BACKGROUND Uganda introduced a multipronged intervention, the supervision, performance assessment, and recognition strategy (SPARS), to improve medicines management (MM) in public and not-for-profit health facilities. This paper, the first in a series, describes the SPARS intervention and reports on the MM situation in Uganda before SPARS (baseline). METHODS To build MM capacity at health fac...

OBJECTIVE This study compared boys' with girls' hazard-directed behaviors at home when the mother was present and absent from the room. METHODS Videos were coded for how children reacted to a contrived burn hazard ('Gadget'), maternal verbalizations to children about the hazard, and children's compliance with directives to avoid the hazard. Children's behavioral attributes (risk-taking tenden...

PURPOSE Supervision is typically mandatory for therapists in training and plays an important role in their professional development. A number of qualitative studies have considered specific aspects of supervision. This systematic review aimed to synthesize these studies' findings and explore the experience and impact of supervision for trainee therapists. METHODS A systematic search of the li...

This paper consists of a review of mostly nursing literature with the purpose of developing a conceptual framework for understanding the process of clinical supervision and the nature of the supervisory relationship utilizing a psychodynamic perspective. The paper explores the experiences of nurses and health visitors during clinical supervision in order to illustrate how the dynamics of clinic...

This paper takes a new look at the methods of embodiment for psychotherapy supervision. It makes a rigorous distinction between knowledge derived via language and knowledge derived via the body without the intervention of conscious thought and above all language. In an account of a study whereby the principal researcher and her co researchers, all professional practitioners of dance movement ps...

AIM To investigate the nature of clinical supervision. METHOD Within the four-cycle action research approach qualitative data was collected using a range of methods and analyses. RESULTS Several insights were gained into the nature of clinical supervision and the nature of change required to support its introduction. One such insight, was the importance of relationship development. CONCLU...

Providing competent clinical supervision is challenging for the practitioner both in determining supervisee competencies and in conducting the corresponding supervision. Competence, an ethical principle that informs the practice of psychology, refers to requisite knowledge, skills, and values for effective performance. Similar to other health care professions, psychology is increasingly moving ...