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Digital Seminar

Ethical Decision Making in Clinical Supervision

Essential Strategies for Navigating Complex Supervisory Responsibilities

Speaker:
Amie Bryant, LCSW, ACS
Duration:
Approx 6 Hours
Copyright:
Jun 02, 2026
Product Code:
POS150711
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

  • Step-by-step ethical decision making models to guide confident, values driven supervision
  • Navigate common ethical dilemmas with clarity and confidence
  • Practical strategies that protect clients, supervisees, and your professional role

 

Clinical supervision carries a distinct level of responsibility.

Supervisors are tasked with protecting client safety, supervisee development, and stewardship of the profession – all within complex power dynamics and diverse cultural contexts.

And when ethical questions arise in supervision, there are very rarely clear or simple answers.

Supervisors face dilemmas that extend beyond direct clinical work, including gatekeeping decisions, competence evaluation, boundary management, confidentiality tensions, and the balance between autonomy and oversight.

Without clear frameworks, these challenges can increase ethical risk, liability concerns, and strain supervisory relationships.

Which is precisely why we teamed up with supervision expert Amie Bryant, LCSW, ACS, for this training to give you practical ways to navigate ethical complexity with clarity, confidence, and integrity through structured decision making frameworks and realistic supervision scenarios.

You’ll walk away with:

  • Greater confidence navigating complex ethical dilemmas in supervision
  • Clear frameworks for ethical decision making in real supervisory situations
  • Practical strategies for balancing client welfare and supervisee development
  • Increased awareness of how values, power, and identity shape supervision
  • Tools to reduce ethical and legal risk while supporting growth promoting supervision

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Speaker

Amie Bryant, LCSW, ACS's Profile

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Amie Bryant, LCSW, ACS, is a licensed clinical social worker and nationally recognized Approved Clinical Supervisor with over 15 years of experience providing clinical supervision to mental health professionals. In addition to her psychotherapy work with adolescents and adults, Amie offers advanced training, supervision, and consultation for clinicians at all stages of their careers.

She holds a certificate in advanced clinical supervision from the Smith College School for Social Work and is a CCE Approved Clinical Supervisor. Amie has led supervision trainings and developed advanced-level workshops for experienced clinicians seeking to deepen their supervisory practice.

A former training coordinator and director of the Fort Lewis College Counseling Center, Amie also spent five years on faculty at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Social Work. Her supervision approach is collaborative, insight-driven and grounded in real-world experience – making her an ideal guide for anyone looking to elevate their group supervision skills.
Ms. Bryant is a former training coordinator and director of the Fort Lewis College Counseling Center and spent 5 years as an adjunct faculty member for the University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amie Bryant has an employment relationship with Four Corners Counseling, LLC. and receives a speaking honorarium from Telehealth Certification Institute, Make An Impact, Smith College School of Social Work Professional Education, NASW Colorado, University of Denver Graduate School of Social Work, and Adelphi University School of Social Work Continuing Education. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amie Bryant is a member of the NASW and EMDRIA.


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Objectives

  1. Identify common ethical dilemmas that arise in clinical supervision.
  2. Apply relevant codes of ethics and regulatory guidelines to respond ethical situations with clarity and confidence.
  3. Apply a structured ethical decision-making model to navigate complex supervisory dynamics.
  4. Analyze the role of personal values, power, and professional responsibility in ethical decision-making.
  5. Utilize strategies to foster supervisory relationships that prioritize integrity, transparency, and accountability.
  6. Utilize proactive practices, documentation strategies, and supervisory agreements that establish clear ethical guardrails and reduce the likelihood of future dilemmas.

Outline

Setting Foundations for Responsible and Ethical Supervision

  • Intersectional identity introduction and positionality
  • Conflicts of interest, scope of practice, limitations of the research and potential risks
  • Overview of dual responsibilities: client welfare & supervisee development
  • Defining harmful and inadequate supervision

Ethical Dilemmas in Supervision: Issues, Impacts, and Best Practices

  • Dual relationships & boundary issues
  • Competence & evaluating supervisee readiness
  • Gatekeeping & responsibility to the profession
  • Confidentiality in supervision: Client vs. supervisee privacy
  • Liability and risk management considerations
  • Effects of ethical dilemmas

Core Ethical Obligations and Standards for Supervisors

  • Codes of ethics and requirements for supervisors (NASW, APA, ACA,  NBCC, AAMFT, NADAAC)
  • Key duties
    • Competence
    • Informed consent
    • Monitoring client welfare
    • Evaluation and documentation
  • Where codes align vs. where ambiguity exists

Structured Approaches to Ethical Decision-Making

  • Components of an ethical decision-making model
  • Examples and resources for current models
  • Step-by-step process for applying models in supervision
  • Comparing ethical absolutism vs ethical relativism
  • Case vignettes

Integrating Ethics into Everyday Supervision

  • Supervision contracts – Setting clear expectations, roles, and boundaries
  • Informed consent – Clarifying the purpose of supervision and confidentiality limits
  • Evaluation processes – Consistent and competency-based methods to support development
  • Proactive strategies to reduce ethical dilemmas:
    • Proper documentation techniques
    • Diligence and regular check-ins
    • Transparency
  • Supervisory red flags checklist for early intervention

Values, Power, and the Self of the Supervisor

  • How supervisor and supervisee identities shape perceptions of ethical issues
  • Supervisory responsibility for addressing bias, microaggressions, and systemic inequities
  • How personal values and biases influence ethical responses
  • Navigating inherent power imbalances in supervision
  • Transparency, humility, and integrity as ethical anchors
  • Strategies for integrating “use of self” into ethical supervision

Assuming and Mitigating Risk

  • Legal and ethical considerations
  • Increasing & mitigating risk
  • Proactive risk management through transparency and clear expectations

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Behavioral Health Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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