Jane Roiter Sunday Morning Seminar
“The Challenging Supervisee: Empathic Interventions ”
Date:  January 25, 2009
Despite a desire to learn clinical skills and be helpful to their patients, some supervisees also have cognitive or emotional limitations, characterological problems, or life circumstances which create significant impediments to their engaging in effective and/or responsible clinical work. Supervisors then face the challenge of offering effective feedback, promoting understanding, setting appropriate limits, managing the supervisee’s anxiety and self-esteem, balancing (when relevant) administrative and clinical demands, and/or making a referral for treatment, all the while maintaining a sufficiently empathic alliance with the supervisee that neither the client’s treatment, the supervisee’s learning, nor the supervisor’s own sense of what is necessary and responsible is sacrificed. This presentation will offer some possibilities, via concepts and illustrative examples, of how this daunting challenge might constructively be approached, followed by open discussion of situations and issues of particular interest to the participants.

Featuring:

Jill R. Gardner, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Chicago, where she is a frequent presenter of continuing education programs. Dr. Gardner is interested in the application of self psychology to diverse clinical settings and has published papers in self psychology on brief treatment and on supervision. She presents frequent workshops and in-service programs on these topics. She also teaches self psychology in the master’s degree program at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and is a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Clinical Social Work in Chicago. Before turning full time to clinical practice and teaching activities, Dr. Gardner spent 20 years directing programs in a hospital-based community mental health center in Chicago. 

   
Date: January 25, 2009
   
Time: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Registration begins at 9:00)
   
Cost:
$ 50 ISCSW members and students

$ 60 Non-members
   
Location:
Center for Practice Excellence
Jewish Child & Family Services
255 Revere Drive, Suite 200
Northbrook, IL 60062
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