Trauma-Informed Supervision

Carolyn Knight is a professor of Social Work at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States. She is a social worker with 30 years of experience, mostly pro bono, working individually and in groups with adult survivors of childhood trauma, particularly sexual abuse. She is the author of Introduction to Working with Adult Survivors of Childhood Trauma: Strategies and Skills (2008) and Group Therapy for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (1996), co-editor of Group Work with Populations at Risk (with Geoffrey Grief, 4th ed., 2016), and co-author of a textbook on social work practice The life model of social work practice, 4th ed. Her recent presentations have focused on how to adopt a trauma-informed lens in clinical supervision and practice.

L. DiAnne Borders is the Burlington Industries Excellence Professor in the Counseling program at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States. She teaches clinical supervision and supervises doctoral students’ clinical supervision internships. Her current research focuses on supervision education and pedagogy as well as traumainformed supervision. She is the author of several books and numerous empirical and conceptual articles on clinical supervision, and serves as editor of The Clinical Supervisor.