July 2024: Reflective Supervision

Reflective practice is regarded as best practice within numerous disciplines and work settings, particularly in the human service delivery workforce. This session will provide an overview of reflection, reflective supervision and the training and experience that can support personal use of reflective practice concepts, as well as the training, support and experience needed for those providing reflective supervision for others. Leaning heavily on both Implementation Science and Translational Science, reflection work is the wellspring of problem solving, generating new ideas to enhance outcomes, implementing evidence-based practices, perspective change, advancing one’s professional work, etc. Supporting others in this process is guided by awareness of the stress response systems, and attention to regulatory states, co-regulation, and state dependent functioning. To incorporate these concepts with fidelity into reflective work, the Neurosequential Model in Reflection & Supervision (NMRS) is an outgrowth of Dr. Bruce Perry's Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) and uses these core concepts to enhance reflective work and scaffold the process of both personal and systems level change. 

Presenter:

Dr. Kristie Brandt, NP, CNM, PHN, MS, DNP is an internationally known teacher, clinician, and consultant, specializing in infant and early childhood mental health, trauma, and reflective supervision. In 2002, she founded what is now the 15-month U.C. Davis CPE Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship that has trained over 600 Fellows from around the world. She was the Chief of Public Health in Napa County, and retired after 25 years of public service. While there, she developed the Therapeutic Child Care Center for children 0-5, and in the process became acquainted with Dr. Bruce Perry and his NMT work. She has studied, taught, clinically implemented, and developed early childhood and reflective practice applications using Perry’s concepts for over 25 years. Dr. Brandt also worked closely with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, and taught with him globally for over two decades on Touchpoints and child development. She is lead editor of the book “Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health: Core Concepts & Clinical Practice”, author of the book “Facilitating the Reflective Process: An Introductory Workbook,” and has authored or co-authored numerous journal articles and chapters. Brandt earned her Master’s and Doctorate at Case Western Reserve University, and completed a post-doctoral Fellowship in Infant-Parent Mental Health through the Child Development Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital. She is endorsed as an Infant-Family & Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist and Reflective Mentor through the California Center for Infant-Family & Early Childhood Mental Health, and an endorsed Infant Mental Health Specialist & Clinical Mentor through the international Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health. She is also licensed and board certified as both a nurse practitioner and nurse midwife. Recognition of her work includes the 2013 Touchpoints Distinguished Leader Award from the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Boston Children’s Hospital, the Phyllis Rae McGinley Champion for Children Award from the ChildTrauma Academy in 2016; the Distinguished Alumni Award from Case Western Reserve University FPB in Cleveland, Ohio in 2019; and the Alicia Lieberman Infant Mental Health Leadership Award from the California Association for Infant Mental Health (CalAIMH) in 2023.