Supervision resources for mental health alcohol and other drugs workers
Supervision plays a vital role. It strengthens safety, boosts quality of care, fosters new skills, and helps to restore and build resilience in frontline mental health alcohol and other drugs workers.
What we offer
The Queensland Centre for Mental Health Learning (Learning Centre) connects you with resources for effective supervision. We provide a mix of:
- eLearning
- online workshops
- face-to-face workshops
- and the tools, templates and other resources useful for effectively applying supervision in practice.
Our courses cater to both introductory and extended levels to meet the needs of all workers, through practical and experiential training in reflective supervision.
Learning Centre Supervision courses
Our courses are offered in sequence, and you must login to access them:
- QC60 Introduction to Supervision - eLearning
- QC8 Supervisee - workshop (face-to-face and online)
- QC4 Supervisor - workshop (face-to-face)
- QC12 Supervising Supervisors - workshop (face-to-face)
Course progression
This course relationship diagram shows how our courses relate and build upon each other. Starting with QC60 eLearning (and accompanied by relevant experience over time), you can enhance your skills and knowledge as you progress through each stage.
Workshop availability
- For workshop dates, check the online calendar
- eLearning is available at any time.
Supervision resources, tools and templates
The Learning Centre offers a range of tools and templates for your supervision toolkit following the 5 stages discussed in our courses. Download and use these in your practice after learning about their use via training.
Stage 1. Assessment
- Supervision Self-assessment Checklist: Questions to ask yourself when considering your supervision needs (pdf 394Kb)
- Assess Potential Supervisor Checklist: Questions about a potential supervisors knowledge and experience (pdf 391Kb)
- Post-interview Reflection Checklist: Questions to use for self-reflection about the fit between yourself and a potential supervisor (pdf 391Kb)
Stage 2. Agreement
- Supervision agreement (word 64Kb)
Stage 3. Engagement
- Record of supervision meetings (word 35Kb)
- Supervision: Linking learning goals and tasks (word 36Kb)
- Agenda for supervision session (word 38Kb)
- Reflective supervision report (word 39Kb)
Stage 4. Evaluation
- Generic Supervision Assessment Tool - Supervisee (GSAT-SE) (writeable pdf 2272Kb)
- Generic Supervision Assessment Tool - Supervisor (GSAT-SR) (writeable pdf 1872Kb)
- Generic Supervision Assessment Tool - Third Party Assessor (GSAT-A) (writeable pdf 2300Kb)
- For more information on GSAT tools including a user manual, alternative pdf version tools visit the GSAT resources website
- Leeds alliance in supervision scale (word 38Kb)
Stage 5. Ending
No templates required here.
Supervision Guidelines
Our supervision training is underpinned by:
- Supervision Guidelines for Mental Health Alcohol and Other Drugs Services 2023 (QH-GDL-977:2023)
- Listening More: Embedding Cultural Safety in Supervision - A Guide for Psychology Supervisors
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reflective Yarning (pending publication)
- Clinical Supervision Framework for Queensland Nurses and Midwives (Queensland Health, 2021) (Note: Accessible via QHEPS only
- Peer Practice Supervision Framework (pending publication)
Supporting academic literature
- An evaluative study of clinical supervision based on Proctor's three function interactive model (Bowles, 2001) (pdf 105Kb)
- Clinical supervision of mental health services: a systematic review of supervision characteristics and practices associated with formative and restorative outcomes (Bradley, 2021) (pdf 901Kb)
- Routledge Handbook of Clinical Supervision (Cutcliffe, Hyrkas and Fowler, 2011) (pdf 3.72MB)
- Understanding supervisee nondisclosures in supervision with videorecording review and interpersonal process recall (Foskett, 2020) (pdf 295Kb)
- Using restorative supervision to help nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic (Griffiths, 2022) (pdf 164Kb)
- Supporting conscious competency: Validation of the Generic Supervision Assessment Tool (Hamilton, 2021) (pdf 353Kb)
- Cultural Humility in Psychotherapy Supervision (Hook, 2016) (pdf 79Kb)
- Training Public Sector Clinicians in Competency-Based Clinical Supervision: Methods, Curriculum, and Lessons Learned (Hutman, 2021)
- A Comparison of Beginning and Expert Supervisors' Supervision Cognitions (Kemer, 2020) (pdf 824Kb)
- A naturalistic, observational study of the Seven-Eyed model of supervision (McMahon, 2022) (pdf 1,067Kb)
- Learning through reflection (Wain, 2017) (pdf 178Kb)
- Multicultural Streaming in Group Psychotherapy Supervision: Orientation to and Preparation for Culturally Humble Practice (Watkins, 2021) (pdf 484Kb)
- Guidance for providing effective feedback in clinical supervision in postgraduate medical education: a systematic review (Weallans, 2021) (pdf 1,540Kb)
- Supervisors' Perceptions of Their Integration of Strength-Based and Multicultural Approaches to Supervision (Wiley, 2021) (pdf 152Kb)
- Gibbs' reflective cycle (Wain, 2017) (pdf 327Kb)
More information
For further details on Learning Centre Supervision training and resources or to provide feedback please contact:
- Phone: 0436 613 469 (Mon-Fri business hours)
- Email: qcmhl@health.qld.gov.au
