LACPA's 2024 CONTINUING EDUCATION SERIES 

LACPA Member $150

LACPA Student/Post-Doc Pre-License Members $20
(No CE Credits)

Non-Member $190

Student Non-Member $35 (No CE Credits)

Carol Falender, Ph.D. is co-author/editor of seven books on clinical supervision and consultation and has presented workshops on clinical supervision, consultation, and multicultural supervision. She directed APA accredited internship programs for over 20 years and was Chair of the Supervision Guidelines Task Force of the American Psychological Association (APA). She was the recipient of a Presidential Citation from APA for innovative contributions to the theory and practice of clinical supervision, nationally and internationally and recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology Award from APA, and in 2023, the Division 29, Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, the Distinguished Award for the International Advancement of Psychotherapy, and The Chuck Faltz Lifetime Achievement Award, California Psychological Association, September, 2023. Dr. Falender is an Adjunct Professor, Pepperdine University; Clinical Professor, University of California Los Angeles, Psychology Department.

Course Outline:

9am-9:03 Intro by LACPA

9:03-10 Introduction, Competency-based supervision, definitions of cultural humility, trauma frame
Lecture, discussion, vignette, completion of supervisor self-assessment of supervision process

10am - 10:30am
Assessing Competency; Use of competence assessment in formative feedback and to enhance
self-assessment and respectful process in frame of cultural humility

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:30 Practice exercise, small group breakout, lecture (Educational Content):
Cultural humility, intersectionality in identities, infusion into all aspects of supervisory and clinical
practice; difficult conversations

11:30-12
Video review, implementation of supervision framework in setting; alliance formation

12-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:30pm (Educational Content): Dealing with Strains and Ruptures; Trauma Disclosures,
Metacommunication

1:30-2:30 :Trauma-informed clinical supervision, self-care

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45pm - 3pm (Educational Content):
Competence criteria issues, Supervisory dilemmas and approaches

3pm - 4:03 pm (Educational Content):
Supervisory ethical and legal dilemmas and reflective problem-solving frames

Q and A is throughout

Course Goals and Educational Objectives:  

Attendees will be able to:

Learning Objective 1.
Identify three components of the definition of competency-based clinical supervision in a frame
of cultural humility.

Learning Objective 2:
demonstrate the learning cycle including self-assessment and reflection processes in a spirit of
cultural humility.

Learning Objective 3:
Identify two components of trauma-informed practice in a competency-based framework.

Learning Objective 4:
Describe two behavioral aspects indicative of a strain or rupture to the supervisory relationship
and how to address those with cultural humility.

Learning Objective 5:
Identify three aspects essential to the supervisory contract that address the importance of a
respectful process and practice.