Thesis projects are a challenging task for students as well as their supervisors. In most cases, students have not managed such large projects before. Many supervisors are good researchers, but have not received training in pedagogy and project management. This means that students as well as supervisors often lack best practices in managing thesis projects. This paper fills this gap by providin...

Clinical supervision for residential care staff is essential, and yet has rarely been studied. Drawing from the reflective practice tradition, we interviewed residential care supervisors about their clinical decision-making process, and analyzed the data qualitatively to identify common themes and distill their beliefs and reported practices. We found supervisors prioritized a compassion-based ...

Multiple attributes are expected of postgraduate research supervisors. Provision of timely and effective face-to-face feedback is one such skill that carries enormous significance in supervisee's professional development. Feedback allows the supervisees to improve upon their performances. Unfortunately, both supervisors and supervisees have contrasting approaches towards the ongoing feedback pr...

New York State required substance use disorder (SUD) treatment programs to be 100% tobacco-free in 2008. The current study examined counselor (N = 364) and clinical supervisor (N = 98) perceptions of how extensively the tobacco-free regulation was implemented in their treatment programs, perceived accountability for implementing the regulation, and use of OASAS-provided resources to aid impleme...