WHAT IS CLINICAL SUPERVISION? | What good looks like and common issues

What is clinical supervision, and how do assistant psychologists and trainee clinical psychologists use it effectively? In today’s video I’m going to lay out the basics of what clinical supervision is, what good likes like, and what to bring to supervision.

I am also going to speak about some of the common issues. As assistant psychologists or trainee clinical psychologists, we experience a HUGE power differential with our supervisors (who are usually very experienced and qualified clinical psychologists). This can really make it difficult to speak up and know what to do.

In the video I reference various documents and guidelines:

BPS Practice guidelines (covers supervision, and work done by trainees and assistants)
https://www.bps.org.uk/sites/www.bps....

For trainee clinical psychologists:
https://www.bps.org.uk/sites/beta.bps...

For assistant psychologist:
https://nanopdf.com/download/attached...

Article “Guidelines vs Reality”
https://acpuk.org.uk/guidelines_versu...

Some other FAB info which maybe of use is an article by @psychassist
https://psychassistblog.wordpress.com...

0:00 Introduction and set up
1:40 What is clinical supervision?
4:57 What does good look like?
9:55 What do I bring to supervision?
12:51 Common issues (intro)
16:17 Being micromanaged
18:16 Too much responsibility
21:11 Supervision isn't really happening
22:48 Supervisory relationship has broken down
24:43 Ciao for now!!!