Supervisor’s Report

Introduction
BABCP sets and monitors standards for CBT Practitioner Accreditation and Reaccreditation. A Clinical
Supervisor’s report is an essential part of checking how the practitioner meets our standards.

To fill the form, please check the boxes ( ) and click to enter text on the specified areas (!)

Who can provide a Supervisor Report for a CBT Practitioner?

The Supervisor must -.

 be the applicant's current or most recent clinical supervisor (within the last three years)
 be able to confirm the applicant’s supervision log is accurate
 be able to confirm their declarations

How to share and send the report

 It is the applicant’s responsibility to ask you to complete and submit the report within the correct
timeframe for the application - the report must be sent before we receive the application up to
one month in advance.
 The report must be dated within one month of the application.
 The report should be emailed directly to us at accreditation.reports@babcp.com. Please save
the report using the applicant’s full name, followed by “CBT Supervisor Report”. Please also type
this in the subject field of the email.
 If it’s not possible to provide a real or electronic signature on the report, please type your name
in the signature box. The email address from which you send it to us will serve as confirmation of
your identity and that you wrote the report.
 We suggest that you copy the applicant into the email when you send it to us. While reports sent
directly are not routinely shown to the applicant, they may see it using rights under Data
Protection legislation.

If there is further information you want to give to us that is not included in the report you have shared
with the applicant, you may do so. However, if such information results in a complaint or fitness to
practice concern regarding the applicant, we cannot guarantee that such information will remain
confidential.

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What to do if there are concerns about a CBT Practitioner’s fitness to practice? - Information for
supervisors

If you have concerns about the applicant’s fitness to practice CBT, then this should be addressed by the
following –

 Discuss your concerns with the applicant if possible and for example assist them in planning the
additional activities you feel are required to meet the expectations. You can include details of
this within the form.
 If you feel unable to address the concerns with your supervisee, please contact us for fitness to
practice advice or raise a complaint if appropriate - Complaints and Feedback.

If you require further assistance, you can email us at accreditation@babcp.com or find our contact
information here Contact Accreditation.

Applicant’s Details

Applicant’s Name
!
Applicant’s BABCP Membership
number (if known)
!

Supervisor Details

Supervisor Name !
Email !
Work Address !
Telephone !

A Clinical Supervisor for therapists applying for accreditation/reaccreditation must be a BABCP

Accredited Practitioner, or sufficiently qualified and experienced in CBT to be able to reliably
comment on the supervisee’s current CBT practice. Supervisors must also be currently practicing CBT.

Please give details of your CBT qualifications, experience, and current practice if you aren’t accredited
with us. Please see here for further information.

BABCP Membership number: ! BABCP CBT Accredited Practitioner *

BABCP Accredited Supervisor*
BABCP Member

*If you are a BABCP Accredited Practitioner, or BABCP Accredited Supervisor, you do not need to give

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details for the next 4 items. All other Supervisors must give information for all items.

Other CBT Interest Group / Organisation

Membership !
Qualifications in CBT !
Training in CBT !
Experience using CBT !

Supervisors CBT Practice

Supervisor’s Job Title/Employment Position

!
Details of Supervisor’s current CBT practice
!

Relationship to Applicant

Are you the Applicant’s current Clinical

Yes No
Supervisor?

What is your current professional relationship

with the Applicant?
!
Is the Applicant in current clinical practice in CBT
Yes No
at the time of this report?

Years: ! Months: !
Dates from/to (mm/dd/yyyy): !
Please provide details of your current or previous
supervision arrangements. This must be within
the last three years. Individual hours per month: !
Group/Peer hours per month: !
Number of people in group: !

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Method and Content of Supervision
Never/ Some Most/All
Rarely sessions sessions

Agenda setting for the Supervision setting

Risk & safety (client/therapist/others), ethical issues

Therapeutic or Supervisory relationship

Case conceptualisation/formulation

Discussion about therapeutic strategies, treatment planning, theoretical

information

Rehearsal, modelling and role-playing of therapeutic techniques

Experiential exercises and skills practise

Live samples (recorded or direct)

Evaluating competence, including skills measures

(such as CTS-R)

Supervisee’s thoughts, attitudes and beliefs

Review of the Supervisory arrangement and experience, two-way feedback

Details of Applicant’s Clinical Practice

Profile of Clinical Practice

Client population (please provide brief bullet

points)
!
CBT approaches and other approaches
used (please provide brief bullet points)
!

Nature of evidence

What is the nature of the evidence you have of

the Supervisee’s practice?
!
(live assessment/case reports/letters/role-
play/ discussion/contribution in groups, etc)

Live Supervision

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 It’s a requirement for Accreditation to include regular live sampling within the supervision arrangement. This
includes live observation, one-way screen, video or audio recording. A variation has been agreed in
circumstances where this is impossible to obtain - e.g., in forensic settings if the employer refuses consent for
visiting supervisor or in learning disability settings where the client is unable to give informed consent. In this
case the supervisor can account for this within the report.

On how many occasions has live supervision

been used in the last 12 months of your !
supervision?

How many cases has this covered? !

How do you measure competency?
(Supervisors are encouraged to use !
competency measures such as CTS-R)

Skills and other areas of development

What specific areas relating to CBT

approaches have been developed and focused
!
on within supervision in the last 12 months?
(please provide brief bullet points)

Within the bounds of confidentiality, please

give an illustrative example
!

Supervisee’s understanding of the therapeutic relationship, and level of competence

Does the applicant understand the development,

maintenance and ending of therapeutic relationships Yes No
within their practice?

Does the applicant work within the appropriate

boundaries of the therapeutic relationship and their Yes No
role/competencies

If No to any of the above, please provide an overview

of problems identified and any steps that you are
!
aware that have been taken to address these.

Supervisee’s understanding of safe and effective practice

Is the Supervisee capable of safe and effective practice with their client
Yes No
population?

Do you have any current or prior concerns about the applicant’s CBT
Yes No
practice?

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 If YES What are the concerns and what is being done to address these
concerns? !
From your knowledge of the Supervisee, do they adhere to the
Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics in the Practice of Yes No
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies?

Would you recommend the Applicant for Accreditation at present? Yes No

If NO, please give details of the changes that would be required.

!
What additional comments can you make about this Supervisee’s
application? !

Supervisor confirmation of extension to First Accreditation Audit submission dates

The Section is for Supervisors providing a report for First Accreditation Audit. Please go to the Declaration
Section if your supervisee did not request an audit extension.

Did your supervisee request an extension to their first accreditation audit submission Not applicable,
date because of a break in practice? they did not have a
period of leave.
This may be due to parental leave, adoption leave, carers leave, sick leave,
compassionate leave such as bereavement, sabbatical, a change to non-clinical role,
practising outside of the UK, its territories or Ireland. This will also apply if they had Yes, I confirm
less than two CBT client contacts a week for more than six weeks. they had a break in
practice due to a
You can still attest that you are aware of this break in practice if it occurred prior to period of leave.
your supervision arrangements

Extension/break in practice dates

Start date: !
End date: !
Additional comments

(e.g. confirmation of several breaks in

practice. You do not need to provide !
any details of the reason for the
break(s) in practice).

Declaration

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 This Report is an honest appraisal of the applicant within the limits of my knowledge of them.
Any areas of concern referred to in the report have been discussed with the applicant.

Supervisor’s Signature: Date:

A typed signature will be accepted.

A typed signature is acceptable. Email your report directly to us at accreditation.reports@babcp.com

The report should be dated within one month of submission of the application. If we do not receive a completed
application from your supervisee within one calendar month of receiving a Supervisor’s Report, the application
and report will be deleted. If you want to discuss anything about completing this report, please contact
accreditation@babcp.com

Note: If you raise concerns, or inform us of any actions the member/supervisee has taken that may be in breach
of our Standards of Conduct Performance and Ethics, this information may be treated as a complaint against the
member. Although you may have been the person to alert us to these concerns, you will not be treated as the
complainant, but as a witness. We may contact you for further information. For further information on our
complaints procedure see here: Complaints and Feedback.