This comprehensive 2-hour training is designed for clinical supervisors, therapists, counselors, and mental health professionals who want to enhance their skills in managing the crucial process of supervision closure. Attendees will explore different types of supervision termination, including planned closures, voluntary departures, involuntary terminations, and the decision-making involved in extending supervision periods. Through a combination of interactive discussions and exercises, attendees will gain practical tools to navigate these challenging situations with confidence and ethical integrity.
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to
- Differentiate between various types of supervision closure, including planned closure, voluntary termination, involuntary termination, and extended supervision, and understand the unique challenges and considerations associated with each.
- Apply best practices for conducting supervision closure, including ensuring a sense of completion, providing growth opportunities, addressing parallel processes, and maintaining cultural competence throughout the closure process.
- Improve their ability to navigate ethical considerations during supervision closure, including maintaining appropriate boundaries, handling confidentiality issues, and addressing potential dual relationships post-supervision.
Syllabus:
Introduction: Recognizing that endings in clinical supervision can be complex and emotionally charged, today’s webinar is designed to help you navigate one of the most critical and often overlooked aspects of clinical supervision: how to end the supervisory relationship effectively, ethically, and with care.
Objective #1: Differentiate between various types of supervision closure, including planned closure, voluntary termination, involuntary termination, and extended supervision, and understand the unique challenges and considerations associated with each.
- Planned closure
- Voluntary termination
- Involuntary termination
- Extended supervision
Objective #2: Apply best practices for conducting supervision closure, including ensuring a sense of completion, providing growth opportunities, addressing parallel processes, and maintaining cultural competence throughout the closure process.
- Ensuring completion
- Facilitating growth opportunities
- Addressing parallel processes
- Maintaining cultural competence and humility
- Case study: Supervision Closure Session
Objective #3: Improve their ability to navigate ethical considerations during supervision closure, including maintaining appropriate boundaries, handling confidentiality issues, and addressing potential dual relationships post-supervision.
- Maintaining appropriate boundaries
- Handling confidentiality
- Addressing multiple relationships
- Ethical documentation
Summary/Q&A
Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical asynchronous continuing education credits.
For other board approvals, this course qualifies for 2 Clinical continuing education training.
Instructor: Ericka Cables, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, ACS
Recording Date: August 30, 2025
CEUS On-Demand, LLC, provider #2274, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/7/2026 - 08/6/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 2hrs Clinical continuing education credits.
CEUs On-Demand, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7091. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEUs On-Demand, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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