Developing and Implementing Supervisor Training for Clinical Psychologists in the United Kingdom
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https://doi.org/10.18552/ijpblhsc.v4i2.346Keywords:
clinical psychologists, supervision, supervisor trainingAbstract
Engagement in supervision is a professional requirement for clinical psychologists in the UK (Division of Clinical Psychology 2014). There is, however, little guidance regarding how psychologists should be taught the skills required to be a supervisor, or how these skills should be evaluated. This article starts by reviewing the development of national guidance for the training of clinical psychologists as supervisors. Nationally agreed learning objectives for supervisor training are presented. The article then describes how this guidance was operationalised within a region of the UK, and how this has been developed over a number of years. The training and its evaluation processes are outlined and mapped against the learning objectives, with suggestions for future developments.
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