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When asked why is Clinical Supervision so important in my field and usually I provide a brief answer, but here is the answer! Clinical supervision is necessary for licensed counselors for several important reasons: 1. Professional Development: Supervision provides counselors with ongoing opportunities to improve their skills, deepen their understanding of clinical techniques, and stay current with new developments in the field. It encourages reflection on their practice and supports continuous learning. 2. Ethical Practice: Supervision ensures that counselors are adhering to ethical standards and maintaining professional boundaries with clients. Supervisors provide guidance on handling ethical dilemmas and can help ensure that counselors are working in the best interests of their clients. 3. Client Safety and Care: Supervisors offer a second set of eyes on the work counselors do with clients. This helps ensure that clients receive the best possible care by providing oversight, ensuring that interventions are appropriate, and addressing any potential risks or issues that may arise in treatment. 4. Accountability: Clinical supervision provides a system of accountability, which is important for maintaining high standards of practice. It ensures that licensed counselors are consistently providing quality care and addressing any areas of weakness in their practice. 5. Support and Feedback: Counseling can be an emotionally demanding profession. Supervision offers a space where counselors can debrief, discuss challenges, and receive feedback, helping them to manage stress, avoid burnout, and process their own emotional responses to their work. 6. Licensing and Certification Requirements: In many states and countries, ongoing clinical supervision is a requirement for maintaining licensure or certification. It ensures that counselors remain competent throughout their careers. 7. Professional Identity Development: Supervision helps counselors refine their professional identity, develop confidence in their therapeutic approach, and navigate the complex dynamics of therapeutic relationships. In summary, clinical supervision enhances both the quality of care provided to clients and the ongoing professional growth of the counselor.

What is #ClinicalSupervision? Clinical Supervision is a resource to support staff, managers and leaders in learning and development. What we mean by learning and development is not just paid or in house training courses, but to encourage and to empower you to creatively develop your knowledge in a range of different ways.   Although Clinical Supervision is recognised as a benefit and is mandatory for Social Workers, Psychologists, Therapists, Medical staff and Allied health professionals, it can be used really effectively for any Manager or Leader as part of development of their leadership skills, although this would be in addition to line management meetings. Positive Clinical Supervision will challenge your thinking and can also help you to recognise when you are getting stressed or burnout. Clinical Supervision is a reflective space for you to learn through reflecting on experience. With your clinical supervisor, you will work on how you react to challenging situations in the workplace and talk through alternative ways of looking at how others react to you. Clinical Supervision will assess how your workload maybe impacting on your mental wellbeing and help you to recognise how this may cascade down and impact on your team, and the wider organisational community. Clinical Supervision is a safe space to discuss how to develop your leadership, people and management skills, delegating and coping with having ‘difficult conversations’. Clinical Supervision is to support you to think creatively and 'out of the box'. Clinical Supervision is part of best practice outcomes for your patients and clients and for your development.  Your supervisor should be a resource of knowledge, so use them! Importantly, it is also to celebrate your achievements and help you to take compliments, rather than just seeing your role as 'doing your job'. Image credits: Jenn Maldonado

#ClinicalSupervision is a key resource for staff and leaders, promoting learning and development beyond traditional training. It offers a reflective space to enhance skills, manage stress, and navigate challenges while supporting effective leadership. It’s about celebrating achievements and fostering growth in a safe environment. #LeadershipDevelopment #Wellbeing #ProfessionalGrowth #MentalHealth #Support #ReflectivePractice #RewardAndRecognition #EmployeeEngagement

All too often staff in clinical roles founder when it comes to managing the challenges of professional relationships. There is the expectation that because you have achieved seniority and maturity in your role that you’ve got this sorted. Yet the differences between your colleagues are immense. From disciplines, genders and generations, to cultures, personalities and egos, or individual perceptions and expectations. How can you possibly know how to approach all these variances between people, or even realise that you should? It’s no wonder that attempts to resolve challenges may not go to plan. It’s not until something really starts to affect you that you might realise it’s time to do something about it. Whether that’s doubting your professional abilities, reduced confidence or self-esteem, or feeling undervalued or disrespected. Ruminating over previous events only serves to reinforce your beliefs and anxieties about the situation, so what can you do? You could ask for help! As it’s you this is affecting, it stands to reason it’s you that needs to make some changes. Not the person you have the beef with. I’m Jenny and I help senior nurses and AHP’s like you, manage the challenges of your professional relationships, so you can reduce stress and anxiety in the workplace. DM me for more information and to book a free call. #senior nurse #AHP. #coaching #professionalrelationships

I should write a blog post on the role of supervision in therapy: what it is and is not, how it differs from the notion of supervisors we expect from "I demand to speak to your supervisor" retail contexts (or should, at least). I have Very Strong Opinions on what constitutes good versus not-good supervision. And because I also practice what I preach in terms of a belief that it's NOT just beneficial for students and "qualifying therapists" (our field's version of "resident physicians", or "doctors in training"), this morning I've just signed on with a new supervisor of my own. It's a significant part of ongoing professional development to find people who can help see into our general blindspots as practitioners, as well as help hone specific therapeutic skills--in my case, deepening my work with the IFS model--and it's an aspect of our professional development that, in my opinion as both a therapist, a client of therapy, a supervisor, and once again a client of supervision, that should NOT stop as we advance our careers. I have been very privileged to work with some excellent (and very patient!) supervisors; they definitely set strong models for what I hope I bring to my own supervisees.

There are two types of "go-to" professionals. Type 1: early-career professionals who are proving themselves You've showed up at 110% in all of your training doing all of the scut work and all of the voluntary things that show you're serious. You absolutely say yes when asked to do things because you want to be a team player. And you're chalking all of this up to additional learning that will help you serve your people better. Type 2: established professionals who people depend on You've been doing this for a while and are familiar with the system within which you work. You know what the limitations are and, quite frankly, you're usually the one making up for these. You go above and beyond for your patients and clients, not for recognition, but out of your own standard of excellence. For both of these professionals, the ability to say no is key to protecting from burnout and resentment. I will be teaching how to say no to your clients & colleagues on November 28th at 7:00 PM EST. Send me a message and I will send you the Zoom link to join us live.

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S u p e r v i s i o n... is a process used in various professional contexts where the supervisor (us) offers a reflective and supportive space to the supervisee. The supervisor contributes specialist guidance, skills and knowledge, helps supervisees to develop confidence and skills as well as recognising those they already have and ensures ethical and sound practice.  Supervision can offer you... Guidance: Offering advice and direction on how to perform tasks or solve problems. Support: Providing emotional and practical support. Education: Enhancing the supervisee’s knowledge and skills through training and sharing of expertise. Feedback: Offering constructive criticism and appraisal of work to foster development. Evaluation: Assessing the performance of the supervisee to ensure quality, safe practice and adherence to standards and evidence-based practice. Monitoring: Keeping track of the progress and ensuring that procedures are followed correctly. Reflection: Thinking together about practice and all that impacts upon it Supervision is common in many sectors, including education, healthcare (such as counselling, nursing, or clinical psychology), social work, and various business industries. In some professions, such as mental health services, supervision is also an essential part of continuing professional development, where practitioners discuss their work with clients to ensure that it meets professional standards, helps the client move forward and helps with the practitioner's own personal growth. The role of the supervisor is not just to oversee work but also to foster a relationship that promotes career development, adherence to ethical standards, and improved outcomes for the organisation or clients served by the supervisee. Should you or your business require supervisory services, please reach out to us directly to schedule a free consultation. 📧 info@learnwithprism.co.uk 📞 01244 728 194 #Supervision #lifelonglearning #learnwithprism #freeconsultation

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