Course Description
Advance your clinical supervision skills and fulfill California’s 15-hour Clinical Supervision training requirement with this comprehensive, practical, and fully online course designed for both new and experienced supervisors, this training helps LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPS and other behavioral health professionals strengthen their supervision competencies while reducing legal, ethical, and documentation risks.
This case-based Clinical Supervision Training provides practical guidance you can immediately apply in real-world supervision settings. Learn how to implement gold-standard supervision models, support supervisee development across developmental levels, manage difficult supervisory situations, strengthen documentation practices, and navigate complex law and ethics issues in clinical supervision.
The course covers all required California BBS supervision topics, including:
- Supervisor roles and core competencies
- Law and ethics in clinical supervision
- The supervisor-supervisee relationship
- Goal setting, feedback, and evaluation
- Documentation and recordkeeping requirements
- Cultural and contextual variables in supervision
- Telehealth and technology in supervision
- Risk management and liability reduction
- Competency assessment and remediation planning
- Developmental models of supervision and supervisory interventions
Participants also receive extensive downloadable clinical supervision handouts, templates, and practical tools designed to save time and strengthen supervision practice, including:
✔ Clinical supervision contract guidelines
✔ Tele-conference supervision agreement templates
✔ Supervision session note template
✔ Competency-based supervisee evaluation form
✔ Remediation plan template
✔ Risk management models
✔ Practical supervision interventions and strategies
✔ Case examples and supervision frameworks
Walk away with ready-to-use supervision documents, stronger clinical supervision skills, increased confidence in handling ethical and legal challenges, and practical systems you can immediately implement with supervisees and within agency or private practice settings.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course 15 hour clinical supervision course, participants will be able to:
- Describe the Integrated Developmental Model (IDM) of clinical supervision and identify characteristics and needs of supervisees at developmental Levels 1, 2, 3, and 3i.
- Assess supervisee performance across eight clinical domains, including theoretical orientation, ethics, assessment techniques, and attention to individual differences integrating the Competency Based Clinical Supervision Model.
- Implement appropriate supervisory interventions (facilitative, confrontive, catalytic, conceptual, and prescriptive) based on supervisee developmental level and clinical need.
- Apply reflective practice techniques (e.g., Driscoll's model) to improve supervisee insight, professional growth, and case conceptualization.
- Describe key ethical standards including competence, confidentiality, and dual relationships, for clinical supervision outlined in professional codes of ethics.
- Apply ethical decision-making models such to analyze complex ethical dilemmas that arise in clinical supervision.
- Differentiate between direct and vicarious liability in clinical supervision and apply methods to reduce legal and ethical risk.
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Design and implement a supervision contract that includes evaluation methods, feedback protocols, informed consent, and confidentiality expectations.
Meet Your Instructor
Sharon Greene, LCSW is a nationally recognized expert in clinical supervision, law and ethics, and continuing education for mental health professionals, with over 20 years of experience.
- Training Director, Providence Saint John’s Child & Family Development Center (Los Angeles)
- Adjunct Faculty: UCLA, USC, CSUN (Graduate Schools of Social Work)
- CE Trainer for PESI, Therapist Development Center, Professional Psych Seminars, LA County Office of Education and other organizations
- National trainer in competency-based clinical supervision
Her courses are known for being practical, engaging, and immediately applicable to real-world supervision.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE:
This course is perfect for new to advanced clinical supervisors, this training provides practical tools to strengthen your supervisory practice so you can supervise with confidence and reduce liability.
C.E. CREDIT:
15 total Continuing Education Credits (8 Ethics Continuing Education Credits and 7 Clinical Continuing Education Credit)
COURSE DELIVERY:
RECORDED ASYNCHRONOUS DISTANCE
This distance learning asynchronous course, written by licensed clinical social worker Sharon Greene, LCSW, combines expert knowledge with cutting-edge AI technology.
COURSE CREATED: 4/1/2026
Course Curriculum
CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION:
Participants will receive a Certificate of Completion after finishing the course and passing the posttest with a score of 80% or higher (up to three attempts allowed). Once the posttest and course evaluation—located in the final sections—are completed, the certificate is issued immediately and will appear on screen. Please download or print a copy for your records.
CANCELLATION POLICY:
If you contact us at mentalhealthcehub@gmaiil.com prior to utilizing your course, you may receive a tuition refund less a $10 cancellation fee.
GRIEVANCE POLICY:
Your satisfaction is our goal. If you have any grievances, please email: mentalhealthcehub@gmaiil.com
ADA NEEDS:
We are happy to accommodate your ADA needs, please email: mentalhealthcehub@gmaiil.com
CONTACT INFORMATION: email: mentalhealthcehub@gmaiil.com
Phone number: 424-234-3691
Use our CE Lookup Tool (click button below) to review acceptance, and confirm requirements with your local licensing board.
Sharon Greene, LCSW & Associates provider #295, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/4/2025-9/4/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 15 continuing education credits (8 Ethics continuing education credits and 7 clinical continuing education credit).
