Clinical Supervision: Avoid Pitfalls and Maintain Legal, Ethical Supervision
This course will provide an overview of the basic regulations and procedures surrounding supervision as well as the more subtle challenges a supervisor faces that sometimes cause trouble in the complex supervisor, supervisee, and patient relationship.

The topics covered will include:
• An up-to-date review of the laws and regulations pertaining to supervisors.
• An explanation of the new 2006 BBS Experience Verification Form.
• Techniques to foster growth in interns/trainees/associates.
• Ways to adequately assess what is occurring in an intern’s sessions.
• Strategies to assess for an intern’s “blindspots” and protect your license.
• Recordkeeping: how it protects you and how it impacts supervision.
• How to hire quality trainees/interns/associates.
• Common dilemmas & strategies for difficult situations in supervision.

This course provides 6 hours of credit and satisfies the requirements for the California Board of Behavioral Sciences mandatory Continuing Education course in Supervision Training for individuals supervising MFT Interns. This course also fulfills 6 of the 15 CE hours required for clinical supervision of ASWs.

Presented by Rocio Hernandez, MFT

Rocio, or "Cio", is an instructor for Gerry Grossman Seminars, Northern California Division. She is an Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner for Marin County Health and Human Services, where she specializes in Spanish speaking survivors of sexual abuse, teen pregnancy and issues of reproductive health. She is involved in many community building efforts in Marin County and has a small private practice in San Rafael. She is also on the Institutional Review Board for Kaiser Foundation Research Institute.