There must be few categories of childhood injury for which parental supervision, or the lack of it, has not been invoked as a contributory factor. Since 1990 alone, lack ofparental supervision has been proposed as a cause of road traffic injury,' electrical burn injury,2 and infant walker related injury.3 In most cases the identification of the aetiological role of parental supervision is intui...

This document outlines guidelines for supervision of students in health service psychology education and training programs. The goal was to capture optimal performance expectations for psychologists who supervise. It is based on the premises that supervisors (a) strive to achieve competence in the provision of supervision and (b) employ a competency-based, meta-theoretical approach to the super...

Educational supervision is regular supervision taking place in the context of a recognized training programme in order to determine learning needs and review progress. Patel’s article [1] effectively evaluates postgraduate educational supervision in one UK trust. This was a mixed methods study in which educational supervisors and trainees working within a large UK trust were surveyed online abo...

Learning is central to the functions of a school and it is important that instruction which is used as a basic tool to promote learning is perfected. It is generally believed that if teachers are left to themselves they may not try to develop their teaching skills. This then, underlines the significance of instructional supervision to help teachers improve their teaching skills. However, as Har...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the role of caregiver supervision in child-injury risk, with attention given to definitional and methodological issues and outlining important questions to be addressed in future research. METHODS Analysis, synthesis, and critique of existing literature. RESULTS Comparisons across studies are difficult because of insufficient specificity regarding what constitutes super...