Towards Best Practice Supervision of Clinical Psychology Trainees

Towards Best Practice Supervision of Clinical Psychology Trainees

Supervision of professional practice is mandated in the training of clinical psychologists and consensually agreed to be central in such training. Supervision is intended to serve three related, but somewhat conflicting, functions: (1) normative functions of monitoring and ensuring client well-being, andmonitoring and evaluating supervisee competence; (2), restorative functions of supporting su...

Management of the Ataxias: towards best Clinical Practice

Reconciling the professional and student identities of clinical psychology trainees.

The study explored the ways in which qualified and trainee clinical psychologists perceived professional behaviour, as illustrated in a series of short vignettes, in student and clinical practice contexts. Comparisons were made to identify the extent to which ideas of professionalism differed across different learning contexts and between qualified and unqualified staff, with the aim of adding ...

Journal of Clinical Psychology Practice

In 1979, Gerald Russell described and named Bulimia Nervosa (Palmer, 2004). His rich clinical description allowed clinicians and researchers to detect and study the disorder and an explosion of attention and literature followed in the next decade (Palmer, 2004). Bulimia is a disorder characterized by recurrent, episodic binge eating, self-induced purging, restrictive dieting, or excessive exerc...

Journal of Clinical Psychology Practice

Knowledge about children’s fears and the clinical phenomenology of anxiety disorders has increased dramatically over the past three decades following the expansion of the anxiety and phobic disorders categories in the DSM-III (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) and the development of the Fear Survey Schedule for Children-Revised (FSSC-R; Ollendick, 1983). The FSSC-R, the most frequently us...