Completion of the 6-hour Refresher Course:
1. Hybrid: Consists of 3 hours didactic and 3 hours interactive (didactic questions MUST be answered)
2. Virtual: Consists of 6 straight hours of interactive over Zoom
If an Approved Supervisor has allowed his or her designation to lapse and wants to be reinstated, he or she must take an AAMFT offered or pre-approved supervision refresher course within two years of applying to reinstate the designation.
The aim of the AAMFT offered or pre-approved refresher course is several-fold:
• To provide continuing education to supervisors relative to recent developments and ideas in couple and family therapy supervision and supervision standards,
• To provide an opportunity for supervisors to interact with each other around various supervisory issues and common concerns, and
• To assist Approved Supervisor mentors in their responsibilities to supervisor candidates, their trainees and clients, and the profession.
The course is not intended to be a “mini” fundamentals course.
Content
The content covered in all 6-hour refresher courses and incorporated into future proposals for courses provided by AAMFT must include current topics and literature on:
• AAMFT membership and Approved Supervisor designation standards, supervision process, and training requirements for Approved Supervisors;
• Approaches to supervision, including roles, goals, relationships, resolving difficulties, and using technology in therapy and supervision;
• Screening, assessing, and evaluating trainees;
• Supervising in a variety of contexts including graduate and post-graduate student settings, public and private agencies;
• Cultural factors including competency, gender, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, economics, power and privilege, and so forth, including managing differences between clients and therapists, and therapists and supervisors;
• Ethical and legal considerations particularly unique to participants’ jurisdictions;
• Supervising challenging situations;
• Research on the outcome and process of supervision, and
• Mentoring processes and troubleshooting.
Option for completion of the 6-hour refresher course
The AAMFT offered or pre-approved refresher course should focus largely on interactive processes among course participants around the topics described above, and concerns and experiences brought by the participants. Up to three hours of the course may be primarily didactic through pre-assigned readings or other technology-assisted means. Although at least three hours of face-to-face, physically present interaction is preferred in order to encourage personal exchanges, the course may be offered through technologically assisted means that must include real-time visual and/or audio interaction.
Time Limit
It is expected that the supervision refresher course; both the interactive and didactic component be completed within a 6 months’ period from registration for the course.