Clinical supervision for the treatment of adults with severe mental illness: pertinent issues when assisting graduate nursing students.
OBJECTIVE
There is little to guide advanced practice nurses to provide supervision for graduate students conducting psychotherapy with persons with serious mental illness. This article provides concrete suggestions for clinical supervision.


CONCLUSIONS
Supervision should focus on assisting students to conduct recovery-based psychotherapy in terms of the therapeutic alliance, methods to provide empathy, collaborative goal setting, the management of countertransference, and the development of self-awareness.


CONCLUSIONS
In providing clinical supervision, preceptors should assist students to become more aware of their own thoughts and feelings as well as stigmatizing beliefs in order to help clients move toward recovery.
Buck
Kelly D
KD
Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Kelly.Buck@va.gov
Lysaker
Paul H
PH
D001364:Awareness; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003379:Countertransference; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011231:Preceptorship; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000193:education