The Juggling Act of Supervision in Community Mental Health: Implications for Supporting Evidence-Based Treatment.
Supervisors are an underutilized resource for supporting evidence-based treatments (EBTs) in community mental health. Little is known about how EBT-trained supervisors use supervision time. Primary aims were to describe supervision (e.g., modality, frequency), examine functions of individual supervision, and examine factors associated with time allocation to supervision functions. Results from 56 supervisors and 207 clinicians from 25 organizations indicate high prevalence of individual supervision, often alongside group and informal supervision. Individual supervision serves a wide range of functions, with substantial variation at the supervisor-level. Implementation climate was the strongest predictor of time allocation to clinical and EBT-relevant functions.
University of Washington, Seattle, USA. dorsey2@uw.edu.|Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Guthrie Hall, Box 351525, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA. dorsey2@uw.edu.
Shannon
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6240-0294
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Dorsey
University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
Michael D
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Pullmann
University of Denver, Denver, USA.
Suzanne E U
SEU
Kerns
University of Washington, Seattle, USA.|Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Guthrie Hall, Box 351525, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Nathaniel
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Jungbluth
University of Washington, Seattle, USA.|Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Guthrie Hall, Box 351525, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Rosemary
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Meza
University of Washington, Seattle, USA.|Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Guthrie Hall, Box 351525, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
Kelly
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Thompson
University of Washington, Seattle, USA.|Harborview Center for Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress, Seattle, USA.
Lucy
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Berliner
D000288:Administrative Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D055317:Evidence-Based Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
Community mental health; Evidence-based treatment supervision; Implementation climate