CLINICAL SUPERVISOR SELF-EVALUATION

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Your self-evaluation of supervision-related skills, abilities, and attitudes may give you opportunities to recognize things you would like to improve as a supervisor and a chance to plan your next steps in development as a supervisor.

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GOOD

COULD STAND IMPROVEMENT

My attitude about supervision

Comfort with the responsibility of supervising

Introduction of supervisee to supervision, and setting of goals (take enough time? help supervisee to be candid and at ease?)

Establishing supervision "contract"--agreeing on the basic elements and goals of the supervision, in writing if needed or desired

Not supervising when interfering dual relationships exist

Assessment of supervisee in order to plan specific learning

Confidence in my abilities with regard to supervising

My authority in directing the actions of supervisees

My authority regarding caseload, case assignments, relative to that of the system (clinic, etc.)

Clarity about my model of supervision

Clarity about the type of supervisory relationship I want to have

Ability to nurture supervisee's trust in me

Providing appropriate support for supervisee

Keeping supervision appointments and providing amounts of supervision promised

Protecting supervision time (not answering phone, etc. )

Protecting supervisee's privacy

Balance of making supervisee feel safe versus reporting problems to training director or management

Ability to quickly identify case issues in supervision

Ability to teach/advise in response to case problems/difficulties

Ability to supervise adequately all of the types of clinical activities that I am expected to supervise

Ability to help supervisee connect theory with practice

Demonstrating and modeling useful clinical skills

Keeping up-to-date in knowledge about all of supervisee's cases

Ability to identify supervisees' counter transference issues

Ability to discuss counter transference issues comfortably and productively

Ability to supervise with respect to client diversity

Knowledge about ethical/legal matters for use in supervision

Knowledge of licensing requirements for supervision (hours, clinical experiences, etc.)

Encouraging professional identity development of supervisee

Providing a good role model as a professional psychologist

Encouraging high standards for mental health care

Encouraging high ethical standards

Ability to confront supervisee with needed feedback

Ability to discuss my relationship with supervisee, when needed

Ability to handle supervisees' transference feelings toward me

Handling my own negative and positive feelings toward supervisees

Ability to give useful oral feedback to supervisee

Ability to give useful written feedback to supervisee

Ability to separate my emotional reactions to supervisees from objective reality when evaluating supervisees

Ability to evaluate supervisees on job requirements and professional consensus regarding desirable behaviors and traits, rather than with respect to my own values and preferences

Comfort tolerating supervisee's inadequacies / problems during the learning process

Comfort implementing remediation plan

Comfort requiring tapes, process recording, etc. of supervisee

Taking the time to use tapes, process recordings to create learning value for supervisees

Comfort dealing with supervisees' ethical / professional criticisms of agency