Clinical Supervision Panel Discussion

This workshop provides an exploration of the importance and value of clinical supervision in child life practice. Participants will gain skills to begin developing their own supervision groups through the information and experience gathered from this session.

Participants will:

*Gain knowledge about the practice of group and individual supervision and its value to the child life profession.

*Learn the tools needed to initiate or further develop a clinical supervision program in their department.

*Understand the dynamic interaction of facilitator and supervisee through observation and participation in a live individual clinical supervision session.

DOMAIN: Professional Responsibility; 1.5 PDUs

Gloria Mattera

Diane Rode MPS, ATR-BC, LCAT, CCLS

Diane Rode is the director of the child life department at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital in New York City. A Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, Ms. Rode has nearly 34 years of experience in the design and development of creative arts modalities and interventions in a children’s hospital, and she consults nationally and internationally with an expertise in clinical supervision, reflective practice, and creative arts and media interventions for children and families in healthcare.

Hilary Woodward

MS, CCLS

Hilary Woodward, MS, CCLS is a child life specialist in the Pediatric Emergency Department at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. She is an adjunct faculty member at Bank Street College of Education as well as founder and director of the child life program at BASE Camp, a simulation-based training program in pediatric emergency medicine for physicians, nurses, and child life specialists (pembasecamp.org). In 2021, Hilary was elected to the executive board of INSPIRE (International Network for Simulation-based Pediatric Innovation, Research, & Education), and she is the first psychosocial professional to serve in this role

Hilary’s professional interests include simulation, interprofessional education and collaboration, and pediatric pain management; she has published and presented her work locally, nationally, and internationally. Hilary has served as a subject matter expert and item writer for the Child Life Certification Commission, and she is a past chair of the Association of Child Life Professionals' Mentorship Committee and Pre-Internship Work Group.