Professional Development Plan
Professional Development Plan
Staff name: Counselor A Supervisor: Supervisor B Date: January 16, 2021
Foundation/Practice Dimension: PD V, Counseling Element: Counseling Families, Couples, and Significant Others
Competency to be addressed and page number from TAP 21: Page 116-Competency # 93: Describe and summarize the client’s behavior within
the group to document the client’s progress and identify needs and issues that may require a modification on the treatment plan.
Strengths: Conducts very comprehensive initial assessments to guide the treatment plan/ treatment of clients in individual sessions.
Challenges/Concerns: Difficulty in recognizing when the needs of the individual are different from the needs of the group.
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Present level of proficiency from rating forms
1 2 3 4
Level of proficiency to be achieved with this learning plan
1 2 3 4
Target date to complete the plan:
02/28/2021
What is the issue to
be addressed?
Goal
What is to be accomplished?
(measurable/behavioral)
Activities necessary to
achieve the goal
What will be done?
Metrics
How will progress be measured? Target Completion Date
Knowledge:
Situations in which
significant differences
between individual
and group goals
require changing either
the individual’s goals
or the groups focus.
1. Recognition of the
need to change the tx
plan of the individual
based on the
individual’s behavior.
2. Will articulate this
recognition in
supervision citing the
behaviors that
suggest a need to
reassess.
1. Counselor A will
receive Family
Therapy
Supervision as well
as individual
supervision with
current supervisor.
2. Counselor will
rewrite a treatment
plan for the
individual while in
supervision, with
support from the
supervisor.
3.
1.During supervision, counselor
and supervisor will review past
treatment plans with newly
revised treatment plans to note
differences between plans.
2. In reviewing plans, client
outcome and progress will be
noted to demonstrate change due
to updated tx plan.
1. Bi weekly review of charts-02/21/21
2. Family Therapy supervision will occur until 3/21/21 and be reassessed to determine if there is a need to continue.
What is the issue to
be addressed?
Goal
What is to be accomplished?
(measurable/behavioral)
Activities necessary to
achieve the goal
What will be done?
Metrics
How will progress be measured? Target Completion Date
Skill:
Documenting the
client’ group behavior
that has implications
for treatment planning.
1. Noting the family
dynamics and how
they will impact the
sessions and overall
outcomes.
1. Attend a training on
family dynamics,
roles, and
expectations in a
family system
disrupted by
substance use
disorder/s.
1. Discuss information
taken from training with
supervisor and how
counselor sees it playing
out in family sessions.
2. Note observations in
chart, and steps taken to
address the implications
for tx planning and
overall session outcomes
and progress.
1. Bi-weekly review
of charts.
Attitude:
Appreciation for
individual differences
in progress toward
treatment goals and
use of group
intervention.
Articulate the many factors
that determine why people
differ in progress and
outcomes during the same
family sessions based on
anecdotal experience and
then based on research.
Reconcile the differences
between the two.
Write a short paper on
what the research
demonstrates regarding
differences in progress and
outcomes.
Discuss the paper in supervision
and discuss personal beliefs and
how they are alike and differ
from the research being cited in
the paper,
Discuss how a lack of
appreciation of the differences
can be counterproductive in
treatment sessions.
01/24/21-individual
supervision
01/31/21-group
supervision
Additional comments: Counselor A has recently begun facilitating family/significant others therapy groups in our agency. She has expressed some
concerns on the transition, notably a focus that extends beyond the individual and the implications for treatment planning and treatment. Counselor A
came to the supervisor to request this opportunity as Counselor A is a student of systems theory and recognize families for the systems they are. She
recognizes that she does not have a full appreciation of the differences toward progress in a group setting and states that it may be due, in part, to her
lack of understanding of dynamics in a group setting in therapy. She is willing to learn and open to feedback when needed.
Supervisor signature: ___________________________Date: _______ Counselor: ___________________________________ Date______
Date for “re-observation” to assess performance: 04/15/21
Results:
Counselors continuing clinical assessments and tx plans show a marked improvement when documenting the need for individual treatment plans
rather than a plan that addresses the “group” as the only client in the room. Her notes document when the “assigned” roles, and “rules” of the group
present themselves during the session, the impact they have on the session, and how she responds to them or uses them as an intervention or
“teachable moment. She admits to still “falling prey” to some of her negative beliefs as to why some family members do not do as well as others. She
utilizes individual supervision to address her concerns and reports that she finds group supervision helpful as; it offers her the opportunity to learn
from others who also run family/significant other/ group therapy sessions.
Next Appointment: _______________________