SUPERVISION SESSIONS BY SUPERVISOR

Analysis of Supervision Sessions



Analysis of Supervision Sessions

Introduction

A supervisor is someone who is the leader of a team, overseer, air manager, and facilitator for a company or an area manager for a business or company's department. A supervisor is, expected to instruct and direct the employee towards the achievement of the goal of the company, as the supervisors are, held responsible for their supervisee's low performance making the central focus quality practice. The authority of a supervisor is either from their position in the hierarchy of a company or the community of practice, which is their experience in a profession.

Clinical supervision for health professionals started in other fields as apprenticeships. This would be when an apprentice who would be the student with minimum knowledge and skill would learn the techniques and work by assisting, observing and gaining feedback and criticism from the member who was accomplished in that particular field. The concept behind this was that if the master were skillful and good at what he did, the student would be too by watching and learning. However, this traditional method has had skills, models and techniques added to it since then, which has evolved and developed the technique of supervising (Benner, et.al 2001).

Clinical consultation or supervision is generally, case focused and does not always consider what is being, brought to the intervention by the practitioner and does not encourage the exploring of emotions. It is includes administrative objectives such as reviewing case works, discussing the diagnosis and its impressions, discussing intervention strategy, reviewing treatment plans, reviewing and evaluating the clinical advancement and progress, giving advices and teaching. Effective communication and understanding of all those involved and their needs can be a plus factor for a supervisor. Along with understanding those around, having theoretical, knowledge of supervising models makes the supervisor more skilled at his task as he can shift models according to requirements and ensure he uses the right technique at the right time. To be able to analyze a supervision session, a supervisor should be able to self reflect with the members of the session and be able to add dimension to the knowledge that has been gather through this process.

Interpersonal skills, Communication and Practice Skills that Reflects the Learning Outcomes

Communications skills are the ways and skills applied to ensure effective communication with people. The skills that can be included are that of listening, reading, writing, speaking and nonverbal skill of communication, which involves signs, body language, sounds etc.

Communication skills have been, labeled invaluable for businesses and healthcare centers as communicating and understanding the needs of the clients is the most important step for any institute. No institute can market themselves if they are not aware and not catering to the needs of their clients and customers. Nor could they communicate effectively with their stakeholders and ineffective communication and using skills not appropriate could lead to misunderstandings and issues.

Interpersonal skills the results are positive and the outcome is huge as long ...