Clinical Supervision for Mental Health Professionals: Foundations, Models, Ethics, Culture, and Practice (6 CEs)

This 6-hour continuing education course will offer mental health professionals an in-depth introduction to clinical supervision as a defined area of practice. Participants will learn the essential foundations of supervision, including the core responsibilities and roles of the supervisor. The curriculum covers key concepts, major evidence-based supervision models—such as competency-based, treatment-based, developmental, and integrative approaches—and the application of these models in diverse clinical settings.

Instructor:

Diana Concannon, PsyD, PCI, CTM, is a forensic psychologist and former director of the California Psychology Internship Consortium (CPIC), an APA-accredited internship consortium that grew to accept an average of 45 interns during her tenure.

In addition to her leadership of CPIC, Diana has more than two decades experience conducting threat assessment and management consultations, violence risk assessments, fitness for duty evaluations, and crisis interventions in myriad contexts.  She works with government agencies, corporations, and educational institutions to establish threat assessment teams and workplace violence prevention programs.  Diana is chair emeritus of the Extremism and Political Instability Community of ASIS International, and past president of the National Council of Schools of Professional Psychology. She has authored books related to kidnapping investigations and neurocriminology, articles related to threat assessment, extremism, moral injury, among other topics, and has been interviewed by more than 200 media concerns, including NPR and Forbes.