The Architecture of Supervision: The Learning Partnership Approach to Responsive Supervision

About the Speaker: Dr. Rod Goodyear is an emeritus professor at the University of Redlands, where he maintains a part-time appointment with a master’s program he founded to train Chinese counselors and psychotherapists. He is also Emeritus Professor at the University of Southern California. His primary area of scholarship has been the training and supervision of mental health professionals. Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision (Bernard & Goodyear, 2019), now in its sixth edition, is translated into both Chinese and Korean and, over its three decades, has become the most cited publication on clinical supervision.

He served on the task forces that developed both the 2014 APA Supervision Guidelines and the just-approved revisions to those guidelines (linked here). The American Psychological Association awarded him the Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Psychology Education and Training in 2015.

Before coming to the University of Redlands, Rod chaired the APA-accredited Counseling Psychology PhD program at the University of Southern California for more than two decades. He was also the 2015 President of the American Psychological Association’s Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.

Rod’s Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship at Yonsei University (Seoul) in 2012 awakened an interest in clinical supervision and psychotherapy internationally, which has since become a dominant focus of his professional work. This international emphasis is reflected in professional and research collaborations with colleagues in China, South Korea, and Latin America. He is especially proud of his affiliation with the Hubei Oriental Insight Mental Health Institute, which has resulted in multiple collaborations—most notably a two-year training program (co-taught with Carol Falender) that is now in its 10th year and has trained over 1,000 Chinese clinicians in competency-based clinical supervision.

In recognition of his global contributions, Rod received the Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy’s Distinguished Award for the International Advancement of Psychotherapy in 2018.

About the Workshop:

This workshop introduces participants to the Learning Partnership Framework, a research-informed, comprehensive approach to responsive and effective clinical supervision—framed fundamentally as a teaching–learning process. Drawing on best-practice literature (e.g., Borders et al., 2014; Choy-Brown et al., 2022; Dorsey et al., 2018; Ellis et al., 2014; Milne et al., 2008), the Framework provides supervisors with a clear conceptual map for navigating complex, dynamic supervisory contexts by integrating information-gathering, relationship-building, and intervention processes.

Through interactive discussion and applied examples, participants will explore the five interrelated domains forming the architecture of effective supervision:

1. Supervisory case conceptualization

2. Methods for obtaining information about supervisees

3. Relationship-focused interventions

4. Core teaching strategies

5. Supervisee competencies that define learning objectives

By the end of the session, attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how to use real-time information to guide supervision in ways that are both developmentally attuned and relationally responsive.

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The workshop is free for all attendees, however you MUST register. 

CEU documentation will be provided (small administrative fee applies)

Space is limited to the first 120 registrants

Box lunch provided