint project of the Secret Service and US Department of Education, was undertaken to explore the potential for adapting the threat assessment investigative process developed by the Secret Service to the problem of targeted school violence. The SSI examined thirty-seven incidents of targeted school violence that occurred in the United States from December 1974 through May 2000, when researchers concluded their data collection.
Autistic Spectrum Disorder
Presenter: DeeDee Dransfield, MEd
Date: Aug 01, 2008
This three hour presentation offers the participants an overview of the characteristics most commonly observed in school-age individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and a description of several intervention strategies that can help support these individuals. The presentation will include a brief discussion of tools used to assess school-age individuals who have or are suspected of having an autism spectrum disorder.
