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New Research Options

Hello supervisors,

Would you like to contribute to clinical supervision research? There are several opportunities to participate in new cutting-edge research on important aspects of clinical supervisory practice.  There are ongoing projects on supervision evaluation, group supervision and the construction and validation of assessment instruments for supervisor evaluations of trainee competence, evaluation of supervisory competence. A PhD research investigation by Jessica Barrett at the University of Technology, Sydney is examining the concordance-discordance between supervisor-supervisee evaluations of supervision. Whilst previous research has independently scrutinised  evaluations by supervisors or supervisees, evaluations from both members of the supervisory dyad have rarely been examined. Of note is the fact that valid and realistic appraisal of one’s competence by supervisees is an important element of the reflective practice meta-competency, making the research venture both interesting and of value to the supervisor in practice. To participate or contribute, go to the Collaborate menu and click “Current Research” if the specific project has a link. Alternatively, contact me on [email protected]

King regards

Craig Gonsalvez

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Maintaining your supervisor training accreditation

Hello All,
Just a note to remind Australian Psychology Board (Psy-BA) approved clinical supervisors that they must do a one-day supervisor training workshop (Master Class) and register completion of this activity with the Psychology Board to maintain their supervisor accreditation. C-Best is an approved Psychology Board approved provider. Check out our website that has a schedule of Master class workshops. These workshops are designed to enhance key supervisor competencies and meta competencies and cover important new theoretical and practice-based developments in the field. Popular master class workshops include: (i) Best practice in CBT supervision: a competency-based approach and (ii) Enhancing reflective practitioner and scientist-practitioner meta competencies in supervision and (iii) Teaching ethical practice via supervision.

Craig Gonsalvez

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Competency-based models of supervision: New wine in old wine-skins?

Craig Gonsalvez: There has been a resurgence of interest in clinical supervision of late. In the words of Watkins (2014), an authority on the topic, “the slow and steady evolution of supervision over the last century has given way to a sea change transformation over the last decade,” (In CL Watkins & DL Milne [Eds] Wiley-Blackwell International Handbook of Clinical Supervision, p. 179). A recent review in the Australian Psychologist (Gonsalvez et al., 2017, Recent developments in Professional Supervision: Challenges and Practice Implications, Australian Psychologist, 52, 83-85) suggested that the number articles on competency-based supervision in scientific journals had increased from 1.8% (1986-1990) to 8.3%  (2011-2015).   However, the notion of competence is as old as supervision itself. So are these new changes to models and training, guidelines and practices, worthy of the attention the topic has captured? Or are these changes mostly window-dressing, re-packaging, new wine in old wine-skins? We’d love to hear what you think.