PURPOSE This reflective paper offers a conceptual framework of clinical supervision that assists supervisors to create supportive relationships necessary for advanced practice development. CONCLUSIONS Combining established concepts of clinical supervision with systems psychodynamics enhances the supervisory experience. It is useful to supervisors to understand role transition as it sensitizes...

Structured supervision techniques encourage service providers to increase their knowledge, skills, and selfawareness in providing multicultural services. Structured techniques are described and illustrated.

Participants (N = 115) performed a computerized task under 3 conditions: no supervision, direct human supervision, and computer monitoring. Differences in performance across groups was evaluated using summary performance measures and detailed analyses of group performance over time. There was a statistically significant difference in performance quality but not performance quantity between the ...

Background Clinical supervisors are responsible for managing many facets of clinical learning and face a range of challenges when the need for "difficult" conversations arises, including the need to manage conflict and relationships. Methods Spotlight on Conversations Workshop was developed to improve the capacity of clinical supervisors to engage in difficult conversations. They were designe...

We used a rigorous case study methodology to examine one supervisory dyad's work together during one semester. We used the "best-worst" strategy of several recent researchers, multiple sources of qualitative and quantitative process data, and the perspectives both of the participants and of observers. A number of findings provide hypotheses to guide future research. For example. Session 2 was i...

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...

The recent publication of core competencies in suicide risk assessment and management (Suicide Prevention Resource Center, 2006) and the American Psychiatric Association’s (2003) practice guidelines have raised concerns about how best to address these issues in clinical supervision of trainees. This article reviews the identified core competencies, addresses implications for supervision of trai...

BACKGROUND Clinical placement is an essential component of training in health sciences because it is where theory and practice interface. OBJECTIVE To explore experiences of health sciences students during clinical placement in terms of supervision, challenges and coping strategies. DESIGN It was a cross sectional survey. SETTING University ofZimbabwe, College of Health Sciences. PARTIC...

Australia, like other countries, is experiencing a crisis in the recruitment and retention of nurses. Clinical supervision has been suggested as a potential strategy to enhance retention. However, there is a paucity of literature regarding the successful implementation of clinical supervision. The aim of this study is to explore and evaluate ways of implementing clinical supervision as undertak...