The Fourth International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision

Thursday, June 12 - Saturday, June 14, 2008
University at Buffalo

The International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision is devoted to clinical supervision theory, practice, and research and focuses on core issues in clinical supervision that cut across professional disciplines. The conference provides an opportunity for psychologists (school, counseling, clinical), social workers, nurses, marriage and family therapists, psychiatrists, substance abuse counselors, counselor educators, speech therapists, and other mental health professionals and educators to meet and to learn from each other about current issues, practice, and research findings related to clinical supervision of students and practitioners. It is supported by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (National Institutes of Health) and is co-sponsored by the UB Schools of Social Work, Education, Nursing, and Public Health and Health Professions; UB Counseling Services; the UB Department of Counseling, School and Educational Psychology; the UB Research Institute on Addictions; and the UB Department of Family Medicine.

After a third highly successful conference in 2007 the fourth annual conference is going to be held starting on Thursday, June 12 (pre-conference workshops and evening opening plenary), 2008 and ending at noon on Saturday, June 14. The conference continues to be supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (National Institutes of Health).

The conference will be held at the Marriott Hotel in Amherst. The hotel has a limited number of conference rooms available at $109 per night.

• We will be creating three streams in the program that will identify sessions with a practice, research or graduate student focus. The PhD student stream will include networking opportunities and a session devoted to students who are interested in clinical supervision research. Senior researchers from different profession will be in attendance to facilitate and point students in fruitful directions. This session will again be led by Janine Bernard and Melissa Luke.

• The Thursday, June 12 pre-conference day will include:
• A repeat of the well-received morning presentation by UB researcher Tom Nochajski on: How to Apply for NIH Funding (free to conference registrants).
• A repeat of the highly successful afternoon session led by DiAnne Borders for experienced supervision researchers to network and to present their Challenges and Successes (free to conference registrants).
• A morning workshop on The Dynamics and Skills of Effective Clinical Supervision and an afternoon workshop on Group Supervision of Clinical Practice, both co-led by Lawrence Shulman and Alex Gitterman. (Participants will be able to register separately for each session or register for a reduced fee for the total day.) Both workshop leaders have national reputations both in the area of supervision and group leadership.

• A 6:00 PM Thursday evening conference opening plenary by Hilary Weaver on Diversity Issues in the Context of Supervision.
• The plenary session will be followed by our outstanding reception (you can skip dinner again).
• Friday morning’s plenary will be presented by Cal Stoltenberg on Applying Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Principles to the Process of Clinical Supervision.
• Saturday morning’s closing plenary speaker will be Tom Durham, Executive Director of the Danya Institute and will be titled: Clinical Supervision Competencies for Addiction Treatment: Raising the Bar in a Rapidly Changing Field.
• A repeat and expansion of the highly popular Hot Topics in Clinical Supervision roundtable discussions organized again by Michael Ellis. We will expand the time to two hours to allow participants to join in more than one roundtable discussion.

We believe the 2008 conference will be even more successful than those in the previous three years. (Make your Marriott reservations early to obtain the conference rate). This 2008 conference will provide special recognition to our international participants who “come from afar” and those of you who will be attending your fourth conference. Help us to continue to build this conference by sharing this announcement with your friends and colleagues.

Continuing education credits have been approved for the conference by the National Association of Social Work, the National Board of Certified Counselors, Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselors, Credentialed Prevention Professional, and Credentialed Prevention Specialist, the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT) and the American Psychological Association(APA). The Clinical Supervision Conference is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education credits for psychologists. The Clinical Supervision Conference maintains the responsiblity for the program and its content.

We all look forward to seeing you in June.

Lawrence Shulman and Andrew Safyer, Conference Co-chairs.

This Web site accepts abstracts and online registrations. Paper registrations will be accepted; however, abstracts must be submitted online.