Reflective Practices & Supervision - Clinical Supervision

Clinical Supervision

Clinical Supervision

Supervision involves reflective dialogue focused on learning from practice. Supervision employs critical reflection to learn. It facilitates the growth of information, skills and knowledge into the development of practice wisdom through the promotion of reflection, reflexiveness and critical thinking. Supervisee goals are achieved through collaboration and interaction. Supervision provides supervisees with an opportunity to engage in reflection that supports them to develop and maintain professional excellence. Clinical supervision is intended to be a relational, positive and engaging experience.

Discussion

Supervision meetings are designed to focus discussion and reflection on a broad range of issues, situations, practice, role and contexts including:

Practice & ethics: ethical dilemmas, the practice context, client cases, interventions, professional practice framework, best practice, professional identity, reporting, evaluation, frameworks, reflections, language framework, skills, knowledge, capabilities, beliefs and values, research, and theory.

Support: self-care: stressors, personal vs professional, team morale and functioning, debriefing, work/life balance, health and well-being, job & role satisfaction, workplace relationships, resilience maintenance, resilience refuelling, vulnerabilities, courage, hope, appreciation, and validation.

Education: professional excellence, conference information/presentations, career planning, qualifications, training needs and achievements, transfer of knowledge into the role, transfer of learning, research, evidence base, competencies, capability frameworks, professional development needs.

Supervision is not a personal counselling or therapy session.