Qualified Supervision Training (QST)

Description: This course meets State of Florida education requirements for LMHC, LCSW, & LMFT to become credentialed as Qualified Supervisor. This course also meets the Florida Certification Board of Addiction Professionals for Ethics and Professional Development Core Competencies. This dynamic and interactive training will provide you the tools and information that are essential for providing supervision to developing professionals in the field of mental health.

CE Broker Tracking #: 20-922830

This event is sponsored by FMHCA, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. FMHCA NBCC Provider# 2058. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  FMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW – FMHCA CE Broker #: 50-748

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will review ethical standards relevant to clinical supervision
2. Participants will explore liability issues related to clinical supervision
3. Participants will learn practical approaches to supervision recordkeeping
4. Participants will role play challenging supervisory situations
5. Participants will learn ways to help supervisees develop theoretical conceptualization skills
6. Participants will learn approaches to multicultural and diversity supervision
7. Participants will become familiar with the major models of supervision for clinical social work, marriage and family therapy or mental health counseling;
8. Participants gain skills to develop a personal model of supervision, drawn from existing models of supervision and from preferred styles of therapy
9. Participants has tools and skills to consider becoming a supervisor and (for those of you who are supervisors) strengthen your meetings with interns
10. Participants will understand the co-evolving dynamics of therapist-client and supervisor-therapist-client relationships
11. Participants will explore distinctive issues that arise in supervision
12. Participants will address the contextual variables in practice such as culture, gender, ethnicity, power and economics
13. Participants will become familiar with the ethical, legal and regulatory issues of supervision
14. Participants will review the Florida laws and the board rules governing interns and supervision
15. Participants will understand the role of evaluation in supervision
16. Participants will answer the Who, What, and Why of supervision

Scott Jones has been training and teaching for 10 years and owner of New Directions Counseling since 2013.  He relies on interaction and uses questions along with group scenarios to guide and train and looks for input from the class.  He recently is certified as a Florida Supreme Court Mediator/Arbitrator and is currently supervising 10 interns and has a 100% passing rate of the LMHC exam due to training during the internship.  He also gives quarterly LMHC exam group face-to-face meetings in Dr. Phillips which is in Orlando.  He is also available for consultation in starting private practice with experience of assisting two other providers with starting their own private practice that continues to grow.