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Masterclass Purpose:

This is an AHPRA PsyBA-Approved Supervisor Master Class.

Master class (Part 4) has been developed for psychologists who want to maintain their status as a Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA)-Approved supervisor (Principal or Secondary).  Completion of this training will meet the requirements to maintain supervisory status for a further five years. 

Psychologists who are not a PsyBA-Approved supervisor, and supervisors/leaders/managers from other professions (e.g. Social Work, Counselling, Play Therapy etc.) and settings (e.g. CSS, NGOs, Family Services etc.) can use this workshop for general CPD purposes but cannot use this workshop to gain supervisor approval.

Masterclass Overview:

Working with children and families presents unique complexities for clinicians, supervisors and managers.  Children grow, develop and heal in the context of their primary relationships within which they live, learn and play.  This means that when working with children we are also working with the adults and systems around them.

This PsyBA-approved Master class provides participants with essential knowledge and skills in supervising child psychology practice. Applying a competency-based, child-centred, and systemic model of supervision practice that holds the child at the centre, supervisors will strengthen their capacity to support supervisee competencies and navigate legal and ethical issues that commonly arise.

Of particular focus is a framework for conceptualising the child’s needs within the context of their system, supervisor techniques for responding to common challenges raised by supervisees working with children, assessing supervisee competencies working with caregivers/systems, identifying and managing transference, countertransference and parallel process that occurs in the supervisory relationship, and supporting supervisee wellbeing associated with the impacts of working with children and families.

This Master class employs a range of experiential and reflective activities specifically designed for both supervisor development and for use with supervisees.  The nature of this approach intentionally draws on the parallels that occur naturally across the child and their system to provide embodied experiences for supervisors, and which they can harness in their own supervisory processes. 

Key Learning Objectives:

1)   Understand the goals, nature and functions of supervision in child psychology practice

2)   Engage supervisees in experiential processes to gain insight into the internal world of the child and how this informs practice

3)   Implement a competency-based, child-centred, and systemic model of supervision practice that holds the child client at the centre of clinical practice and decision-making

4)   Develop supervisee competencies of working with the parents/caregivers/systems around child clients

5)   Identify and respond to common cultural, social diversity, legal and ethical issues in child psychology practice6) Identify and support the wellbeing of supervisees for sustainability in working with children, with specific relation to interpersonal processes inherent in the nature of child and family work

Additional information for PsyBA-Approved Supervisors

AHPRA requires all PsyBA-Approved supervisor training to be competency-based. This means all approved training, including this one, require assessment of PsyBA-Supervisor Competencies.

This workshop includes both:

• Formative assessment activities (occur during the training) – e.g. engagement in reflective practice, listening and contributing to group discussion, role plays, and experiential activities; and
• Summative assessment (completed after the training) – completed Assessment Booklet. Please note, all sections of the Assessment Booklet are linked to activities undertaken during the training and some time is provided DURING training to document your reflections and responses. The final reflection of key learnings may be required to be completed after the training. Depending on your learning style, it should not take any longer than 10mins-1hr to complete the Assessment Booklet for submission (e.g. Reflectors may spend longer than other reflecting on/refining their responses).

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