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Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research

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01-11-2017 | Original Article

The Juggling Act of Supervision in Community Mental Health: Implications for Supporting Evidence-Based Treatment

Authors: Shannon Dorsey, Michael D. Pullmann, Suzanne E. U. Kerns, Nathaniel Jungbluth, Rosemary Meza, Kelly Thompson, Lucy Berliner

Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | Issue 6/2017

Abstract

Supervisors are an underutilized resource for supporting evidence-based treatments (EBTs) in community mental health. Little is known about how EBT-trained supervisors use supervision time. Primary aims were to describe supervision (e.g., modality, frequency), examine functions of individual supervision, and examine factors associated with time allocation to supervision functions. Results from 56 supervisors and 207 clinicians from 25 organizations indicate high prevalence of individual supervision, often alongside group and informal supervision. Individual supervision serves a wide range of functions, with substantial variation at the supervisor-level. Implementation climate was the strongest predictor of time allocation to clinical and EBT-relevant functions.

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Title: The Juggling Act of Supervision in Community Mental Health: Implications for Supporting Evidence-Based Treatment
Authors: Shannon Dorsey
Michael D. Pullmann
Suzanne E. U. Kerns
Nathaniel Jungbluth
Rosemary Meza
Kelly Thompson
Lucy Berliner
Publication date: 01-11-2017
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research / Issue 6/2017
Print ISSN: 0894-587X
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3289
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-017-0796-z

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