Ethical Responsibilities & Liabilities in Supervision – What Every Supervisor Needs To Know (Australian & New Zealand Context)
Dr Kris Rao
About this webinar
Supervision has a crucial role in protecting clients, practitioners, and the profession. Supervision directly impacts practice fundamentals (such as informed consent and risk mitigation), therapeutic interactions (such as responding to cultural challenges, multiple relationships, defences, and transference/countertransference), safety (client and therapist vulnerabilities), and compliance confidence (confidentiality, privacy, record management, and disclosure).
Effective supervision is ethical supervision. The supervision-supervisee relationship is different from the therapist-client relationship. Supervisors need to understand their ethical responsibilities and know the bounds of their legal liability. Is a supervisor liable for their supervisee’s negligence? How close and intense should supervision be? What are the reasonable responsibilities and actions expected of a supervisor?
This webinar helps supervisors understand their ethical responsibilities and legal liabilities in an Australian and New Zealand context.
The Ethics Edge Series
Know your supervision duties—ethical and legal.
Learn how to navigate risk, responsibility, and compliance with confidence in supervision practice.
THE ETHICS EDGE
Strengthen your supervision practice
A flexible, self-paced online module with 5 lessons, 2 hours of video, downloadable slides, a quiz, 60 days of access, and an immediate 1.5-hour CPD certificate upon completion
The Ethics Edge Series
Supervise ethically. Protect clients, protect yourself.
Clarify your ethical duties and legal boundaries as a supervisor in the ANZ context.
About Dr Kris Rao
Kris is a psychotherapist & a psychoanalyst primarily providing long term therapy for complex trauma disorders. He is also a clinical supervisor for the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy (ANZAP) training program. He has a Master of Science in Medicine (Psychotherapy) and a Doctorate in Psychoanalysis. Kris teaches ethics & psychodynamic psychotherapy as adjunct faculty at universities and higher education institutions across Australia and New Zealand.