MLD 481BH Applied Leadership 1-Behavioral Health Supervision

Lecture Hours: 5
Credits: 5

Broadens and builds clinical leadership capacity and capability for creating, maintaining, and growing clinically effective and high engagement work teams. Focuses on individual, team, and organizational dynamics that impacts function, form, and systems. Gains awareness of understanding skills that foster organizational human processes for development of productive work teams. Builds individual capacity to lead, engage, and manage change in behavioral health work teams.

Prerequisite: Entry into the Leadership Applied Baccalaureate Program; or completion of AAS degree; and Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselor (CADC) II or III or Qualified Mental Health Professional (QMHP) or higher credential, or consent of instructor.
Recommended: Prior management experience. Working in behavioral health or related clinical settings with opportunities for clinical supervision.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Outcome 1: Introduction to Clinical Supervision, incorporating Advanced Studies in Leadership/Management.
Outcome 2: Externship/Internship in behavioral health industry sector- Application of behavioral health clinical supervision and leadership/management skills.
Outcome 3: Demonstrate Clinical Supervision and Leadership/Management Skills in industry sector.
Outcome 4: Document prior learning.

Content Outline

Introduction to Behavioral Health Clinical Supervision, incorporating Advanced Studies in Leadership/Management
- Application of behavioral health clinical supervision and leadership/management skills in the behavioral health workplace
- Produce organization structure for behavioral health unit operations.
Externship/Internship in behavioral health industry sector
- Demonstrate management strategies and clinical supervision competencies in behavioral health.
- Create a profile for individual change and improvement.
Demonstrate Clinical Supervision and Leadership/Management skills in behavioral health
- Produce clinical supervision and administrative management structure
- Understand which key leaders of the field to emulate.
- Create a philosophy for effective people management and clinical supervision.
Document prior learning
- Produce model for sustainable and effective clinical supervision and management plan.
- Articulate reasoning for management plan.