Supervision and Mentoring Tools

Many therapists will be required to supervise an assistant, student, or staff member at some point in their career, yet this is often not an extensive part of their degree training. Without learning successful mentoring strategies, clinicians may fall into traps such as micromanaging, not clarifying expectations or a variety of other mistakes that lead to decreased efficiency of the staff member or intern. With a few proactive plans in place, mentoring can be very rewarding and thepersons being supervised can be most successful in their work. This course will set up the supervisor for success with the resources to achieve a win/win for both the mentor and the mentee. Discussion will include examples and tips for all supervisors, ranging from the first-time supervisor of a student intern to a higher-level organization leader.

Highlights

• Effective mentoring strategies to prevent ethical dilemmas and pitfalls for improved success of the mentee, resulting in improved competence and clinical outcomes
• Integrate communication strategies to increase skills and performance of students, assistants and other staff being supervised
• Ranges of client diagnosis, prognosis, and level of function and accompanying supervision process

Target Audience: Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Speech-Language Pathologists