Opinions of Australian Psychological Society College Chairs about process and content in supervision training : preliminary investigation in Queensland

Abstract

Few psychologists in Australia have been trained to provide supervision to probationary psychologists. The current
preliminary study investigated whether a supervision training workshop could, in the view of representative psychologists, provide effective training across a range of psychological specialties, or whether separate training was needed for different specialties. The nine Queensland Chairs of the Australian Psychological Society specialisation colleges were given a semistructured
interview to investigate the goals, content and processes of supervision within their specialty, and perceived
relationships with other specialties. Results indicated considerable agreement regarding the content and process of
supervision across specialties, suggesting that supervision has much in common regardless of specialty.