Supervisor Certification

CRA / A-CRA Supervisor Certification

A clinician must attend an initial training of the treatment with a certified CRA/A-CRA trainer (approved by RJM & Associates) in order to be eligible to move on to certification for that particular treatment.

With the additional training of supervisors, agencies/programs can accomplish the important goal of sustainability. Certified supervisors can train and certify others at their own agencies, but the certification would not be tracked by RJM & Associates.

A clinician who is interested in becoming a certified CRA/A-CRA supervisor must first become a full certified clinician (see requirements above) in the desired treatment.

• The clinician would be required to complete certification in the remaining procedures to reach full CRA/A-CRA certification.
• These clinicians (supervisor-trainees) will then listen to and rate a series of recorded sessions provided by other clinicians from their own agency.  RJM is not responsible for finding recordings for the supervisor-trainees to code. RJM’s own expert coders will rate these same sessions. RJM coders will rate the sessions after the clinician (supervisor-trainee) to look for fidelity, quality of feedback, and agreement of coding.
• The supervisor-trainee must match the expert coder’s ratings (at least 80% or higher) on at least 5 sessions. RJM reserves the right to request additional inter-rater reliabilities with the supervisor-trainee.
• Supervisor-trainees must record themselves providing at least 1 coaching session with another clinician. The coaching session must cover the supervisor-trainee providing feedback to the clinician on a recent recording, coaching of a CRA/A-CRA procedure (with role play and feedback), and ensure the “spirit” of CRA/A-CRA.
• Supervisor-trainees will be provided a rating manual (with the agreement of the RJM rater) about halfway through the supervisor certification. There is a $30 fee for the manual and is NOT to be shared with anyone. Utilization of the coding manual helps to ensure fidelity to the model.
• Supervisors will receive a certificate as a certified supervisor upon successful completion of the relevant certification process.

Each RJM & Associates member has been trained extensively in coding sessions and utilizes comprehensive coding manuals that were created for each protocol.