Clinical Supervision:
Based on Solution Based
Casework
Supervisor’s Academy
Welcome and Ice Breaker
 Pair
up in groups of two
 Interview partner and discover what
is their vision for their unit; and
explore the strengths, resources and
talents they bring to their team.
 Introduce partner and share what
you discovered about them….
Clinical Supervision
What is Clinical
Supervision?
Clinical Supervision
The Supervisor’s Role in Case
Management
“As the supervision goes, so goes the casework”
Developing partnerships
 Focusing on everyday life events
 Promoting skills
 Asking questions
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SAFETY IS ALWAYS OUR FIRST PRIORITY
Clinical Supervision
What isn’t Clinical
Supervision?
Clinical Supervision
What it is not
 “Hallway”
supervision
 Telling the worker what to do
 Timelines only
 Performance measures only
It’s about Time….
How will we find the time
to guide our workers into
using best practice?
It’s About Time….
Some of our Challenges
 Quick
decisions often lead to poor
outcomes… “slowing down to speed
up”.
 Clinical Supervision means less crisis
management.
 What is good for families is good for
workers.
Solution Based Casework:
What is it and how does it
fit in?
SBC is the common conceptual
map between supervisor and
caseworker
How do we help our workers focus
on best practice?
Case Consultation Process
Our goal is to work in partnership
with people to help identify their
strengths, focus on everyday life
events, and help them build the skills
necessary to manage situations that
are difficult for them.
Case Consultation Process
1. Help the workers get to know the
family by introducing the
family’s members with a
genogram.
Remind the team of the
development challenges family’s
like theirs face.
Case Presentation Guide
2. List and discuss the family’s
strengths and skills.
What does the family do well? What
are they proud of? What gives them
a sense of self worth and
satisfaction?
Case Presentation Guide
3. Discuss what is difficult for the
family.
What situations in everyday life are
high risk for difficulty for them?
What is their current pattern for
trying to accomplish these tasks?
Case Presentation Guide
4.
Discuss what individual
problems family members
might have that serve as barriers
to resolving the problems in the
family.
What do you know about those
individual patterns of behavior?
Case Presentation Guide
5.
If you have co-developed plans
with the family (or individual family
members), what are they? (Please
bring enough copies for the team).
How are the plans going so far? Is the
family keeping track of their
successes? If so, bring some copies
of their accomplishments
Solution Based Casework:
Partnership
The optimal supervisory
relationship is one in which
both the supervisor and
worker are transformed by
the interaction.
Supervision with Individual
Workers
What will work for you
and your team?
The Building
Blocks of Clinical Supervision
Maintaining a Partnership
Ask about specific situations
 Notice competency
 Ask about problem exceptions
 Elicit potential solution strategies
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The Building
Blocks of Clinical Supervision
Tracking Problem Patterns
 Individual
 Family
The Building
Blocks of Clinical Supervision
Keeping tasks concrete,
specific
and documented
The worker must get out the plan
every time the case is discussed
with the supervisor .
Small Group Discussion
 Break
up into groups of four.
 Think
about a recent supervision
interaction. Given what we have
discussed, how might you do things
differently.

Report back to the large group
You Are The Experts
What would Clinical Supervision look
like in your discipline using the
concepts and skills We have been
discussing?
You are the Experts
What should a case transfer look like
using the Clinical Supervision
concepts we have been talking
about?
Practice
Case Consultation
Tips for Quality Clinical
Supervision
Keep your social worker thinking
developmentally…What are the
developmental stages of the family?
 Focus on everyday life tasks...what
specific tasks are they struggling with?
 Tracking the problem.
 Helping social worker remain solution
based.
 “Teaching rather than telling”
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More Tips for Quality
Supervision
 Where
is the family doing well?
 What do they need to do to move
the case forward?
 What family tasks do they need to
work on?
 What individual skills do they need to
develop?
What is your Plan?
 Break
up into groups of two and
develop a written outline of how you
will take what we have discussed to
day and implement it into your unit.
 Remember
plan!
 Report
to be SMARRT about your
back to the large group
Clinical Supervision
The supervisory relationship is our
greatest training and practice
tool.
Let’s use it to mentor social
workers and develop great
practice.