Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy

For those already supervising or intending to start offering supervision

A 10-month, post-qualification part-time (weekend) structured training programme of 120 hours’ CPD, aimed at counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, social workers, nurse managers, occupational therapists, psychologists, therapeutic community managers and case workers in organisational settings.

The Diploma in Clinical Supervision and Consultancy offers counsellors and those in the helping professions the opportunity to develop therapeutic supervisory skills. This represents primary preparation for supervisor recognition as well as an opportunity for continuing professional development for practising supervisors. Course participants may already be supervising, be expected to supervise as part of their employment role or may be new to supervision.
The course was initially set up to meet the needs of supervisors who, in the absence of training courses in supervision and being experienced therapists, simply exercised supervision as an extension of their therapeutic skills. However, our view is that the supervisory relationship requires more than therapeutic skills – not every good therapist is necessarily a good supervisor!

The training focuses on core competencies for supervisors, which are different from therapeutic skills. The teaching also recognises the consultative and relationally-based aspects of supervision. The course content has evolved over recent years and many leading practitioners in the field have contributed to its current shape.

The teaching philosophy is integrative – practitioners representing a wide range of theoretical orientations are invited to apply. We aim to establish a multidisciplinary environment where theoretical differences and similarities are encouraged and where trainees can learn from each other as well as from the course tutors.

The course culture is explicitly “high support” and “high challenge”.

Course directors: Bernd Leygraf and Judi Keshet-Orr. Additional tutors include Professor Ernesto Spinelli, Professor Darian Leader, Richard Simpson, Anita Sullivan, Jinny Fisher

When
February 2009 - December 2009
The dates in 2009 are below, 10am - 5pm each day:
Friday 6, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February
Friday 6 and Saturday 7 March
Friday 27 and Saturday 28 March
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 May
Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June
Saturday 4 July
Friday 25 and Saturday 26 September
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 October
Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November
Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December

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