“Being an Approved Supervisor”
As of January 1, 2007, all supervisors who wish to become an Approved
Supervisor
for LICSW and LASW licensure candidates
will be required to have 15 hours of coursework in supervision. Everything You Want to Know, co-sponsored
by WSSCSW and NASW, Washington Chapter, and will meet this requirement.
Being an approved supervisor starts with your own supervision experiences and dilemmas.
Upon registration, you will receive a survey that will ask for detailed
information on the kinds of supervision you have done, where you supervise,
what works for you, and what doesn’t work.
Your faculty for this course
include: Bonnie Bhatti, Ph.D., LICSW; Bill Etnyre, Ph.D.,
LICSW; Laura Groshong, LICSW; Karen Hansen, LICSW; Kevin Host, LICSW; and Jan
Sauer, LICSW. All faculty members have extensive experience as clinicians
and/or supervisors.
This course will be held June
2-4, 2006, at Embassy Suites in
Get the answers to your Approved
Supervision questions:
• What is the new Approved
Supervisor Rule?
• What are commonalities and
differences between Approved Supervision in agencies and in private practice?
• How does the Approved
Supervisor in private practice understand the supervisee’s agency experience?
• What are the legal and ethical
responsibilities of an Approved Supervisor?
• How can an approved agency
supervisor and approved private practice supervisor help the same supervisee?
• What needs of the new
professional does the Approved Supervisor need to understand?
• How can the Approved
Supervisor help Supervisees with issues of diversity?
• How can the Approved
Supervisor engage in and promote self-care?
The registration fee is before
May 1, 2006, for NASW and WSSCSW members is $290, non members pay $365. The registration fee after May 1, 2006, and
until June 1, 2006, is $340 for NASW and WSSCSW members and $390 for
non-members. Anyone registering on June
2 at the workshop the fee is $415.
To register on line, you can go
to the workshops section on the NASW Washington State Chapter homepage