Developing Clinical Supervision for Complementary Therapy Educators

Abstract

To facilitate reflective practice with students of complementary therapy clinical tutors themselves require an understanding and experience of reflective practice. The aim of this study was to implement and evaluate a clinical supervision framework for clinical tutors teaching on the complementary therapy undergraduate program. Clinical supervision was conducted in small groups with a skilled clinical supervisor, and focused on issues arising in the teaching clinic. The evaluation consisted of questionnaires, interviews and focus groups with participants (clinical tutors and clinical supervision facilitators). There is strong evidence that clinical supervision groups offered a supportive learning framework for the clinical tutors, and that this was likely to impact on work with students and patients in a positive way.

Twelve tips for effective clinical supervision based on a narrative literature review and expert opinion

“…This includes discussion regarding the norms, the policies and the procedures of the workplace. It can also include education regarding the professional standards and ethics (Clough 2003;Richardson et al 2003;Winstanley & White 2003;Herkt & Hocking 2007;Simpson & Sparkes 2008;Cox & Araoz 2009;Hall & Cox 2009;Fowler 2011). In a study conducted by Cox and Araoz (2009) with therapists in the UK, 86% of the participants reported using reflective practice within their supervision sessions.…”

A Longitudinal, Comparative Evaluation of Reflective Practice Groups for Nurses Working in Intensive Care and Oncology

“…RP is an important mechanism of professional [36] and personal [37] development for staff working in a range of human service settings [29,33,38]; education [39][40][41], psychology [42], social work [43], other allied health disciplines [29,44], medicine [45,46] and health management [19,47,48]. Most research into RP in nursing occurs in the nurse education sector [1,12,16,39,49] and the majority of articles on nurses in clinical settings address group supervision (GS) for mental health nurses [8,15,[50][51][52].…”