Family Partnership Model: Supervision Course

Overview

The Family Partnership Model Supervision Course prepares skilled practitioners to facilitate reflective supervision for practitioners who apply the Family Partnership Model in their work.

There are no upcoming Family Partnership Model Supervision Course sessions. To be advised when a new date is released, please contact us at [email protected]

Why choose the Family Partnership Model Supervision Course?

The Family Partnership Model emphasises the need for highly skilled professional communication and structured goal-orientated support for families.

It also assumes that a respectful partnership between the Family Partnership Model practitioner and those who support their reflective practice is a powerful restorative support, and the means by which reflective practice can be most successfully reviewed and facilitated.  

A partnership relationship provides a base for the Family Partnership Model practitioner to explore difficulties they face, to clarify these and to develop the most helpful and effective strategies. Guiding a practitioner through reflective practice is a form of supervision.

Supervision is ‘a quintessential interpersonal interaction with the general goal that one person, the supervisor, meets with another, the supervisee, in an effort to make the latter more effective in helping people’ (Hess, 1980:25).

The Family Partnership Model Supervision Course prepares you to facilitate reflective supervision for practitioners who apply the Family Partnership Model in their work.

We'll ask you to embark on a journey of change through self reflection, experiential learning and knowledge acquisition. This will enhance and develop your knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective supervision. The course is tiring and challenging, we suggest giving yourself an hour or so of quiet relaxation after each day.

  • Enhance and develop your knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective supervision.
  • Facilitate reflective supervision for practitioners who apply the Family Partnership Model in their work.
  • Support practitioners to explore difficulties they face, to clarify these and to develop the most helpful and effective strategies.

Course outcomes

This course equips participants with an understanding of the functions, processes and skills required to provide supervision (individual and groups) to practitioners in the style of the Family Partnership Model (Davis & Day, 2010; Day, Eliis & Harris, 2015).

It encourages participants to reflect on their own experiences and learn to deal effectively with new supervisory situations, and to find new ways of managing familiar challenges (White, 2002:11). 

Reflections from past participants

  • 'I'll use my new understanding and learnings to advocate for Family Partnership Model supervision integration into organisations.'
  • 'I'm more confident now in using the theoretical underpinnings of the Family Partnership Model to support supervision.'
  • 'This has been the most wonderful course and will have a profound impact on the way I practice. It is the foundation of what I will do and will make a difference to the people I work with.'
  • 'This course has strengthened my commitment and increased my knowledge and confidence in embedding the Family Partnership Model in my work life.'
  • 'A fantastic course. Highly insightful, inspiring, thorough, thought provoking and fun.'

Duration

3+ days

Date

There are no upcoming sessions. Please email [email protected] and ask to be advised when a new course date is released.

Time

NA

Delivery

  • In-person
  • This course is also available online

Venue

NA

Prerequisites

Those eligible for participation in the Family Partnership Model Supervision Course include:

  • Practitioners who have completed the Family Partnership Model Foundation Course and used the approach in clinical practice.
  • Professionals/mental health practitioners with considerable clinical knowledge and experience of working with the models and concepts contained within the Family Partnership Model; and responsible for supervising other staff, either individually or in groups, who are using the approach in their practice.

Assessment

  • The course is not assessed.
  • Certificates of completion will be issued. However, since the course is carefully constructed to build each week, successful completion is dependent upon attending all sessions.
  • Missing more than two half-days will significantly reduce the understanding and value of subsequent sessions and will constitute non-completion.

Contact

For further information, please email [email protected]