BACKGROUND Quality of supervision is a major predictor for successful PhD projects. A survey showed that almost all PhD students in the Health Sciences in Denmark indicated that good supervision was important for the completion of their PhD study. Interestingly, approximately half of the students who withdrew from their program had experienced insufficient supervision. This led the Research Edu...

Clinical supervision: a concept analysis Clinical supervision is a commonly discussed concept within nursing. There appears to be a common belief that it is a good thing for nursing. Many practitioners, however, are still unsure what clinical supervision is and what is expected of them. A number of definitions and models of supervision have been developed but it remains ill defined. This paper ...

Supervised learning techniques construct predictive models by learning from a large number of training examples, where each training example has a label indicating its ground-truth output. Though current techniques have achieved great success, it is noteworthy that in many tasks it is difficult to get strong supervision information like fully ground-truth labels due to the high cost of data lab...

OBJECTIVE Improving the quality and safety of health care in Australia is imperative to ensure the right treatment is delivered to the right person at the right time. Achieving this requires appropriate clinical governance and support for health professionals, including professional supervision. This study investigates the usefulness and effectiveness of and barriers to supervision in rural and...

Single-mother, single-father, and intact families from homes ranging from low to high supervision are compared to determine the effects of family structure and parent supervision on adolescent alcohol use, illicit drug use, and delinquency. Using adolescent self-reports, scores were derived for adolescent problem behaviors and rates of supervision by resident parent(s). Results indicate that su...

My philosophy of supervision: Gilbert and Evans (2000, p.1) wrote: »Generally, there is agreement that supervision is a learning process in which a psychotherapist engages with a more experienced practitioner in order to enhance their skills in the process of their ongoing professional development. This, in turn, promotes and safeguards the well-being of their clients.” My philosophy of supervi...

The interpersonal behavior therapy, Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP) has been empirically investigated and described in the literature for a little over a decade. Still, little has been written about the process of supervision in FAP. While there are many aspects of FAP supervision shared by other contemporary behavior therapies and psychotherapy in general, there are unique aspects of F...

Earlier this year, the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK published a document setting out standards for training junior doctors. As such documents go, it is clear, comprehensive anddas the GMC might say itselfdfit for purpose. While no-one would be tempted to set it to music, it’s certainly useful to have a standard in writing like the following one: ‘Trainees must be supported to acquire...