Supervision

Supervision Contract

The supervision contract integrates all the components of supervision and addresses the ethical standard of informed consent. This informed consent document combines the expected competencies of the setting and the supervisor with the supervisee’s self-assessment to ensure an integrated plan for supervision. The contract lays out the expectations for supervisor and supervisee roles and responsibilities, and the goals and tasks to achieve them specific to the supervisee (making this a “living document” that is modified with the supervisee’s progress to achieve goals and formulate new ones). The contract lays out the duties of the supervisor, including protection of the client as the highest priority, clarification of the supervisor’s multiple and potentially conflicting roles of client protection and gatekeeper for the profession, and balanced with the role of enhancing and facilitating the growth and development of competence of the supervisee. The contract clarifies the potential role conflicts the supervisor and supervisee may encounter as the supervisor performs these multiple roles” (p 1036).

Falender, C. A. & Shafranske, E. P. (2014). Clinical supervision: The state of the art. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 70(11), 1030-1041.