Overview

PsyBA-approved Supervisor refresher training

Master class (Part 4) has been developed for psychologists who want to maintain their status as a Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA)-approved supervisor (principal or secondary). 

Approved supervisors are eligible to enrol, and attendance to this training will meet the requirements to maintain supervisory status for a further five years. 

Psychologists who are not currently a PsyBA-approved supervisor can use this workshop for general CPD purposes but cannot use this workshop to gain supervisor approval.

Self-care in supervision practice: Developing and maintaining competence in self-care for self and others

Self-care, as the way in which we manage our mental health and overall well-being, is important in maintaining our energy and enthusiasm for the many roles of our lives. Whilst psychologists support effective self-care for clients, they are now required to show evidence of their own self-care, making explicit the ways in which their personal and professional self-care underpins safe practice. The implications of requiring evidence for the development and maintenance of the competency of self-care in educational and practice settings are wide ranging.

This masterclass will explore the nature, extent, and benefits of self-care and leisure activities, building on the self-care and leisure activities people are already doing. We will consider how to ensure that self-is care is relevant, effective, and documented appropriately from development planning through to evaluation. We will also explore the role of leisure, and how leisure activities can be leveraged to enable flourishing beyond the mandatory aspects of self-care for regulatory compliance.

The session will introduce participants to the Serious Leisure Perspective (SLP, Stebbins, 2020), to understand the benefits of sustained and serious investment in leisure. SLP captures the person’s investment of time, effort, and perseverance in their favoured activities, how skills have improved over time, the activities’ ethos, and the personal and social rewards of the activities. We will highlight our own qualitative and quantitative research showing the links between serious leisure, recovery from work, and well-being, with examples from craft-based projects (e.g., quilting) and project-based activities (e.g., competitors and officials in amateur motorsport competitions). Across many different types of serious leisure, the value of “my favourite thing” was seen in the camaraderie of like-minded enthusiasts, the benefits of deep involvement, and the enjoyment of completing something valued, challenging, and complex.

Video case presentations drawn from our own research and practice will be used to illustrate and reinforce learning by showing how supervisors and psychologists engage in self-care. This will model what competence looks and sounds like.

A selection of cases will be used, drawn from a diverse range of practice settings or can tailor the masterclass for specific areas of practice by presenting only areas of practice specific examples e.g. organisational, clinical etc.

Using structured activities, attendees will explore their own self-care and serious leisure activities, considering the recovery benefits and flow-states associated with these, thereby understanding more fully what suits them and how serious leisure complements and extends self-care capabilities.

To meet the new PsyBA competency 3: Exercises professional reflexivity, deliberate practice and self-care, the session will give each participant insights and inspiration for the ways in which they can model effective self-care in supervision as well as continue to assist supervisees to develop and maintain this important aspect of competence as a psychologist practitioner.

Learn more about the PsyBA professional competencies for psychology.

Important information

• This PsyBA-approved Master class is being delivered in an online workshop format.

• Participants must log in live at the scheduled date and time and keep their cameras on during the day. 

• The class will not be recorded.

• Participants will be able to access reading materials and assessments via their online learning dashboard prior to the live online workshop. 

Technical requirements

• Access the online events via a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. 

• Systems will require audio and video capabilities.

• It is recommended that participants test their systems using the following link prior to registering: https://zoom.us/test

CPD Frequently Asked Questions

Refer to the APS CPD Frequently Asked Questions for general information when undertaking APS Professional development activities.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the training, participants should be able to:

• demonstrate how PsyBA Competency 3 - Exercises professional reflexivity, deliberate practice and self-care, connects to the realities of practice for the delivery of psychological services across a range of practice contexts,
• recognise the role of serious leisure as an extension of self-care for both psychologists and their clients in organisational settings,
• demonstrate self-care for compliance and appreciate the benefits of self-care for flourishing as psychologist practitioner,
• recognise how leisure enhances self-care, and how individuals and the organisations they work for can benefit,
• demonstrate how to assess the relevance and effectiveness of self-care activities for personal development and within the context of regulatory requirements,
• understand the role of the supervisor in developing self-care competencies in education and practice settings, and
• evaluate, monitor, and maintain the effectiveness of self-care at all career stages and types of supervision practice.

Presenter(s)

Pauline Willis MAPS

About the presenter(s)

Pauline Willis is an organisational psychologist providing services focused on individuals, teams and organisations. In addition to her organisational consultancy services, she is a coach and confidante to leaders and executives to enable them to maintain equilibrium with self-care at the core of what many leaders currently need for continuing effectiveness. She is also a provider of peer consultation and supervision for coaches, mentors, psychologists as well as leaders of small businesses seeking to embrace their own self-care and professional development as an integrated approach.
In association with colleagues at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Pauline is currently engaged with research in the areas of coaching, self-care, well-being, at work and serious leisure. Pauline’s historical research interests have focused on core and specialist competencies and standards for the coaching and mentoring industry. Her broader professional interests include technology, one health, circular economy, sustainability, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, human factors, and psychosocial health and safety.
Pauline is an international provider of consultancy coaching and supervision services working across a range of sectors and industries. Her primary focus has been high pressure high stakes environments which have included but not limited to healthcare (human and animal), emergency services, fast moving consumer goods, banking/finance, professional sport, and Information technology. She has also lived and worked in the United Kingdom. She has held a number of key roles in the profession of psychology as well as in the coaching sector. She served as a founding board member of the European Mentoring & Coaching Council, is a past chair of the Coaching Psychology Forum and the British Psychological Society’s Special Group in Coaching Psychology (now the Division of Coaching Psychology) and is currently serving as the Western Australian State Chair of the Australian Psychological Society’s College of Organisational Psychologists.

Website/s

https://psychology.org.au/training-and-careers/education/supervisor-training-hub