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Supporting our supervisors: a Summary and Discussion of the Special Issue on CBT supervision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2016

Cory F. Newman ,
Robert P. Reiser  and
Derek L. Milne
Cory F. Newman
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania, Center for Cognitive Therapy, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Robert P. Reiser
Affiliation:
Reiser Healthcare Consulting, Kentfield, CA, USA
Derek L. Milne*
Affiliation:
Newcastle University, School of Psychology, Ridley Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
*
*Author for correspondence: Dr D. Milne, Newcastle University, School of Psychology, Ridley Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK (email: derek.milne@ncl.ac.uk).
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Abstract

Contributors to this Special Issue of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist have considered the kind of infrastructure that should be in place to best support and guide CBT supervisors, providing practical advice and extensive procedural guidance. Here we briefly summarize and discuss in turn the 10 papers within this Special Issue, including suggestions for further enhancements. The first paper, by Milne and Reiser, conceptualized this infrastructure in terms of an ‘SOS’ (supporting our supervisors) framework, from identifying supervision competencies, to training, evaluation and feedback strategies. The next nine papers illustrate this framework with specific technical innovations, educational enhancements and procedural issues, or through comprehensive quality improvement systems, all designed to support supervisors. These papers suggest an assortment of workable infrastructure developments: two large-scale and comprehensive initiatives, some promising proposals and technologies, and a series of local, exploratory work. Collectively, they provide us with models for further developing evidence-based cognitive-behavioural supervision, and offer practical suggestions for giving supervisors the tools and support to maximize their supervisees’ learning, and to improve the associated client outcomes. Much research and development work remains to be done, and successful implementation will require institutional and political support, as well as cross-cultural adaptations. We conclude with an optimistic assessment of progress toward addressing some of the infrastructure improvements required to adequately support supervisors.

Keywords

CBTclinical supervisionevidence-based practicetraining
Type
Special Issue: International Developments in Supporting and Developing CBT Supervisors
Information
the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist , Volume 9 , 2016 , e29
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2016 

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