Trauma-Informed Supervision

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.

Introduction – Trauma-informed supervision: Core components and unique dynamics in varied practice contexts 1. Trauma-informed supervision: Historical antecedents, current practice, and future directions 2. Trauma-informed supervision and consultation: Personal reflections 3. Child welfare supervision: Special issues related to trauma-informed care in a unique environment 4. Trauma-informed supervision: Counselors in a Level I hospital trauma center 5. Trauma-informed supervision in deployed military settings 6. The intersection of identities in supervision for trauma-informed practice: Challenges and strategies 7. A personal narrative on responding to the tragedy at Pulse in Orlando: A volunteer supervisor’s perspective 8. Trauma-informed intercultural group supervision 9. When religion hurts: Supervising cases of religious abuse 10. Attending to racial trauma in clinical supervision: Enhancing client and supervisee outcomes 11. Trauma-informed supervision in the disaster context