Trauma-Informed Supervision: Evidence-based Strategies for Developing Ethical and Competent Supervisees

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Melinda Paige, PhD, LPC, CPCS, NCC Related seminars and products

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Melinda Paige, PhD, LPC, CPCS, NCC, is a licensed professional counselor supervisor and a national certified counselor who specializes in resilience and trauma. Dr. Paige earned a PhD in counselor education and supervision and has spent the last twenty years serving as a trauma-competent clinician and clinical supervisor.

Dr. Paige is also a clinical mental health counseling and supervision professor and subject matter expert for trauma impact and counseling curricula. She is the founder of the Institute for Trauma Competency and developed her Trauma Competent Clinician® model based on her qualitative research. She is the recipient of the American Counseling Association Professional Development Award, the Chi Sigma lota International Outstanding Practitioner Award, and the Chi Sigma lota International Outstanding Faculty Award. Dr. Paige has published and presented nationally on resilience and trauma-competent counseling and clinical supervision.

Known for her engaging teaching style, Dr. Paige offers both live and online training and consultation to mental health professionals in competency-based trauma mental health and resilience. Her professional expertise has also made her a sought-after media guest, and she has appeared on NPR affiliates and other national media outlets. She is the founding secretary of the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling, a division of the American Counseling Association.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Melinda Paige is the Founding Director of the Institute for Trauma Competency, LLC. She has employment relationships with Atlanta Relationship Institute. Capella University and Georgia State University. Dr. Paige receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Melinda Paige is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Association of Counselor Education and Supervision, the International Association for Resilience and Trauma Counseling, the Military and Government Counseling Association, and the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of Georgia.

 

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Objectives

1. Identify six principles of a trauma-informed approach to ethical decision making. 
2. Identify signs to be aware of in supervisee wellness and development. 
3. Determine how to assess compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue. 
4. Choose techniques to facilitate meaning making and self-reflective practices in supervision. 
5. Define the foundational trauma concepts of prevalence, trauma theory, and principles of trauma-informed-care.   
6. Utilize counsellor-centred supervision techniques as a method of trauma competent supervision.

Outline

Foundations of Trauma-Competent Supervision

• The ubiquity of trauma and physical and psychological consequences
• Critical aspects of competency-based trauma mental health
• Four components necessary for competent trauma-sensitive supervision
• Six key principles of a trauma-informed approach to ethical decision making
• A qualitative model of competency-based trauma knowledge, skills, and attitudinal conditions

Methods of Trauma-Competent Supervision

• A practitioner-centered approach to supervision
• Develop quality relationally-based supervisory alliances
• Trauma-sensitive supervision models and approaches
• Trauma-focused supervision techniques

Ethical Issues in Trauma-Specific Supervision

• The ethics of trauma-competency and professional disposition
• Ethical principles of self-care in clinical practice
• Ethical standards of self-care guidelines
• Six key principles of a trauma-informed approach to ethical decision making

Evaluation of Trauma-Competent Supervisees

• Trauma-informed practitioner competencies for supervisees
• Evaluate secondary traumatic stress/vicarious trauma in supervision
• Assess compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue

Prevent Vicarious Traumatization and Secondary Traumatic Stress

• Protective factors and strategies in proactive prevention
• Components of practitioner well-being and emotional safety
• Develop trauma-informed communities
• Signs to be aware of in supervisee wellness and development
• Research limitations and risks

Build Vicarious Resiliency

• Facilitate meaning making and selfreflective practices in supervision
• Recognize post-traumatic growth and resilience
• Assess positive effects of helping professions
• Facilitate reconnection and belongness

Trauma-Informed Beliefs and Attitudinal Conditions in Clinical Supervision

• Demonstrate an understanding of contextual and systemic factors
• Apply knowledge about cultural humility and adaptations for survival
• Demonstrate acceptance of unique trauma experiences and respect for client as expert

Beyond Self-Care: Restorative Practices in Clinical Supervision

• Mindfulness practices for grounding and tolerating abreaction
• Autonomic nervous system regulation in supervision
• Modulate ANS arousal with brakes and body awareness
• Facilitate therapeutic presence and reflective practices

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counsellors
• Therapists
• Art Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Physicians
• Nurses