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Supervising Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions in Child and Adolescent Mental Health or Education Settings

Module description

Across all psychological interventions in child community mental health or education settings, it is recognised that clinical supervision plays a fundamental role in improving clinical outcomes, supporting practitioners, and ensuring safe and effective practice. In this module you will develop advanced skills, understanding, and mastery of the supervision competencies associated with clinical supervision of evidence-based low-intensity psychological interventions for children and young people's mental health / emotional difficulties within community and education settingsConsiderable opportunity for reflection on your supervisory practice will be afforded to enhance learning and ongoing action planning.

Module aims - intentions of the module

This module will work in line with the national curriculum to equip you with a sound understanding of the process of effective low-intensity supervision practice. The modules primary aims are to develop your advanced knowledge and practice skills of the clinical supervision of children and young people's early intervention mental health practitioners and to support the development and maintenance of reflective practice. We aim to provide you with the didactic, procedural, and reflective skills that will enhance your professional practice and support your autonomous lifelong learning. We also aim to provide a supportive learning environment that fosters your clinical, academic, professional, and personal development.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

ILO: Module-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 1. Synthesise foundational theory and core competencies in planning, delivering, and reflecting on clinical supervision across children and young peoples’ settings
• 2. Demonstrate generic and modality specific competencies in clinical supervision of evidence-based psychological therapies / interventions for children and young people
• 3. Evidence through the practice outcomes document how reflection on your clinical supervision skills influences your practice
• 4. Identify how you meet the relevant national competency standards for clinical supervision in child mental health
• 5. Evidence through the portfolio the demonstration of your clinical supervision skills

ILO: Discipline-specific skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 6. Address systematically complex supervision problems which may be framed within unpredictable contexts, think critically, creatively, and independently, and fully appreciate the complexities of the issues
• 7. Describe the wider ethical and professional issues encountered within clinical supervision

ILO: Personal and key skills

On successfully completing the module you will be able to...

• 8. Appraise your personal strengths and weaknesses in training and experience, and reflect upon the implications for your further training needs
• 9. Give accurate and constructive feedback

Syllabus plan

Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, an example of an overall structure is as follows:

The taught content of this module will be delivered over ten days. These will enhance your clinical skills, personal reflection, and ongoing action planning. The development of your practical understanding in the application of clinical supervision competences will be demonstrated through the various assessment methods.

• Principles of supervision
• Promoting psychological knowledge in supervision
• The use of outcomes data in supervision
• Facilitating therapeutic processes in supervision
• Delivering modality-specific supervision

Learning activities and teaching methods (given in hours of study time)

Details of learning activities and teaching methods

Formative assessment

Summative assessment (% of credit)

Details of summative assessment

Details of re-assessment (where required by referral or deferral)

Re-assessment notes

In all summative submissions, re-assessment will be the same as the original assessment. Where you have been referred/deferred for any form of component detailed above, you will have the opportunity to retake within 4 weeks from the date that feedback was provided. If you pass re-assessments taken as a result of a fail, the overall module mark will be capped at 50%, except for the supervision portfolio and practice outcomes document which will not result in a module cap. If you fail re-assessments, you will be failed in the module and as a consequence you will be failed in the programme and your registration as a student at the University will be terminated.

Indicative learning resources - Basic reading

• Child IAPT National Curriculum (2012). London: Department of Health
• Milne, D. (2009). Evidence-based Clinical Supervision. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Proctor, B. (2000). Group Supervision: A Guide to Creative Practice. London, Sage.
• Roth, A.D. and Pilling, S. (2007). Competencies required to supervise effective psychological therapies.London: HMSO, Department of Health.
• Scaife, J. (2008). Supervision in Clinical Practice; A Practitioner’s Guide. London: Routledge.
• Turpin, G. and Wheeler, S. (2011). IAPT Supervision Guidance. London: Department of Health.

Indicative learning resources - Web based and electronic resources

ELE page - https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3647 (All resources will be made available on ELE. This includes additional material covered in the tutorials, the required readings, information about assessment and additional material (e.g., videos, padlets).

Key words search

Supervision, young people, children, improving access to psychological therapies, educational settings, evidence-based psychological interventions, competency assessment