Purpose, Goals and Objectives of Supervision

• To assist the supervisee to improve their own clinical and therapeutic skills by supervisor feedback

• To promote development of supervisee’s professional identity and competence

• To ensure safe and ethically sound clinical practice

• To ensure that interventions are conducted in a competent way, and based upon the best available evidence

• To ensure the supervisee’s own mental health is addressed where they are working with emotionally difficult material, high clinical volumes or are themselves in distress unrelated to their work​

• The content of supervision will focus on the acquisition of knowledge, conceptualization, and skills within the defined scope of practice.

• The context will ensure understanding of ethics, codes, rules, regulations, standards, guidelines (including consent, confidentiality/ privacy), and all relevant legislation

 

Practicalities and Structure of Supervision Sessions

• Supervision sessions will be held every…………………………………………………………………………….

• The length of supervision sessions will be a minimum of…………………………………………………………

• The supervision meeting will be delivered via……………………………………………………………………….

• If either of us need to cancel the supervision session, then reasonable steps will be made to inform the other party and rearrange.

• Both the supervisor and supervisee are responsible for ensuring that they can complete supervision in a private space and uninterrupted

• Supervision will start and end punctually

• Supervisees are responsible for calling the supervisor or setting up video links for the agreed time

• An agenda will be agreed at the start of each session

• Supervisees will prioritise cases for discussion according to risk and clinical need

• An action plan will be agreed for each presented case

• Copies of the supervision notes will be sent to the supervisor

• Methods of supervision may include:

  • Case discussion regarding assessment, formulation, interventions and engagement

  • Rehearsal techniques for role play

  • Direct observation and feedback of audio or video recordings

  • Sharing and review of educational materials, handouts, guidelines, literature and studies.

 

Supervisee’s tasks

• To prepare for each supervision session and ensure that all clinical records are up-to-date.

• To communicate clear objectives for presenting patients

• To engage fully with the clinical supervision process and adhere to agreed action plans.

• Where feasible, to submit regular live clinical material for review/ rating by Cognitive Therapy Scale-Revised (CTSR)

 

Clinical Supervisor’s tasks

• To maintain BABCP therapist accreditation.

• Attend clinical supervision themselves in accordance to BABCP standards

• To provide clinical supervision, guidance, and instruction in accordance with the best available evidence.

• To promote case formulation methods consistent with evidence-based treatment protocols for depression and anxiety disorders.

• Where feasible to rate video/audio of sessions conducted by the supervisee using the Cognitive Therapy Scale-Revised (CTS-R)

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Confidentiality

• Supervisees should inform clients about the use of supervision when explaining the limits of confidentiality

• Professional and clinical issues discussed in supervision are confidential and are not to be discussed outside the session. The exceptions to this are as follows:

  • When requested to release information by a court of law, coroner’s office or professional body

  • When the supervisor requires clinical advice from his/her own superviso

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