Ww Clinical Management Introduction to J Clinical SupervisionWw What is Clinical Supervision? * Haynes, Cory, and Moulton (2003) state that: “A primary aim of supervision is to create a context in which the supervisee can acquire the experience needed to become an independent professional.” Haynes, also state that supervision is “artful, but it is an emerging formal arrangement with specific expectations, roles, responsibilities, and skills.”Ww What is Clinical Supervision? * Weston, Grim haw & Norton, 1989: “Co-ordination by someone taking responsibility for the work of others includes planning, scheduling, allocating, instructing and monitoring actions. * The supervisor usually organizes or directs the work of others by giving direct instructions, although subordinate supervisors may be involved as an additional layer between supervisor and worker”.Ww Clinical Supervision * Clinical supervision involves being available, looking over the shoulder of the trainee, teaching on-the-job with developmental conversations, b regular feedback and the provision of a rapid response to issues as they arise. _Ww Components of Clinical Supervision 1. Supervision is an intervention 2. Supervision is provided by a senior member of a profession 3. Supervision is a relationship that extends over time 4. The supervisor evaluates, monitors, and serves as a gatekeeperWw Clinical Supervisor’s Role * — The primary role of a clinical supervisor is that of a teacher * The second most important role is that of the mentor * Mentoring process involves relationship building. * — Identifies weaknesses for betterment * Supervision leaves supervisee challenged to perform their tasks correctly * — Evaluate the work * — Works as an advisor and consultation ¢ — Flexibility in nature * — Clinical supervisor is to oversee the supervisee’s work * Clinical supervisor counsel with the superviseeWw Types of Supervision 1. Educational Supervision: assessment of skills, evaluation of needs, provision of learning experiences, upgrading of knowledge and skills. 2. Administrative Supervision: monitoring work and workload, assuring work completion, quality and quantity control appropriate implementation of agency policies and procedures. 3. Supportive Supervision: providing support, understanding and assistance, understanding emotional needs. The supervisor provides employees with a supportive environment where they can enjoy high morale and job satisfaction.Ww Goals of Clinical Supervision 1. To provide for the professional growth, and development of the clinical supervisee. 2. To provide protection for the welfare of the client so they are not harmed by the training supervisee. 3. To keep a watchful eye on the supervisee’s performance to insure the supervisee is practicing within the guidelines of the profession. This means the clinical supervisor is the gatekeeper for the profession. 4. Teach, train, and empower the supervisee so they can become competent, independent clinicians who can carry out their goals, and be a positive influence on their clients.Ww Features of Supervision + 'Non-Managerial', 'Consultative' or 'Professional' Supervision — The idea of 'non-managerial supervision is in interest of the organization or agency & it looks to the development of the worker. — It argues that managers should not be concerned with educational supervision; and consultant supervisors should only focus on education and support. * Clinical Supervision and the emergence of psychoanalysis and counseling — Supervision, teaching and personal analysis have formed the central elements of training since the 1920s. — If we consider current approaches to training social workers, teachers or informal and community educators, then we can see similar elements.Ww Features of Supervision * Demand for Clinical Supervision’ In Counseling — By the early 1950s, with the 'coming of age' of the profession, there was a substantial growth ‘in the proportion of practitioners with significant experience. — A fellow practitioner to act in a consultative capacity' this linking of consultant supervision with the development of counseling is significant. — Acounselor supervisor may draw heavily on the theory and practice of a counseling model and apply this to supervision.Ww Features of Supervision * Psycho-dynamic Supervision — A psycho-dynamic supervisor would interpret the material being presented and use an awareness of the relationship dynamics between himself and the counselor in supervision as a means of supervising. — Aclient-centered supervisor would be concerned to communicate the core conditions of acceptance and respect her supervisee.Ww Features of Supervision * Linkage Of Supervision And Counseling — The first thing to say here is that it may well be appropriate for us as supervisors to change the focus of the session from ‘supervision’ to ‘counseling’. — The situation may demand it - and we have what may be described as a ‘counseling interlude’. * Psycho-Dynamic Insight — Psycho-dynamic insights, to work with supervisees to enhance the quality of their interactions with clients. — This does not entail moving beyond a supervisor's frame of reference.W YhatikYou-