Quantum Units Education®

Introduction

1. Professional treatment for substance use disorders is a rapidly changing discipline with licensing and funding sources of all types expecting programs to use evidence-based practices in the delivery of treatment services.

2. Which of the following is NOT a true statement about professional substance abuse treatment organizations?

3. When clinical supervisors understand the nature of the supervisor/supervisee relationship and exercise their responsibilities in a respectful, fair, and objective manner, it is likely that tension, discomfort, and conflict will never arise between the two.

4. Clinical supervision competencies categorized under performance domains include:

Implementing Guidelines

5. Research indicates that the most productive systemic changes in supervisory practices within an organization are made by administrative order.

6. A significant amount of time is needed to implement an effective clinical supervision model and most agencies can expect to complete the initial change process within which time frame?

7. When implementing a program at the state level, a leader should be chosen to:

8. At the agency level, clinical supervisors are typically promoted to these positions based on their performance as clinicians or because they have advanced educational degrees but often do not have the proper training or skills for supervision.

9. The specific tasks, responsibilities, and roles of supervisors, based on agency mission, target population, theoretical model, treatment, modality, and general structure tend to be very similar among agencies in the substance abuse field.

10. Which of the following is not a competency that falls under the category of theories, roles, and modalities of clinical supervision:

11. Supervisorial leadership may be defined as a bidirectional social influence process in which supervisors seek voluntary participation of supervisees to achieve organizational goals, while providing leadership in the management structure of the agency.

12. Recognizing that the supervisor-supervisee relationship develops over time and that the stage of relationship development influences the rules, roles, and expectations of the alliance is an important competency under the category of leadership.

13. As part of the supervisory alliance, a supervisor must have a clear understanding of the nature and dynamics of this relationship as exhibited by:

14. Critical thinking refers to the cognitive processes of:

15. Being familiar with and abiding by current principles, laws, ethical guidelines, and agency policies regarding personnel management is a critical step in assisting supervisees in honing their critical thinking skills.

16. Clinical supervision is distinguished from administrative supervision in most models of supervisory practice, and the two rarely overlap in the real world.

17. Counselor development and performance evaluation are integral to each other in that performance evaluation without a counselor development process would not necessarily lead to improved counselor proficiency and counselor development activities in the absence of performance evaluation would likely be untargeted, general, and of less value to the counselor.

18. When teaching, facilitating, collaborating, and supporting counselor self-efficacy, supervisors must:

19. Learning about supervisee’s cultures, lifestyles, beliefs, and other key factors that may influence their job performance falls under the following performance domain:

20. Ensuring that supervisors practice within their area of clinical and supervisory competency is a critical part of the counselor development domain.

21. Program development is the process of designing, implementing, monitoring, and improving a program’s activities to ensure maximum effectiveness and efficiency of services within the limitations of the agency and its operating environment.

22. Which of the following is NOT a program development and quality assurance competency?

23. It is a professional and ethical responsibility of clinical supervisors to regularly monitor the quality of supervisee’s performance, to facilitate improvement in supervisee’s clinical competence, and to assess readiness to practice with increased autonomy.

24. As part of the performance evaluation process, clinical supervisors should do all of the following EXCEPT:

25. Administrative functions within an agency must be managed separately from clinical functions in order to preserve the quality of services being delivered within that agency.

Appendix B Professional Codes of Ethics Specific to Clinical Supervision

26. The generally accepted  limits of confidentiality-when harm to self or others is threatened, when the abuse of children, elders or disabled persons is suspected and in cases when the court compels the mental health professional to testify and break confidentiality- may be modified by state or federal statute.

27. Any sexual, romantic, or intimate relationship is considered to be a violation in the Professional Code of Ethics for Clinical Supervisors.  Sexual relationship means:

28. Which of the following is a true statement regarding the need for clinical supervision throughout a counselor’s career:

29. The primary obligation of  the supervisor is to assist the supervisee in becoming licensed in a timely manner.

30. Ideally supervisors will have multiple roles (e.g., teacher, clinical supervisor, administrative supervisor) with supervisees in order to assess  the supervisees in a variety of situations.

31. Supervisors should establish a psychotherapeutic relationship with their supervisee’s to ensure that personal issues are addressed on a regular basis as part of ongoing supervision.

32. Supervisors should use the following prioritized sequence in resolving conflicts among the needs of the client, the needs of the supervisee, and the needs of the program or agency: