Supervision Institute

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Mission Statement

The mission of the Supervision Institute, established in 1993, is to promote greater knowledge of the skills, theory, approaches and issues involved in clinical supervision. The philosophy of the Institute is that the development of competent practitioners depends on competent supervision. To fulfill its mission, the Institute is engaged in research, publications, workshops and presentations on supervision. The Institute Faculty offers post-masters level training for current supervisors or potential supervisors of practicing clinicians. In addition, faculty associated with the Institute offer non-agency-based consultation and supervision for licensure.

 

TEACHING FACULTY

Tamara L. Kaiser, Ph.D., LICSW, LMFT received her MSW at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. She has 35 years of experience as a clinical social worker and 25 years of experience as a supervisor of graduate students and as a consultant for social workers, psychologists and marriage and family therapists. She has taught supervision at the graduate level, conducted training for supervisors and has led workshops on the topic of supervision. She is the author of Supervisory Relationships: Exploring the Human Element. Co-Director:  Supervision Institute.

Carol F. Kuechler, Ph.D., LISW has 35 years experience as a social worker.She has practiced as a social worker, supervisor and researcher in public social social service and non profit agencies. As an educator for the past15 years, she has taught classes in supervision, consulted with agency practitioners and managers, and provided supervision for licensure. She developed the consultation circle, a model for peer consultation, which has been the topic of publications, professional presentations and workshops locally, nationally and internationally. Her sabbatical research on group supervision has contributed to our understanding of this practice from the perspective of supervisors. As co-director of the institute she is working with colleagues who are interested in providing similar training for practitioners in Ireland as well as participating in the ongoing offerings of the institute for Minnesota practitioners. Co-Director:  Supervision Institute.

Sarah Ferguson, Ph.D., LISW received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota where she completed research on supervision in the context of public child welfare, looking at the role conflict for supervisors between clinical supervision and administrative supervision. She holds a MSW from the University of Minnesota, with a concentration on human service management, as well as a MA in public policy from the Humphrey Institute. Dr. Ferguson is new to the Supervision Institute; bringing 17 years of experience in the field as well as three years of teaching and training on agency-based supervision. Most recently, she authored a chapter on clinical supervision for an upcoming book on child welfare supervision.

Jane F Hurley Johncox, MSW, LICSW has 20 years experience as a social worker. She became full-time faculty at the College of St. Catherine and University of St. Thomas School of Social in fall 2006. In her prior role, she has done extensive work in the area of evidence-based practices. She was responsible for the development and implementation of effective correctional practices that were supported by research and evidence based practices. She conducted research of cognitive behavioral interventions with high-risk offenders, on effective case management techniques for professional staff who supervised medium to high-risk clients, and oversaw the implementation of multi-systemic therapy. Jane provided clinical supervision for 10 years with therapists using Multi-systemic Therapy, a blueprint program with National Institute for Mental Health. From this work, she developed curriculum used by the corrections department, training manuals, and pocket guides.

Publications (former and current Supervision Institute Faculty)

Barretta-Herman, A. (1990). The effective social service staff meeting. In F.X. Sligo, Business Communication: New Zealand Perspectives. New Zealand: Software Technology, NZ Ltd. 136-146.

Barretta-Herman, A. (1993). On the development of a model of supervision for licensed social work practitioners. The Clinical Supervisor, 11(2), 55-64.

Barretta-Herman, A. (1994). Welfare state to welfare society: Restructuring New Zealand?s social services. Garland Publishing, NY.

Barretta-Herman, A., & Garrett, K. (1995). Moving from supervision to professional development. The Clinical Supervisor Journal, 13, (2), 97-110.

Barretta-Herman, A., & Shank, B. (1996). Benefits and Considerations for Initiating a Curriculum Analysis. Invited commentary in Practice Sensitive Social Work Education by Bradford Sheafor and Robert Teare, Washington, D.C: NASW 217-222.

Barretta-Herman, A. (2000a). Fulfilling the Commitment to Competent Social Work Practice Through Supervision. Keynote Address presented at the International Conference on Supervision: Supervision from rhetoric to reality. Centre for Social Work, Auckland College of Education, Auckland, New Zealand.

Barretta-Herman, A. (2000b). Supervising the experienced practitioner: A research report. Draft unpublished manuscript.

Freeman, P. (1999) The multiple roles of psychological type in maximizing the effectiveness of clinical supervision. In Proceedings: The Role of Type and Mental and Physical Health. Second Biennial Clinical Conference sponsored by The Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT), February 4-6, 1999.

Freeman, P. (1998). Using type in clinical supervision. Bulletin of Psychological Type, 21:5; Kansas City: Association for Psychological Type.

Kaiser, T. (2004).  Supervisory relationships.  Supervision as Collaboration in the Human Services:  Building a Learning Culture, M. Austin & K. Hopkins, Eds. Sage Publications:  Thousand Oaks, CA.

Kaiser, T. (1992). The supervisory relationship: An identification of the primary elements in the relationship and application of two theories of ethical relationships. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 18,(3), 283-296.

Kaiser, T. (1997). Supervisory relationships: Exploring the human element. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Kaiser, T., & Barretta-Herman, A. (1999). The Supervision Institute: A model for supervisory training, The Clinical Supervisor, 18(1), 33-46.

Kaiser, T.L., Kuechler, C.F. , & Barretta-Herman, A.(2000) Challenges in Cross Cultural Supervision, A Teaching Video and Instructor?s Manual. Created and produced through the Supervision Institute, College of St. Catherine/University of St. Thomas School of Social Work, St. Paul, MN.

Kuechler, C. F. (1998). The Consultation Circle: A model for team consultation. In A. Daly (Ed.) Workplace diversity: Issues and perspectives (pp. 253-264). Washington, D.C.: NASW Press.

Kuechler, C. F. & Barretta-Herman, A. (1998). The Consultation Circle: A technique for facilitating peer consultation, The Clinical Supervisor 17(1).

Kuechler, C. F. (2006). Practitioners’ voices: Group supervisors reflect on their practice.  The Clinical Supervisor, 25(1/2), 83-103.

Kuechler, C.F. & Schwartz, J. (In press). Group supervision: Motivation for social action?  In Creating Connections: Celebrating the Power of Groups. [A publication of juried submissions from the Twenty-Fifth International Symposium of the Association for the Advancement of Social Work with Groups] New York: The Haworth Press, Inc.

Kuechler, C. F. (1998). The Consultation Circle: A model for team consultation.  In A. Daly (Ed.) Workplace diversity: Issues and perspectives (pp. 253-264). Washington, D.C.: NASW Press.

Kuechler, C.F. & Barretta-Herman, A.  (1998). The consultation circle: A technique for facilitating peer consultation.  The Clinical Supervisor, 17(1), 83-93.

For next offering, contact the Tamara Kaiser at (651) 962-5807 or tlkaiser@stthomas.edu or contact Carol Kuechler at (651) 690-6719 or cfkuechler@stkate.edu