Clinical Supervision across Australia, Türkiye, Syria, and Bangladesh: From WEIRD to WONDERFUL

Background: Clinical supervision in providing mental health and psychosocial support services (MHPSSs) is an ethical imperative a key to ensuring quality of care terms service users’ skills enhancement, well-being, satisfaction. However, humanitarian contexts low-resource countries usually lack sufficient infrastructures ensure staff have access supervision. Against this backdrop, pilot program was introduced Bangladesh Syria help MHPSS provide care. provided by experts unfamiliar with these decontextualizes the process hinders cultural relevance. The aim paper present decolonial model called “WONDERFUL Supervision”. Methods: We fortnightly online total 32 practitioners (seven twenty-five Syria) working as well their surrounding (such Türkiye) between 2019 2021.The issues talked about were needed for optimal levels service, manage burnout, cases. Focus group discussions reflective included 19 participants, involving both supervisors across sites. Results: Despite some notable effects, obstructed due being decontextualized, such not having adequate knowledge culture beneficiaries, perceived feeling power imbalance, limited resources (e.g., internet connection technical support), different time zones. This defect paves way new mode supervision, WONDERFUL, which takes into account contextual factors other sociocultural aspects. Conclusions: WONDERFUL has potential indigenize concept clinical thereby more sustainably effectively resource-limited countries, especially contexts.