Supervision CE Courses for Social Workers

This course provides mental health providers with guidelines and ethical considerations for confidently addressing sexual health assessments and counseling patients on safe sexual practices. It covers the 7 P's of sexual health assessment, cultural competency for diverse populations, and practical strategies for promoting sexual health practices and managing sexually transmitted infections.

This course explains general ethics for behavioral health clinicians, including laws, rules, and guidelines, with CA state rules/regulations/laws/ethics being highlighted. The course describes what a dual relationship is and what steps to take if a dual relationship has developed. The course identifies appropriate boundaries within professional and patient-practitioner relationships, telehealth standards, considerations for working with substance abuse populations, and explores supervisory standards.

This two-hour course will provide an introduction to social media, the evolution of its utilities, who engages with social media, and what we currently know about its effects on users. Through empirical findings, we will consider whether excessive social media use can be described as an addiction. Case examples will be used to demonstrate some clinical implications of social media use and how to assess for and discuss a client’s experience of social media. Supervisory and ethical considerations will be explored.

This course empowers behavioral health clinicians with the necessary skills and ethical competencies for delivering integrated, evidence-based addiction care to patients undergoing medication-assisted treatment (MAT). A focus on confidentiality, MAT and general ethics including HIPAA and CFR 42, and supervision standards are addressed. Participants will explore substance use disorders from a neuroscience perspective, develop counseling best practices within interdisciplinary MAT settings, and cover topics ranging from harm reduction strategies to documentation of medical necessity, aiming to enhance support for individuals managing addiction and dual diagnoses.

This course covers current research associated with behaviors associated with addiction, particularly during the adolescent period of development. Risky behaviors will be explored based on the role of hormones and environment. Theories related to the development of addiction and problem behaviors during adolescence will be considered. Ethics and research supervision will be covered in addition to study design, testing hypotheses, theory formulation, and submitting a study for review to an institutional review board.

This course is the third course in a three-part clinical leadership series. This course discusses the difference between being a leader and leadership. This course addresses the qualities necessary for clinical leadership and how to establish yourself as a leader.

This course is the second course in a three-part clinical leadership series. This course focuses on clinical leadership and how emotional maturity and personality impact effective social work development. Additionally, clinical leadership as it relates to social work supervision will be discussed.

This course focuses on clinical leadership and how effective clinical leadership fosters effective social worker growth and development and social work supervision.

Great social workers are often expected to be great supervisors; however, supervision has its own skill set that needs to be learned and practiced. Through exercises and examples, this course explores some of the complexities in managerial and clinical supervision roles.

Supervision is essential to social work practice. This 3-course series addresses how to effectively serve as a social work supervisor and/or provide social work supervision. This modular focuses on the foundational principles associated with social work supervision, how to effectively supervise social work staff for optimal growth, and how to implement an empowerment model into social work supervision.