Instructor | Dr. Brian Paulson, Ph.D.

Learners will describe grief as a normal response to loss and explain current models of grieving, including Worden's tasks, the dual process model, and continuing bonds.

Learners will recognize anticipatory, ambiguous, disenfranchised, secondary, and traumatic losses and respond with validation and practical support.

Learners will identify signs that grief may need clinical attention, including Prolonged Grief Disorder features and suicide risk, and route these concerns to licensed clinicians.

Screen every client for both mental health and substance use concerns

Build symptom and substance timelines for licensed clinicians

Engage ambivalent clients using stages of change and motivational skills

Distinguish screening, assessment, and diagnosis within the CMHP scope

Administer and score the PHQ-9, GAD-7, PC-PTSD-5, PCL-5, and AUDIT-C accurately

Respond immediately to positive suicide risk screens under agency protocol

Organize assessment data across biological, psychological, and social domains

Conduct structured interviews with informed consent and clear confidentiality limits

Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive questioning

Learners will distinguish visions, goals, objectives, and interventions and connect each level of a service plan to the person's own intentions.

Learners will write SMART objectives that name an observable behavior, a measurable amount, the conditions, and a target date.

Learners will track progress with simple, person-friendly measures and write progress notes that link directly to plan objectives.

Learners will trace the history of person-centered care from Rogers's core conditions to SAMHSA's working definition of recovery and the CHIME framework.

Learners will practice a structured listening cycle and recovery-oriented language that keep the person, not the diagnosis, at the center of every contact.

Learners will apply shared decision-making, cultural humility, and trauma-informed principles within the limits of the CMHP role.

Organize assessment information using the four Ps framework

Understand the continuum of care, ASAM Criteria, and LOCUS

Support shared decision-making in the least restrictive safe setting

Learners will reframe "noncompliance" as barriers to be understood and use a recognized framework to organize predisposing, enabling, and need factors.

Learners will screen for practical and social barriers such as transportation, cost, housing, food, and documentation, and link people to resources.

Learners will explore attitudinal, stigma-related, symptom-related, and co-occurring barriers with respectful, motivational questions.

Supervisors establish secure communication protocols to protect confidential clinical data during remote interactions.

Practitioners evaluate specific jurisdictional regulations governing the delivery of distance supervision.

Clinical educators resolve technological barriers to ensure continuous and effective professional mentorship.

Supervisors implement structured alliance-building techniques to foster trust and facilitate open clinical communication.

Professionals execute objective conflict resolution strategies to navigate power differentials and preserve the supervisory relationship.

Clinical educators identify and manage parallel processes and countertransference to protect client welfare and enhance supervisee competence.

Supervisors apply social role models to select among teaching, counseling, and consulting stances based on supervisee need rather than habit.

Professionals assess developmental stage by domain and set the supervisory environment slightly beyond current functioning to prompt growth.

Clinical educators recognize the strengths and limits of psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, person-centered, and systemic supervision traditions.

Effective clinical supervisors navigate distinct educational and administrative identities to foster professional growth.

Distinguishing the supervisory role from therapy ensures ethical boundaries remain intact.

Safeguarding client welfare remains the paramount objective of all supervisory interactions.