SSW Professional Education Update, February 2025
After much consideration we have paused our live professional education programming during 2025 so we can take time to rebuild a sustainable, robust program that better serves your needs.
Many of our longstanding professional education offerings were thoughtfully designed for an in-person world. At the start of the pandemic we quickly shifted these in-person offerings to virtual offerings to allow us to continue our robust suite of educational programming while the world was fully remote.
As the world returned to in-person activities, we shifted our model again and began offering a mix of in-person and virtual courses. Our data shows us that, even post-pandemic, our most popular offerings continue to be those we offer virtually.
With this in mind we want to pause and reassess the program we have built and redesign it to better serve a remote audience. This pause will allow us to rethink efficiencies, identify better ways to offer virtual programming, reassess our certificate programs for the busy world we live in and launch a stronger, more vibrant professional education program in early 2026.
While our live programming is paused you will still be able to take our recorded webinars, we will finish out the Advanced Clinical Supervision Certificate and Palliative and End-of-Life Care Certificates that began last year, and we will also still hold our annual Deepening Clinical Practice Conference on August 1. We hope you will join us!
We look forward to celebrating the re-launch of our Professional Education programs with you in early 2026.
The Foundations of Clinical Supervision Certificate is designed for new supervisors or individuals who are considering becoming a supervisor. This program offers an introduction to a conceptual framework for supervision, along with careful application of these ideas to real world situations and concrete tools for supervisory practice. The course draws on concepts from multiple theoretical perspectives: psychodynamic, attachment, trauma and adult learning theories, always synthesizing perspectives on cultural awareness and the impact of oppression.
Attendees will learn from a diverse team of advanced practitioners. The program meets every week and provides 25 hours of instruction. Each 2.5 hour live, interactive webinar will include a didactic presentation and large group discussion, as well as work in small groups to build a repertoire of supervisory skills and interventions. In addition, the course will provide beginning supervisors with a continuous learning community for consultation, collaboration and collegial support.
The Foundations of Clinical Supervision Certificate is designed to help clinicians:
- Apply central concepts from psychodynamic, attachment, and learning theory as these influence the supervisory relationship
- Recognize the value of the perspective of cultural humility in supervision
- Identify some effective tools to support the supervisee’s learning and development
- Consider the importance of ethical and organizational dimensions of supervision
Fall 2024 Program Dates:
The program meets utilizing the Zoom platform every week on Tuesdays from 1-3:45 p.m. ET.
October 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19, and December 3, 10, 17. Make up class date December 20.
Application Deadline: Applications open June 1, 2024 and close on September 1, 2024.
December Courses
December 3: Fundamentals of Ethical Clinical Practice
December 10: Supervision and the Organizational Context
December 17: Problems and Possibilities
Spring 2025 Program Dates
The program meets utilizing the Zoom platform every week on Thursdays from 1-3:45 p.m. ET.
March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17, 24, May 1, 8, and 15. Make up class May 22.
March Courses
March 13: Conceptualizing the Supervisory Relationship & the Work of Supervision
March 20: Foundations of the Supervisory Frame
March 27: Introduction to Dynamics of Supervision
April Courses
April 3: Core Concepts in Psychodynamic Supervision
April 10: Intersectionality & Culture Teaching & Learning in Social Work I
April 17: Organizational Context & Supervision
April 24: Fundamentals of Ethical Supervision
May 1: Teaching and Learning in Supervision
May 8: Tools for Teaching in Supervision
May 15: Problems & Possibilities
May 22: Emergency Make-up