1st Edition

Trauma-Informed Supervision Core Components and Unique Dynamics in Varied Practice Contexts

Edited By Carolyn Knight, L. DiAnne Borders Copyright 2020
256 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

Survivors of trauma are disproportionately represented in agencies providing a broad range of behavioral, social, and mental health services. Practitioners in these settings must understand and be able to respond to survivors of trauma in ways that are empowering, normalize and validate their experiences and reactions, and minimize the risk of retraumatization. Practitioners also will be... Read more

Introduction – Trauma-informed supervision: Core components and unique dynamics in varied practice contexts

Carolyn Knight and L. DiAnne Borders

1. Trauma-informed supervision: Historical antecedents, current practice, and future directions

Carolyn Knight

2. Trauma-informed supervision and consultation: Personal reflections

Christine A. Courtois

3. Child welfare supervision: Special issues related to trauma-informed care in a unique environment

Crystal Collins-Camargo and Becky Antle

4. Trauma-informed supervision: Counselors in a Level I hospital trauma center

Laura J. Veach and Elizabeth Hodges Shilling

5. Trauma-informed supervision in deployed military settings

W. Brad Johnson, Matthew Johnson, and Kristin L. Landsinger

6. The intersection of identities in supervision for trauma-informed practice: Challenges and strategies

Roni Berger, Laura Quiros, and Jamie R. Benavidez-Hatzis, LCSW

7. A personal narrative on responding to the tragedy at Pulse in Orlando: A volunteer supervisor’s perspective

John T. Super

8. Trauma-informed intercultural group supervision

Anthony Haans and Nora Balke

9. When religion hurts: Supervising cases of religious abuse

Craig S. Cashwell and Paula J. Swindle

10. Attending to racial trauma in clinical supervision: Enhancing client and supervisee outcomes

Alex L. Pieterse

11. Trauma-informed supervision in the disaster context

Carole Adamson

Biography



Carolyn Knight is a professor of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States. She is a social worker with 30 years of experience, mostly pro bono, working individually and in groups with adult survivors of childhood trauma, particularly sexual abuse. She is the author of Introduction to Working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma: Strategies and Skills (2008) and Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1996), co-editor of Group Work with Populations at Risk (with Geoffrey Grief, 4th ed., 2016), and co-author of a textbook on social work practice The life model of social work practice, 4th ed. Her recent presentations have focused on how to adopt a trauma-informed lens in clinical supervision and practice.



L. DiAnne Borders is the Burlington Industries Excellence Professor in the Counseling program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States. She teaches clinical supervision and supervises doctoral students’ clinical supervision internships. Her current research focuses on supervision education and pedagogy as well as traumainformed supervision. She is the author of several books and numerous empirical and conceptual articles on clinical supervision, and serves as editor of The Clinical Supervisor.