565 Reflective Supervision – Online Course

Reflective Supervision is a process that provides opportunities for learning, mentorship and supervision through the establishment of relationships between supervisors, mentors, colleagues, supervisees, and students that are characterized by collaboration, reflection and regularity. The nature of the work in human services fields involves relationship- based, direct practice with children and families that wholly engages the emotions, spirit and intellect of the practitioner. Interactions between parents and their children elicit complex responses in practitioners. Expanding practice skills to include learning to be reflective in supervision or mentoring will provide the reader with a thoughtful, studied process to examine values, experiences, and the evolution of professional identity and practice.

570 Secondary Trauma Issues for CPS Supervisors: 3 hours

This half day training is designed to introduce supervisors of child protection workers to the concept of secondary traumatic stress and its effect on workers. Supervisors will gain an understanding of how CPS workers may be affected by secondary traumatic stress and how the supervisor’s role can be utilized to assist workers cope. At the end of this training, supervisors of social workers will have an increased knowledge of the definitions and dynamics of secondary traumatic stress as well as a greater understanding of the potential impact of secondary traumatic stress on CPS workers. Supervisors will have an increased comprehension of the role they play in assisting the worker to manage secondary traumatic stress and will develop an individualized plan to assist workers.