Culturally Relevant Supervision: Ethical Practice

This course meets EITHER the 6 hour BBS Law/Ethics requirement OR the BBS 6 hour Supervision requirement mandated for each 2 year license renewal. Use for CAMFT Supervisor Certification Renewal. Apply this course towards the new BBS 15 hour training requirement for new supervisors.

“A licensee can take a supervision-focused law and ethics course from an approved provider and can apply it to the law and ethics requirement as long as they are not also using it to meet the supervision training requirement. A single course cannot fulfill both requirements.”

BBS 6/8/23 email correspondence

This course focuses on culture as a lens through which we view supervision. Culture is broadly defined to include race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical ability, social class, body size and religious identification. The course explores ways to increase supervisor cultural awareness by describing a societal power grid, a social class training exercise and the concept of microaggressions as applied to race, sexual orientation and disability. An extensive case example is offered as a means to developing culturally relevant supervision. Attention to legal and ethical practice is reflected in each section with emphasis on boundaries, self-disclosures and power dynamics within supervision.

$62.00

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Credits:

6 Hours of Continuing Education Units for California LMFTs, LCSWs and LPCCs
You can apply this course to tthe BBS Supervision requirement

This course meets the BBS requirements for 6 CEU hours of Supervision training mandated every 2 years for supervisors of MFT trainees and associates, PCC associates, and ASWs. It may be applied to the 15 hour BBS supervision training requirement for new supervisors of AMFTs and trainees, ASWs and APCCs..

Who should take this course:

LMFTs, LCSWs or LPCCs who are supervising graduate students, qualified associates pursuing supervision in agency or private practice settings or those supervising agency staff
LMFTs, LCSWs or LPCCs who are supervisiing for the first time
LMFTs, LCSWs or LPCCs who provide consultation
LMFTs, LCSWs or LPCCs who are meeting the BBS Law/Ethics requirement
Potential supervisors
LMFTs, LCSWs or LPCCs accruing the 36 CEUs required by the BBS every license renewal period who want to expand their own psychotherapy skills
LMFTs, LCSWs or LPCCs who receive supervision or consultation

This course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs and LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Fee:

$62, with unlimited retries until course has been passed. Additionally, you may save your answers at any time during the exam and return to it later by logging back in.

Course Description/Syllabus:

This course focuses on developing culturally relevant supervision and approaches the topic from several vantage points. Culture is broadly defined to include race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, mental or physical ability, social class, body size and religious identification. The importance of supervisors’ active engagement with cultural material is emphasized. Legal and ethical considerations are addressed by referencing professional codes of ethics and through discussion of boundaries, self-disclosures and power dynamics within supervision. The course explores ways to increase supervisor cultural awareness by describing a societal power grid and a social class training exercise.The next section of the course describes obstacles to a culturally attuned supervision by using the concept of microaggressions as applied to race, sexual orientation and disability. Microaggressions that are specific to supervision are listed. Next, an extensive case example is offered as a means to developing culturally relevant supervision. This section ends with the exploration of whether self-disclosure is the only route to culture relevance and includes an approach to repairing derailed supervisions. Attention to ethical practice is reflected in each section.

Course Outline:

Part I: Legal and Ethical Mandates

American Counseling Association (ACA)
California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
Boundaries, self-disclosures and ethics
Competing ethical principles
Case example and discussion

Part II: Power Dynamics within Supervision

Role, cultural and individual power
Political correctness

Part III: Increasing Supervisor Awareness

Societal power grid
Social class as a variable in professional development

Part IV: Obstacles to Culturally Relevant Supervision

Microaggressions
Microassaults, microinsults and microinvalidations
Examples of racial, sexual orientation and disability microaggressions
Supervision specific microaggressions
Errors in cross-cultural supervision

Part V: Creating Culturally Relevant Supervision

Case example and discussion
Is self-disclosure the only way to address culture?
Repairing the supervisory relationship

Part VI: Resources

Course Objectives:

Discuss three aspects of culturally relevant supervision
Identify two legal or ethical requirements for culturally relevant supervision
Discuss two competing ethical principles
Describe three examples of power dynamics within supervision
Utilize a societal power grid and social class training exercise to develop three’ culturally relevant interventions
Identify four obstacles to supervision by using the concept of microaggressions
Describe three examples of how self-disclosure can assist in creating culturally relevant supervision
State two approaches to the repair of empathic breaches in supervision

Courses meet the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs and LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences

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Culturally Relevant Supervision: Ethical Practice