Digital Technology & Clinical Supervision AND Overcoming the Games Played in Supervision

When both days are taken together, this course fulfills the 14-hour training requirement mandated by the Virginia Board of Social Work to provide clinical supervision for LCSW candidates.  Participants may register for ONE Day of the training to meet the 7-hour training requirement for supervision training renewal. The Virginia Board of Counseling requires 20 hours of approved training to supervise LPC candidates. *Participants who have previously taken a 14-hour course from NASW-VA (within the last calendar year) and wish to take an additional one-day course may qualify for a discounted one-day registration rate. Please call the Chapter Office at 804-204-1339 for more information.

During this highly interactive seminar, attendees will engage with other professionals to strengthen their foundation of today’s best practice knowledge and enhance their skills to function effectively in the critical role of clinical supervisor. Day 1 explores the ethical divide of digital technology in supervision, while Day 2 focuses on the games played in supervision.


Day 1: Mastering the Ethical Divide of Digital Technology and Clinical Social Work Supervision (7 CE Hours, Includes 7 Hour Ethics)

Evolving challenges transverse social work ethics and practice. While implications exist for all practitioners, digital technology has brought heightened risk for clinical social work supervisors. Ethical dilemmas abound from conflicts of interest and dual relationships, to state to state disparities of licensure scope, plus privacy and confidentiality. Effective supervisory oversight is essential for managing the current ethical disrupters of:

• Technology proficiency
• Appropriate use of social media and electronic communication
• Mandatory duty to warn situations,
• Industry demands for interstate practice and licensure portability

Professional liability for both the supervisor and supervisee is paramount. How does one effectively juggle all these moving parts?

Engage in an innovation, interactional, and informative seven hour training that blends new knowledge, with industry scenarios and application of the latest professional resources, including the 2017 Technology and Social Work Practice (NASW, ASWB, CSWE, CSWA, 2017) and the NASW Code of Ethics. With change the only constant in our industry, can you afford to miss out?

Day 2: Supervision: Overcoming the Games Played in Supervision (7 CE Hours, Includes 2 Hours Ethics)

It is the task of the supervisor to ensure that supervision is designed to foster a supportive and nurturing supervisor and supervisee relationship. This relationship is the context for facilitating a supervisee to acquire knowledge-based competencies and healthy professional attitudes and values. Best practices in social work clinical supervision underscore that a strong supervisory alliance is essential to foster supervisee growth. However, there can be many relational challenges in supervision evident in the variety of games that can be played by either the supervisor or the supervisee.  This workshop will overview these games, highlight the power imbalance that exists in the supervisory relationship and identify strategies that can be used to best respond to games in supervision.

Learning objectives for course participants include:

•  Identifying common games and relationship challenges that may occur in clinical supervision;
• Distinguishing supervisor games from supervisee games and describing complementary transactions;
• Identifying strategies that supervisors can use to effectively confront games and enhance the supervisory process; and
• Providing opportunity for self-reflection and increased awareness of personal game playing.

Attendees who attend both days will earn 14.0 Category I Contact Hours, including 9.0 Category I Contact Hours of Ethics.

PLEASE NOTE:
Login time is 8:25 am; Seminar is 8:30 am-5:00 pm ET both days.
This is a live virtual training. Login information and pdfs of the manuals will be sent to registrants by 1:00pm the day before the training.
                                            

Presenter:
Sheena Lyle, LCSW, CCTP is a social work leader with 14 plus years combined in executive leadership and middle management. Her 25 years of clinical social work experience spans across multiple sectors including child welfare, juvenile justices/corrections, community-based mental health, residential treatment, private practice, and healthcare settings. Sheena is certified as a clinical trauma professional and trained in EMDR.  She has extensive experience with diverse, multigenerational staff, high stress environments, clinical supervision, conflict resolution, organizational development, and teambuilding.

Registration Fees - includes electronic manuals and CE certificate (emailed after training)

2 Day, 14-Hour Course
NASW Members    $280
Non-Members    $364


1 Day, 7-Hour Course
NASW Members $154
Non-Members $200


Registration Deadline: August 13, 2025


LOCATION:
This will be a live virtual training. Registrants will be sent pdfs of the manuals and the link to join the training session online by 1:00pm the day prior to the event.
Please plan to login by 8:25 am ET. The training begins at 8:30 am and ends at 5:00 pm ET each day.


PAYMENT & REFUND POLICY:
If you choose the "Bill Me" option during checkout, please mail payment within 7 days of registering in order to hold your seat. You will receive a confirmation email with your purchase information following checkout; this will serve as your invoice, no other invoices will be provided.

Checks should be made out to NASW Virginia and mailed to:
NASWVA
4860 Cox Road, Suite 200
Glen Allen, VA 23060


If a registrant cancels more than 10 days before the event, a refund will be issued by check or credit back to your credit card, minus a 10% administrative fee. If cancelation occurs less than 10 days prior to the event, no refund will be issued but you may request a credit towards a future training to be used within 1 year of the cancelation date. Call the Chapter Office (804-204-1339) to cancel within 10 days of the training. A request for credit may be granted at the discretion of the Executive Director in case of a documented emergency.


DISABILITY ASSISTANCE/SPECIAL NEEDS
Individuals who require assistance under the ADA for participation in this training should contact NASW-VA at least 30 days prior to the start of the training.  Please call the Chapter office at 804.204.1339 to discuss your needs or any concerns with a member of the staff.  

Children under the age of 18 are not permitted into any NASWVA sponsored trainings or events, without prior written consent by the chapter. For special situations and/or circumstances, please call or email the chapter office.    

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