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It is great to announce that the Reflecting on your first job session that I organise and present for the Victorian branch of the AASW will be happening again in September. The session is aimed at 2012 social work graduates and other newer workers. We discuss some of the issues that can arise in adapting to working full time as a social work professional (successful inventions and learning, as well as managing stress, avoiding burnout, clearly establishing work/home boundaries and developing …
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I am pleased to announce that I have now joined the Australian Counselling Association (ACA) - as a registered supervisor through the ACA’s College of Supervision and also as a Level 4 counsellor. I have provided individual and group supervision to a whole range of professionals for over ten years now – social workers, counsellors, welfare workers, youth workers, needle syringe program workers and allied health staff to name a few. This new registration means that I can also provide …
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I’ve just booked into the National Rural and Remote Social Work conference which is being held at Inverloch in July. Having enjoyed the last one in 2011, I am really looking forward to this one. There are a few presentations on my own area – supervision, which I am very keen to attend. Two areas I have an interest in – the provision of supervision to allied health and non-clinical staff and the provision of clinical supervision via Skype or telephone, feature in a number of the concurrent …
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I am really pleased to be announcing that the AASW Victorian branch’s annual session for new social work graduates Finding your first job and thriving in it is available online for new graduates who can’t come to our live session in the Melbourne CBD.
It is available through the AASW website http://www.aasw.asn.au/whoweare/victorian/new-graduates
Rural and remote access to training is an on-going struggle. I regularly receive queries from people who can’t make it to the new …
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Clinical supervision, staff support and solid self-care routines are integral for all staff who work in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) service sector. This is true both for therapeutic staff and those in related frontline roles, such as needle syringe program (NSP) workers, allied health staff and receptionists.
Helping people can be stressful and leave workers feeling anxious or exhausted. In the AOD service sector, at any one time, a number of the clients will be in crisis, stressed, …
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I have been providing group and individual clinical supervision for over ten years. It is quite common for people to ask me about the benefits of engaging in supervision themselves or of arranging it for their staff. Often, supervision is seen as a bit of an indulgence or something that you only need when something is wrong, rather than an integral part of our practice in any client-centred role. While counsellors and case managers commonly receive supervision, I have found that other workers …
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) sessions (one-off or short term counselling to workers within their organisation) appear to be much more effective where there is already a solid, trusting relationship between the staff member and the EAP counsellor. An essential component of any counselling is a positive relationship between the client and the counsellor. Openness and honesty about often painful or distressing issues, requires first of all, that the client feels safe and respected and trusts …
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What is clinical supervision? Basically, it is about well-being – the well-being of the worker receiving supervision and the well-being of their clients. The other essential element for effective clinical supervision is the development of a strong, trusting and honest relationship, between supervisor and supervisee. Building and maintaining this relationship can still be possible when supervisors are geographically distant through thoughtful use of technology.
At times telephone contact …
Lisa Derham
BA, BSW, AMHSW, Graduate Diploma in Family Therapy, MACA Level 4
