Florida Association for Infant Mental Health

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Critical Self-Reflection: Finding Your Way to a More Inclusive Form of Reflective Supervision

Description: 

This 3-hour training, developed for reflective supervisors, explores a multiple lenses approach to reflective supervision. This approach allows reflective supervisors to approach supervisees and their cases from an inclusive perspective for understanding and working within the complexity of early childhood intervention work at the clinical and systems level. This approach is centered in the use and development of critical self-reflection, which the RSC considers the central goal of reflective supervision. 

After this workshop participants will be able to:                   

• Describe why and how a growth-promoting supervisory alliance supports the effectiveness of infant and early childhood services.
• Describe the Multiple Lenses Framework of Reflective Supervision, how the lenses intertwine, and to apply it to RS.
• Identify, articulate, and acknowledge the impact of intersectional identities, social location, and unconscious processes on the supervisor-supervisee relationship.
• Define Critical Self-Reflection and name two ways supervisors may use it to support themselves and supervisees in the workplace. 

Designed to meet the 3-hour training in Reflective Supervision/Consultation requirement for Endorsed Reflective Supervisors when renewing their Endorsement®.

Trainers:

Sherryl Scott Heller, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist, has worked in the area of infant and early childhood mental health and development for over 25 years.  She has been a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health at Tulane University for most of her career. In her time there she has worked with the Infant Team, directed by Charley Zeanah and Julie Larrieu, where she led a team focused on supporting foster families caring for infants and young children. In 2009 she co-edited a book on reflective supervision with Linda Gilkerson that came out of the consultation work she provide through the Zero to Three Pathways program to Early Head Start programs in Louisiana. Sherry has been a member of the leadership team for Tulane’s TIKES program since 2005. This program provides mental health consultation to childcare programs statewide; Sherry provides reflective supervision to many of the TIKES consultants and leads their research and evaluation efforts. She spent several years directing the Tulane Building Early Relationships and Supports home visiting program, where she became and remains a member of the Fussy Baby Network at Erikson and a FAN trainer. During her 2012 Zero to Three Fellowship Sherry focused on developing the Provider Reflective Process Assessment Scales (PRPAS), a measure that assesses reflective capacity in early childhood providers. 

Sherry is a Zero to Three Graduate Fellow, a founding member of the RAINE group, serves as the Training Director of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative (RSC), is an expert faculty member for the SAMSHA funded Center of Excellence on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation at Georgetown University and a faculty member at the Institute for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane University.

Salam Soliman, Psy.D., IMH-E® is the Director of the Center of    Prevention and Early Trauma Treatment at the National Service office for Nurse Family Partnership and Child First.  In that role, she oversees a Category II National Child Traumatic Stress Network Center which include replication of the Child First model, providing evidence-based trainings and consultation services in communities across the US and helping create systems that work to support families and young children.  Prior to that, she had been the Connecticut State Clinical Director and National Clinical Advisor for Child First, Inc. She came to this position after having trained and worked internationally in hospitals, courthouses, public schools, universities, and outpatient clinics. Her work has primarily focused on children, with a particular interest in disrupted attachments and the long-term effects of trauma on children. Dr. Soliman is a licensed clinical psychologist and is also endorsed as an infant mental health mentor. Salam served as an Adjunct Clinical Professor at Pace University and later as the Director for Counseling Services for New York University in Abu Dhabi.

When: Wednesday September 21, 2022

1:00-4:00pm Eastern/ 12-3pm CT/ 11am-2pm MT/ 10am-1pm PT

Who: Endorsed Reflective Supervisors, Infant Mental Health Specialists (Category 3) or Infant Mental Health Mentors (Category 4) who have experience with Reflective Supervision/Consultation and would like to further their training in Reflective Supervision/Consultation.

Endorsement:

Designed to meet the 3-hour training in Reflective Supervision/Consultation requirement for Endorsed Reflective Supervisors when renewing their Endorsement®.

Registration