Creating Supervision Possibilities Beyond Case Management
Creating Supervision Possibilities Beyond Case Management
Dr. Barbara McKay (BA (Hons), MSc, CQSW, MSc, MA, D. Psych) is a social worker, systemic psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer who has worked in adult mental health services, children and families’ teams, fostering, adoption, and children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
She was the former Director of the Institute of Family Therapy and currently serves as the Director of McKay Systemic Consultancy Services conducting therapy, supervision, consultation, coaching, and training for Heads of Services, Team Managers and leaders across the UK.
DATES:
22 & 23 May 2023; Monday & Tuesday
TIME:
SGT 9:00 AM – 5.00 PM
VENUE:
This workshop will be conducted face-to-face. Confirmed participants will be receiving the venue details in due course. Please note that the mode of the workshop is subject to the prevailing COVID-19 precautionary measures in place.
SYNOPSIS
The workshop will explore a range of supervisory practices with the purpose of enhancing the supervisory experience and influencing better out comes for practice. Participants will explore various supervisory methods including video (retrospective), live supervision and reported supervision.
WHO IS IT FOR?
This workshop will support the development of supervisory identity and practice for anyone moving into supervisory positions. It could also be useful for practitioners who anticipate a move into supervision during their professional careers.
OBJECTIVES:
- Develop responsive supervision that attends to the needs of different Supervisees;
- Explore different methods of supervision that offer ideas beyond case management;
- Understand the influence Supervisors bring to direct practice through supervision;
- Enable Supervisees and Supervisors to take into consideration the weaving together of personal and professional stories that impact their work;
- Assist Supervisors in bringing creative ideas into their practice to enhance the experience of supervision and thus improve practice outcomes;
- Encourage Supervisors to take account of experience and learning styles as they develop their supervisory relationships;
- Understand the affordances and constraints of case management;
- Demonstrate a robust understanding of the complexity of supervision.
TEACHING STRATEGIES
- Didactic presentation;
- Videotape examples;
- Skill-building exercises;
- Live case consultation demonstrating theory;
- Q&A.
ABOUT THE TRAINER
Dr. Barbara McKay (BA (Hons), MSc, CQSW, MSc, MA, D. Psych) is a social worker, systemic psychotherapist, supervisor, and trainer who has worked in adult mental health services, children and families’ teams, fostering, adoption, and children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
Dr. Barbara was the former Director of the Institute of Family Therapy for 13 years. In 2019, she moved into private practice offering systemic therapy, supervision, teaching and consultancy. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice U.K., and the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution.
Currently, as the Director of McKay Systemic Consultancy Services, Dr. Barbara is working with an adult social care department as part of their cultural change programme, and a number of children’s services both as tutor on teaching courses and group facilitator for Heads of Services and Team Managers and coach for leaders. She works with a management team across a number of children’s homes and has recently become involved in a creative project that serves women who have had children removed into care.
She has published a number of articles straddling a range of topics from leadership and change in children’s social care and compassionate leadership, practice chapters on working therapeutically with couples, systemic supervision, and another on the integration and influence of personal and professional selves in shaping approaches to work, and on supervision. She has written on systemic practice, supervision, leadership and management courses and delivered these insights in over 20 Local Authority Children’s Services in England.