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SupervisionResource.com is coming later this year...
Now under preparation, SupervisionResource.com will be coming later this year, offering resources for clinical supervisors and supervisees in the mental health professions. While we're still undergoing development, you may find some of the following materials useful, covering clincial supervision and even online supervision:
- Telehealth: A Model for Clinical Supervision In Allied Health (research article)
- Focusing on allied health professions, this 2003 article surveys the remote provision of clinical supervision, particularly for interns in remote areas (and specializing in areas including speech pathology, physical therapy, occupational therapy and psychology). One study mentioned involved a total of 80 clinicians receiving supervision, and a total of over 20,000 e-mails, 1,800 hours of individual phone supervision, 500 hours of group phone consultations, 450 secured fax information forms, 10,000 hours of audio taped sessions, and 500 hours of psychotherapy videotape. The article goes on to explore the limitations of telehealth supervision and to suggest best practices for telehealth supervision.
- Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision, 3rd Edition (book)
- Published in 2003, this book is probably the most widely used textbook in the field of supervision for mental health professionals.
- Clinical Supervision (workshop as PowerPoint slides)
- From Jeffrey K. Edwards, Professor of Counselor Education at Northeastern Illinois University, this workshop preserved on the web in slide form provides a developmental perspective on clinical supervision, exploring developmental stages for both supervisors and clinicians and outlining new research on developing counselor competency and self-efficacy.
- Online Supervision for Social Workers (research article)
- Written by online mental health 'old timer' Gary Stofle and Shavone Hamilton, this paper describes the experiences of the two using online supervision during Hamilton's social work internship, with Stofle as the online supervisor. Published in 1998, the paper is now very dated, but as one of the earliest papers published on online supervision, it's still worth a look.
- Online Counselling and Psychotherapy Resources (website)
- CounsellingResource.com probably provides more information and resources than any other single website dedicated specifically to therapy. Having completed something around 500,000 words worth of email-based online therapy in just one year (2004), it looks like the site's editor has amassed the largest single-practitioner evidence base of any professional working in the field.
- The Online Clinical Case Study Group: An Email Model (research article)
- This article, originally published in 2001 in the journal CyberPsychology and Behavior, reports on the early experiences of an online case study group working via email. After a promising start for the first year after it was formed, activity in the group has reportedly dwindled, and little new has been added in the later papers published by the group.
- ISMHO (website)
- The International Society for Mental Health Online does not offer clinical supervision of any kind, but it includes many members with an interest in online therapy and online mental health; a few members also practice online. While the organization is widely known for its suggested principles for the online provision of mental health services, recently evidence has come to light indicating serious internal ISMHO ethics problems.
- Online-supervision.net (website)
- The last time we checked (October 2005), this online supervision research site, run by the commercial organization 'Group Intervisual', was unavailable more often than not. However, when it is up and running, the site includes some worthwhile usage guidelines on online supervision.
Remember to check back soon for more from SupervisionResource.com!